But what about the rivers, forests, lakes, and swamps that provide our air, water and food?
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Back on the mainland, we head south, through the eerie primeval swamps of the Cockscomb Basin.
It is the bubbles coming to the surface of water in swamps and sloughs.
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Now, the economy swamps all other priorities, even the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The fevered swamps of a pre-election season are no time to be taking such portentous steps.
Iraq's terrain, by contrast, ranges from mountains to swamps, and many fields have no water nearby.
That number swamps by many factors the competition, which includes video services at The Walt Disney Co.
The farm workers toil under vast seas of plastic sheeting that swamps the landscape in every direction.
The cash position gets used for short-term positions in options, futures and complicated swamps and dollar forwards.
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Swamp: low-lying areas that are frequently flooded and support vegetation adapted to saturated soils e.g. mangrove swamps.
European settlers drained many swamps when they began farming this area, resulting in a loss of wetland habitat.
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Wetlands: low-lying areas that are frequently flooded and which support vegetation adapted to saturated soils e.g. mangrove swamps.
The driver was born near here, and he remembers swamps where bandits hid.
Destroying the other, or feeling destroyed by them, totally swamps desire for self-improvement.
Sivak said that the 14 percent drop in his index swamps the four percent increase in drivers over the period.
State wildlife officials say there may be as many as 100, 000 Burmese pythons living in the vast swamps outside Miami.
Cambridge Brewing Company's Weekapaug Gruit, made with locally plucked bog myrtle, says there is more to Massachusetts swamps than cranberries.
Rugged mountains, swamps, mossy dense rainforests, a long coastline, tiny market villages, volcanic fjords, rainforests and reefs, and truly wild parties.
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He points out that rocks from contemporary swamps in North America show little separation between the glass globules and the iridium.
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Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) another pursed face in hat strings fell into West African swamps, and exchanged fetishes and fish for hairpins and alcohol.
There was a port here then, but the sea has since receded, and in its place are swamps, roses, dust, and vineyards.
Jewelry, bar and coin demand swamps industrial use nearly 9 times over.
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In April of 2000, a man named Gemini Wink was hiking through the swamps near Tampa, Florida, looking to take pictures of alligators.
These activities shift capital into projects that have little or no long-term value, such as speculative real-estate developments in the swamps of Florida.
Shell's local subsidiary is the top foreign oil producer in the Niger Delta, an oil-rich region of mangroves and swamps about the size of Portugal.
Rather than shunt aside for studied deliberation, the information deluge from smartphones and tablets swamps recipients, at times obscuring time worn principles and hyperventilating markets.
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One theory is that a cooling event at the end of the Eocene dried up swamps and rivers, forcing animals out on to the land.
Peat is formed from decayed vegetation in bogs, moors or swamps.
Its mangrove swamps hide lagoons that invite kayakers to explore.
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