Sentence examples for ecologically devastating from inspiring English sources
Though the Exxon Valdez spill is only the world's fifty-seventh largest, it was ecologically devastating.
Across the globe, from the Amazon to the Gulf of Mexico, oil formed from the burial, millions of years ago, of algae and plankton has been spilt and spread around the terrestrial surface with ecologically devastating consequences.
The pervasive and ecologically devastating human encroachment of recent decades has critically endangered Indian wildlife.
A few weeks later, when the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo oil disaster demonstrated how ecologically devastating this type of drilling can be, Obama's previous pandering to Big Oil didn't look so brilliant after all.
Also screening Saturday are Catherine Pancake's "Black Diamonds," a study of the ecologically devastating method of coal mining known as "mountaintop removal," and "Exposed," Heidrun Holzfeind's documentary on people suffering from multiple chemical sensitivities.
15 Those products—never intended for use in oil spills turned out to be ecologically devastating, Aurand says.
Many of the animals and plants found here no longer survive on the ecologically devastated Haitian side.
Although certain species may be at severe risk from the remaining oil, many others, such as sea turtles, do not seem to be under great threat, and the marsh as a whole does not appear to be ecologically devastated.
Ecologically, invasive large predators are always bad news, taking a devastating toll on naïve native prey and scrambling ecosystems.
The region's majestic mountain ash trees are the tallest flowering plants in the world, occasionally topping 100m, but a heavily subsidised logging industry, along with bushfires such as the devastating Black Saturday fires of 2009, have reduced the ecologically vital old growth trees to just 1% of the forest area.
As research is just starting to uncover, the loss of an apex predator in a marine ecosystem can have cascading, unpredictable and ecologically-devastating consequences.
