Rising sea levels (see ya, Florida; so long, Boston), spreading disease, intense droughts, wild floods, extreme storms, record fire seasons -- I mean, you already know the tune.
Kal Naismith, one of their replacements, was dismissed for a wild tackle on Flood.
Unknown for more than 1,000 years except to wild animals, insects, flood waters, prodigious foliage and perhaps the local Bhil people, this magnificent work of art, architecture and contemplation, was abandoned by those who created it as long ago as AD 500.
However, wild plants from flood-prone environments have evolved in frequently flooded environments and therefore possess unique traits that facilitate growth and reproduction during and after flooding stress.
Wild plants from flood-prone areas have evolved in a selective environment that favours flood-adaptive traits.
Capturing the hearts of the audience is crucial at a time when reports of dwindling populations of wild species are flooding our inboxes.
The atomic option is perhaps the wildest among a flood of ideas proposed by bloggers, scientists and other creative types who have deluged government agencies and BP, the company that drilled the well, with phone calls and e-mail messages.
Flooding, wild fires and earthquakes are on his list.
Consider, e. g., Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina; the wild fires and colossal floods in Colorado; the die-off of pine trees across the Rocky Mountains; the historic floods across the Midwest; deepening droughts in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma; and record heat waves in Alaska.
Despite this variation in adaptive traits in wild plant species, research on flood survival mechanisms has been mostly limited to flood-tolerant rice cultivars and the flood-intolerant model plant Arabidopsis.
