Sentences with phrase «destroying fertile soil»
Beginning around 1665, a series of sandstorms like nothing seen before buffeted the island, burying homes, destroying fertile soil, and eventually forcing the townspeople to flee.
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(18 June 2015) By the time you've read this, 9,378 m ² of fertile soil has been destroyed.
Farmers in parts of Greece claimed visits from «strange flying saucers» destroyed their plains of fertile crops when they floated down from the sky leaving behind holes in the soil.
From Australia to the Sahara & Sahel to the deserts of the Middle East & northwest India to the American West, human activity has destroyed fertile grasslands, and exposed the underlying soil to erosion by winds and rivers.