The groundwater act, passed in 2014, aims to ensure a more sustainable use of groundwater after years of over-pumping, which depleted basins and eroded water quality in some rural areas.
—
Lisa M. Krieger,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
From obscurity to fame Pandas once roamed a vast swath of China, along with parts of northern Myanmar and Vietnam, but human encroachment and climate change shrank the habitat of the bamboo-munching bears to just six mountain ranges above the Sichuan basin, deep in China’s hinterland.
While Florida beaches get praised for looking like the Caribbean and having out-of-this-world blue waters, beaches in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia have to work a little harder to earn their fans.
Courtesy Kellie Carlson And the attack has left no fear of the ocean's depths.
—
Morgan Chesky,
NBC News,
31 Dec. 2024
Beneath the ocean’s surface, at depths of up to 1,200 meters, the blobfish looks more like a typical fish, with a soft, plump body suited for life under immense pressure.
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Share