It worked, but at a great ecological price.
Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of one of this country's great ecological disasters.
Copepods are of great ecological importance, providing food for many species of fish.
The great ecological crash will be worse, because nature doesn't do bailouts.
During the great heydays of capitalism – the last two centuries of spectacular development and growth – we lived in what the great ecological economist Herman Daly called a "full world" of resources.
One of the 20th century's great ecological disasters has been partly reversed, according to a report that claims the waters are rising once more in part of the Aral sea.
Her latest causes include campaigning for gun control and against fracking – the extraction of natural gas by cracking open shale rocks below the Earth's surface under high pressure and at great ecological cost.
In the case of Darwin's moth, it has taken a whole series of studies over a huge period of time to provide conclusive evidence of one of the great ecological and evolutionary predictions in the field.
In North America the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska, caused great ecological and economic damage, though it ranks well below the largest oil-tanker spills in history if measured by the amount of oil spilled (37,000 metric tons).
Lake Balkhash, a large water body of Kazakhstan, is of great ecological, economic and social significance.
Intra-specific diversity may be of great ecological significance for ecotypic adaptation.
