Scanning thousands of native English clips with synchronized subtitles and exact timestamps.
Listen to native speakers pronounce “wetland” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
This is a harvested peatland.So peatlands are wetland ecosystems.We also call them bonds, mires.
Now, here's this image that I've shown before and as I promised I would reference.Blue are canals and wetlands.
The third one, Iberá National Park, 1.7 million acres in the Northeast eastern section of Argentina, so cross the border and go north.This is wetlands and savanna grasslands.It's hot, subtropical. When we first visited there, got out of the plane and said, let's get back in the plane.
The river whisks that sediment downstream, the current slowing down as it enters a larger body of water or flows into a flat plain.Then, the river dumps the sand in wetlands called deltas or triangle-shaped deposits called alluvial fans.And rivers can change shape, too!
in the atmosphere. And that's just forests.Then there's the peatlands, and the wetlands, and the grasslands.But in order to unlock the huge potential restoration has for people, and nature, and climate, it's critical that these projects do not
It's great to be here at the Googleplex.I just took some pictures and compared them to the pictures I took at the Alibaba wetlands campus-- the bicycles.There they have a Taobao alien like your Android.
everybody, they kind of was hitting at the same time, jamming with each other.Roots used to do a little jam session at this place, Wetlands, I think, and everybody used to come down there.Working with Dilla-- he was part of that whole situation.
If we cross the Atlantic Ocean now, we find ourselves in Cape Town in South Africa.Here, we are in the Cape Flats at the Princess Vlei, 109 hectare wetland that during the apartheid era was assigned as a space for communities considerednon-white under the apartheid regime.
And, second, she's working with school and community groups to reforest public spaces with native seedlings and educate the next generation about sustainability.Rosenir and non-timber forest products in Brazil, Esther and mangrove restoration and sustainable tourism in Costa Rica, Denisha and urban wetland restoration in SouthAfrica, Sofia and sustainable forest management efforts in Portugal-- they seem like separate and unrelated stories.
So they brought all of these cows to feed the troops.But it's like this right here, it's kind of blown out, anyway that was the commute through this amazing grassland, wetland area.
failures at it, well you know that's--that's when we start scorning them. But we would have been perfectly happy tossing them little treats as long as they kept doing it anyway.wanted to do. I wanted to use that for global warming instead of just poisoning some little wetland over there. I had a big plan for this."
And really, the best way to do that is to conserve and restore ecosystems that are already doing these processes on their own.So these would be things like forests, grasslands, so-called blue carbon, all the amazing aquatic vegetation on our planet, wetlands, peatlands.There are all these incredible ecosystems that are already storing immense amounts of carbon.
She, out of college, I think it was, went into the military to crack codes.So it was six years of dinking around, trying to-- we did the landmark and important video, "Fabulous Wetlands," about how great wetlands are.
failures at it, well you know that's--that's when we start scorning them. But we would have been perfectly happy tossing them little treats as long as they kept doing it anyway.And we look at Deepwater Horizon and we say, "Oh my God, all that oil is washing up on all of these wetlands." But the reality is we were just gonna burn it out our tailpipes
biosphere. The biosphere consists of all the naturalsystems, living systems, and the life support systems of the earth -- the forests, the rivers, the oceans, the wetlands, the atmosphere to the ozone layer, to the aquifers, to the croplands, the grasslands, the hydrologic cycle, the carbon cycle, including photosynthesis, climate regulation, pollination, seed dispersal, flood and insect control, and so on and so
Down river from calexico and you have 30-foot tides here.So this was taken in the morning of a full moon when the tide was at its lowest. Used to be one of the most productive wetlandsin North America and now it's just a sand desert raked by tide.
They're pushing for infrastructure, and they're pushing for their own interest of raw materials.There are a lot of environmentalists who are very afraid, because a lot of the places they're putting dams are going to be flooding wetlands, which for instance, are the only habitat for
Having trouble pronouncing 'wetland'? Explore related pronunciations below: