Sentence examples for tropical lands from inspiring English sources

The development of land-clearing machinery and surface-drainage techniques has made it possible to clear and drain tropical lands for agricultural production.

Last year, at least 250 million people contracted the disease, the United Nations estimates, and almost half the world's population is at risk, mainly in poorer tropical lands.

They make sure to exercise, avoid certain foods and, when traveling abroad, take whatever precautions their doctors recommend, like bringing along insect repellent to tropical lands and iodine tablets to purify tap water in places where bottled water is hard to find.

Arriving in Marseilles in 1913, at the age of 26, he posed for a photographer wearing "a mauve frock coat and a white solar topee" — the proper headgear for "British colonialists in tropical lands," as Phyllis Birnbaum writes in "Glory in a Line," her engaging portrait of the artist as cultural chameleon.

These tropical lands are hot, humid and fertile; they are rich in fruit, seafood and spices; and they are deeply influenced by their thousands of miles of coastline, which stimulated a centuries-old culinary interchange with ships from China, India and Europe.

Large areas of tropical lands are being removed from agriculture and restored to address conservation goals.

"And then they saw this green and tropical land.

BODO, Nigeria — Big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land.

Foreign governments and investors are increasingly on the lookout to buy cheap, well-watered tropical land.

Drainage systems on newly reclaimed tropical land require special attention while the soils are stabilizing, and some reconstruction is often needed after the soil stabilization is complete.

While this is offset somewhat by forest regrowth, which annually absorbs about 1.6 billion tons of carbon, over all, shifts in tropical land use, like clearing land for agriculture, is still emitting 1.3 billion tons annually.