Sentence examples for shrinking wetlands from inspiring English sources

Some of the money seems likely to go toward rectifying problems that predate the spill, like shrinking wetlands.

Even so, there are hints of renewal, and federal officials are hoping to pump more than $100 million into a project that will both provide flood protection and restore a swath of the state's shrinking wetlands.

The Mississippi River Delta and the Gulf of Mexico, where the changes we've made to river flow and the pollution we've added to their environs have helped shrink important wetlands and barrier islands and helped spawn huge summertime dead zones.

Moreover, by some estimates, as much as 50% of the wetlands acreage along the Eastern Seaboard has already been lost in recent decades, with some wetlands shrinking due to natural causes such as sea level rise but many others falling victim to human development.

The violations he recorded in his report included shrinking lakes and wetlands, as well as reclaimed land upon which parking lots, temples, slums and even a road had been constructed.

A spatio-temporal analysis has shown that the lake and adjacent wetlands are shrinking in a fast pace.

/ Where homeless weep, and wetlands shrink... / Our priorities just stink, I think".

From the study, we concluded that wetlands had been shrinking in area and fragmented and partly accounted for decline and even extinctions of waterbirds during the nearly 50 years during the study period.

Wetland have been shrinking rapidly in area and degrading in functioning.

Owing to land reclamation, these D. angustifolia wetland ecosystems are rapidly shrinking on the landscape, threatening ecosystem functioning and regional ecological security.

Ripples passed over the wetland, not outward but in, circles decreasing, shrinking to that point where the shaft entered the ground.