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Recent Examples of farmlandsAt their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
Lehman estimated there are only about 10 to 15 farms operating today that have large ostrich herds, and those producers have a better understanding of the animals’ behavior and free range needs.
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Dylan Lovan,
Fortune,
6 Sep. 2026
Locals still had to do shopping in the nearby city of Uruapan, where Mayor Carlos Manzo was gunned down by a cartel operative last year, and work on their farms in the mountains.
Shallow groundwater stores supported fruit orchards, alfalfa fields, livestock ranches and, at one point, a water park and dozens of manmade lakes where people could fish, sail and water ski.
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Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2026
If the composite can maintain its performance in seawater, it could eventually be used in offshore power plants, marine energy islands and marine ranches.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Aug. 2026
Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.
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Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2026
Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.