Word: marshlands
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...images and newspaper pictures didn't prepare me for this mutilated landscape. The epicenter of the earthquake lies in Gujarat's western-most region, where the cotton fields of Saurashtra give way to the dusty plains of the rann, an 18,000-sq-km expanse that once was a marshland on the shores of the Arabian Sea but is now practically desert. The sparse vegetation is more brown than green. This inhospitable terrain is home to the Kutchi people, former nomads renowned for their hardiness. They, along with Gujaratis from the interior, have fashioned a sturdy local economy from...
...from Beijing that anyone wanting to do serious big business with the communist government had better be prepared to shift to the mainland metropolis. Chinese President Jiang Zemin's national government has been a major exponent of Shanghai's new Pudong economic center, some 135 sq. mi. of former marshland that is the transplanted economic heart of the new Shanghai. Having invested around $185 billion in Shanghai's renaissance, China's rulers clearly want to see the rest of the world acknowledge the primacy of their choice...
...lower Mississippi is the greatest freshwater coastal marshland in North America, a resplendently prolific nursery for fish, shellfish, furbearers and reptiles and a wintering haven for a third of North America's waterfowl. The saltwater invasion has cost the Cajun economy, rooted in fishing and trapping and hunting, dearly. But payment will soon be demanded farther north. Hydrologists are now proposing formerly unthinkable ideas--such as breaching the levees from New Orleans to the river's mouth--if only to spread enough silt to slow the Gulf's encroachment on the city. Even if that's done (it would probably...
...helicopter along with about ten journalists from CNN, the BBC, AP and other news outlets, being taken to the site where India yesterday shot down a Pakistani plane. We were flying over an exquisite but weird landscape, that has been turned into hundreds of miles of waterlogged marshland by the monsoons. From the air it would be impossible to tell where one country ends and the other begins, which may explain how some of these incidents happen...
...garbage and just throw it on the ground," he told CNN. Moments later Coast Guard aircraft and crews from the nearby Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show, then in progress, were dispatched to search for the aircraft, but they found only scattered pieces in a large discolored ellipse of marshland. The crash is the seventh worst in the U.S. since 1979, when 275 died in an American Airlines disaster...