Soil

The lagoon is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin.

Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged.

There is a reason why few large, rich cities, if any, have undeveloped wetlands in their midst.

The soil is rich in silt, making the plain one of the most intensely farmed areas of the world.

Syria claims that, as a result of exposure to these air masses, wet and dry depositions of pollutants occurred over its south eastern territories.

Reforms, after all, are not hothouse plants that can be transplanted at will in any soil.

The star also represents the island itself a land of often red soil bordered by white beaches in a blue sea.

Many concepts essential to understanding soil come from individuals not identifiable strictly as soil scientists.

The history of Europe was full of examples of xenophobia and intolerance being propagated to create fertile ground for subsequent violence.

But the land was of clay soil and inaccessible in the rain there was no good road.

Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and safely return a sample of lunar soil back to Earth.

And you can actually get optimal nutritional yield by running a kind of high quality liquid soil over plants' root systems.

The most common use in bread is in rolls or buns (sämpylä) or in flat soft bread pieces similar to ruispalat or reissumies rye breads.

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth

And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth

She points to her son and brothers next to her, their clothes still damp and encrusted with sea salt from the crossing.

These have been processed by wet or dry methods for removing the outer pulp and mucilage, and have an intact wax layer on the outer surface.

We worked with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to grow endangered frogs the Oregon spotted frog for later release into protected wetlands.

This information can be used to determine if the material is ready for use, unexpectedly wet or dry, or otherwise in need of further inspection.

The islands are low wetlands, elevated above the lake surface on average by only 1 2 m (maximum 4.5 m) and therefore suffer from floods.

If you can drop this recipe on the map on a sandy soil, on a clay soil, on a steep slope, on flat soil, you put those different recipes if you combine them, out of that comes a business plan, comes a work plan, and you can optimize it for the amount of labor you have available or for the amount of fertilizer you have, and you can do it.

Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings.

South Shore communities are built along protected wetlands of the island and contain white sandy beaches of Outer Barrier Islands fronting on the Atlantic Ocean.

During the Pleistocene Epoch, continental ice sheets depressed the land surface (see Hudson Bay), scooped out thousands of lake basins, and carried away much of the region's soil.

You can think of these as neighborhoods, as distinctive as TriBeCa and the Upper East Side and Inwood that these are the forest and the wetlands and the marine communities, the beaches.

On the ground or damp concrete, grain can spoil in as little as three days, and the grain might have to be dried before it can be milled.

As many of Lebanon s poorest are Shia, this provides fertile ground for Hezbollah recruiters.

Immediately north of the ancient port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv lies on land that used to be sand dunes and as such has relatively poor soil fertility.

Canopy soil can occur up to a meter deep, hundreds of feet above the ground, and there are organisms in this soil that have, as yet, no names.

5.2 With regard to the conditions of detention, the Committee takes note of the author's uncontested allegation that he was kept in a wet and dirty cell without a bed, table or any sanitary facilities.

Moreover, the Ramsar Secretariat has added to its list of Ramsar sites several significant sites in arid, semi arid and sub humid areas in Algeria, Morocco, Mali and Niger.

The American occupiers of Iraq, through their policy of de Baathification, left Iraq without an army or a government, which proved to be fertile ground for Sunni insurgents, al Qaeda, and violent Shia groups.

It has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance, one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists.

2.6 On 31 May 1985, the author was arrested and taken from Bamenda (Ambazonia) to Yaoundé, where he was detained in a wet and dirty cell without a bed, table or any sanitary facilities.

In the great majority of regions featuring arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas, one of the major weaknesses of the monitoring evaluation systems is that they are not always designed to make optimum use of the existing equipment.

Iran states that its territory was exposed to wet deposition from approximately 350,000 tonnes of soot, as well as nitrogen and sulphur oxides, organic carbons, heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the oil well fires in Kuwait.

On wetlands, he mentioned a floating agriculture technique for growing vegetables on floating rafts, called baira, traditionally practiced in southern districts but recently introduced in other wetland areas through environment and development projects.

The real complications arose in extreme environments such as the River Danube delta, a waterland without roads, where health systems serving a large population required more complex satellite and telecommunications support.

A mixture of instability, government weakness, and ideology in countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Nigeria are providing fertile territory for terrorists to organize, train, and mount operations much as they did in Afghanistan did a decade ago.

In that sense, bin Laden hoped that the US would be lured into a bloody war in Afghanistan, similar to the Soviet intervention two decades earlier, which had created such a fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.

It's not a particularly great metaphor in these times, especially if you live around the Gulf of Mexico, but I would, perhaps, adapt this metaphor slightly, and I would say that data is the new soil.

They said We did not break our promise to you of our own will , but we were made to carry the loads of ornaments belonging to the people , which we threw ( into the fire ) , and so did Sameri .