Recent Examples on the WebUsing environmental geographers, satellite images and Mexican government estimates, the NGO Climate Rights International estimates that the area deforested for these plantations is between 16,000 and 28,000 hectares.—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 June 2024 Added up, the islands and islets in the world archipelago account for just 6.7 percent of the planet’s terrestrial surface, the fastidious geographers inform us.—John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 Such shortcuts worsened the damage from the disastrous February 2023 earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria, says Mette Bendixen, a physical geographer at McGill University who has investigated the effects of sand mining since 2017.—David A. Taylor, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 An Oxford graduate to John Auden’s Cambridge, a geographer to his geologist, Michael Spender trained in mapmaking and aerial photography in the Alps and went on to land the post that Auden craved, when, in 1935, he was chosen as the chief surveyor for an expedition to reconnoiter Everest.—Maya Jasanoff, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018 See all Example Sentences for geographer
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