Rainforest in sentence

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And by linking these together, we could have 90 percent of the site as a rainforest, instead of only 10 percent of scrubby trees and bits of road around buildings.

Or for that matter, if you look at the genetic level, 60 percent of medicines were prospected, were found first as molecules in a rainforest or a reef.

The western border of the boreal in British Columbia is marked by the Coast Mountains, and on the other side of those mountains is the greatest remaining temperate rainforest in the world, the Great Bear Rainforest, and we'll discuss that in a few minutes in a bit more detail.

So the Great Bear Rainforest is just over the hill there, within a few miles, we go from these dry boreal forests of 100-year-old trees, maybe 10 inches across, and soon, we're in the coastal temperate rainforest, rain-drenched, 1,000-year-old trees, 20 feet across, a completely different ecosystem.

And the Great Bear Rainforest is generally considered to be the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world.

It could destroy the Great Bear Rainforest, the largest temperate rainforest in the world.

Instead, we find more life and diversity and density than in the tropical rainforest.

If we come back to the same place in 2001, what we're going to find is that these roads spurt off more roads, and more roads after that, at the end of which is a small clearing in the rainforest where there are going to be a few cows.

Let's come back again a few years later, here in 2003, and we'll see that that landscape actually looks a lot more like Iowa than it does like a rainforest.

If you look at carbon dioxide from burning tropical rainforest, or methane coming from cows and rice, or nitrous oxide from too many fertilizers, it turns out agriculture is 30 percent of the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere from human activity.

Since I'm already in the tropics, I chose "Tropical rainforest."

And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it.

This is a picture of Tim, who, right when I snapped this picture, reminded me, he said, "Jessica, the last lab group I worked in I was doing fieldwork in the Costa Rican rainforest, and things have changed dramatically for me."

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

I was born on a farm, a farm that was more than 50 percent rainforest [still].

When I was a kid, it was more than 50 percent rainforest.

When we received the land, it was less than half a percent rainforest, as in all my region.

She said, why don't you put back the rainforest that was here before?

And so does every wild habitat on the planet, like the Amazon rainforest you're hearing behind me.

Well, when we built our first prototype drone, our main objective was to fly it over a remote rainforest in North Sumatra, Indonesia, to look for the nest of a species of great ape known as the orangutan.

A third and perhaps most exciting way of using these drones is to fly them to a really remote, never-explored-before rainforest somewhere hidden in the tropics, and parachute down a tiny spy microphone that would allow us to eavesdrop on the calls of mammals, birds, amphibians, the Yeti, the Sasquatch, Bigfoot, whatever.

This is what a rainforest might look like as you fly over it in a hot air balloon.

This is how we see a rainforest, in kaleidoscopic color that tells us that there are many species living with one another.

So our imagery is 3D, it's chemical, it's biological, and this tells us not only the species that are living in the canopy, but it tells us a lot of information about the rest of the species that occupy the rainforest.

My second question: How do we prepare for climate change in a place like the Amazon rainforest?

So what we've been doing is using the laser-guided spectroscopy from the CAO to map for the first time the biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest.

So these tiny phytoplankton, collectively, weigh less than one percent of all the plants on land, but annually they photosynthesize as much as all of the plants on land, including the Amazon rainforest that we consider the lungs of the planet.

In the wild, picture a lush tropical rainforest living the guts of these monkeys.

Picture a rainforest that's been burned to the ground and taken over by a few invasive species.

This next image that I'm showing you is a map of the Amazon rainforest.

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