Sentence examples for devastating mountain from inspiring English sources

Dozens of people are feared dead after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy, devastating mountain villages, with residents fleeing into the streets and blackouts near the epicentre.

Colorado had its first broad view of the destruction caused for the first time since the devastating mountain floods began on Wednesday.

Charles Colver, forest manager, said the original facility grew out of a devastating mountain fire in 1919; the research direction was beneficially altered by a fire in 1960, and smog damage to the forest in recent years has stimulated experimentation and yielded important findings about effects on plants, streams and ground water.

"A true civilization does not devastate mountains and rivers, nor does it ruin villages or kill people" [ 19].

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) — Floods and landslides devastated several mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, killing at least 257 people as torrents of water and mud swept through the region, burying many families as they slept.

Floods and landslides devastated several mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro yesterday, killing at least 257 people as water and mud swept through the region, burying many families as they slept.

Vedanta tried repeatedly to insist that the mine would help bring "development" to the Dongria, but seemed to overlook the fact that the construction of an open-pit mine would devastate their mountain, therefore achieving little in the form of development for the tribe.

Mountaintop removal mining is devastating the Appalachian mountains in the US.

It hadn't erupted since 1823, but like his father and grandfather, he knew that an eruption could melt the ice and send devastating floods down the mountain.

Drought was devastating the normally fertile mountains, and desperate people had packed up their belongings and descended to the coast.

Angry mountains and devastating floods have long been central to the folklore of the Nisqually Indians of Puget Sound and the Mount Rainier area.