Word: soiling
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...changing the winds, pushing the monsoon rains off Asian cropland into the sea. Poor countries are destroying their share of their environment too: woodcutters are stripping India of its forests; herders in the Subsahara are helping the desert spread; careless farmers in Pakistan are washing away their best soil and its covering, parlaying their land into a dust bowl...
About 4:45 a.m. we touched Cuban soil. As the plane's wheels scraped the dark empty runway, someone began to sing, "Cuba, Que Linda Es Cuba...
Archaeologists have long been intrigued by the heaps of brownish-gray slag scattered amid the sandy soil of Israel's southern Negev Desert. First spotted by the late American biblical scholar and archaeologist Nelson Glueck, the heaps seemed to be remnants of an ancient copper-smelting operation of pre-Roman origin. Now, after excavating at the site with a team of West German mining experts, Israeli Archaeologist Beno Rothenberg reports that the slag is only the tip of an archaeological treasure. A short distance away, he says, is the oldest underground mining system ever found...
...country and shipped to the U.S. for refining. The mining machinery will soon be powered by Botswana's coal. Mineralogists have found that perhaps 400 billion tons of coal-almost two-thirds of the proven reserves in all of Europe-lie beneath the country's soil. Additional recent copper and nickel discoveries have been labeled "very promising" by representatives of U.S. Steel, and deposits of manganese, asbestos and gypsum have yet to be developed...
...their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain seed upon barren ground. For six years the grain will be plowed under to build soil that should eventually bear food crops...