Sentence examples for hold soils from inspiring English sources

This is a precarious existence, because both increased erosion, which wipes out plants, and human efforts to recapture coasts, which involve much greater plant growth to hold soils in place, can both spell disaster for the butterfly.

Huge banana trees are costly to spray, and they hold soil in place.

Once completed, the storage facilities would hold soil and other contaminated waste for up to 30 years, local reports said.

The weed has also led to erosion because it does not hold soil as well as native grasses.

Gravity, able to overcome the cohesive forces that hold soil particles together, can cause the entire soil profile to move downslope a phenomenon called mass movement.

And orchid pots, with slits or holes in the sides to accommodate oxygen-loving roots, don't easily hold soil or anything but wood chips for potting orchids.

Now, stone retaining walls hold soil and plants in place, and an ingenious drainage system designed by Vollmer Associates of New York channels torrential downpours away from the pond.

In the absence of plants with roots to hold soil in place, Cambrian lands in general probably eroded more rapidly than they do now.

With no way for grass to grow atop the levee to hold soil, they were covering the new work in heavy sheets of black plastic and securing them with sandbags tossed off a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle.

Once shrubs and grasses have been cleared from the land, there are no roots to hold soil, nutrients and water in place.

They learned -- or, in some cases, reminded themselves--that trees hold soil in place so the rivers that are a source of drinking water for people remain clean.