Sentences with phrase «destroying large swaths»

«We are also working on an engineered ubiquitin that targets a corn virus responsible for destroying large swaths of corn fields in North America, with colleagues in Manitoba,» says Zhang.

For example, Kenya is suffering from a shortage of maize, in part because a drought has destroyed large swathes of local farmers» crops.

Such methods may in fact exacerbate bad breath by drying out the mouth and can allow species that cause gum disease and other infection to take over by destroying large swathes of native bacteria that are not responsible for producing bad odors.

The first 1983 version of the exhibition - which included art by Conner, Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick and George Herms - pulled work from 1955 and beyond that spoke to a»60s flight to the suburbs and the so - called urban renewal that destroyed large swaths of the Fillmore.

Climate change and arsonists have been blamed for fires destroying large swathes of forest, but there is little talk of what the forest department should have done

But these same technologies mean that even if we destroy large swaths of wilderness and drain our rivers and lakes, we will still be able to eat and drink.

Not exact matches

Feral pigs eat the flammable, invasive grasses that now cover large swaths of the islands; without them, fires could become more common and destroy more native habitat than the pigs do themselves.