How to Use ecological in a Sentence

ecological

adjective
Definition of ecologicalnext
  • And so, as with many of our ecological crises, time is running out.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The ambition now is to recruit otters to help restore the ecological health of a much wider swath of the West Coast.
    — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But the efforts of Lindsey and her volunteers lie at the heart of Maui's ecological health.
    — John Wogan, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024
  • But the small creature plays a crucial ecological role in Texas.
    — Dallas News, 2 May 2022
  • The ecological area, which extends from Shroud Cay in the north to Bells Cay in the south, protects mangroves and amazing marine species.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
  • The ecological devastation that happened in the 1930s across the Great Plains were man-made and provoked.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The tribes, who view wolves as a brother and place a high value on the species' ecological role, choose to use their quota to try to protect rather than kill the animals.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, carmakers need to strike a balance—not just to serve the tastes of car owners but for a host of health and ecological reasons.
    — Paul Amitai, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The differences in the amount stem from the differences in their ecological niches.
    — Big Think, 20 June 2024
  • How Modesto will combat the ecological impact of the caves was not specifically answered by the city.
    — Trevor Morgan, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The ecological impacts of dropping tons of biomass to the ocean bottom are currently unclear as well.
    — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The team writes that biomass can serve as an indicator of the abundance and ecological footprint of wild mammals on a global scale.
    — Jan Dönges, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The middle of the Cretaceous was also a time of ecological upheaval.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • But this is just the beginning of the ecological repair of Lake Elizabeth.
    — Kyle Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The fossil records also line up with ecological changes.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But one of the problems is that that causes some ecological imbalances because there are so many ravens.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
  • The long-term ecological disaster will unfold over decades to come.
    — Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • Even in the midst of widespread ecological catastrophe, certain animals found a way to beat the odds and survive.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • There are also ecological reasons to avoid tossing your Levi’s in the washer.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Foresters are now racing to restore the land with the hope that ghost forests can cut off an ecological ripple that affects hundreds of thousands of people.
    — Ginger Zee, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The city hopes to expand the use of the animals as an ecological and cost-effective option to prevent flooding.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But as the world’s plastic consumption has skyrocketed, so has the amount of plastic waste, and the ecological damage that goes along with it.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
  • Policy change alone has yet to make any measurable difference for the lake, which teetered over the brink of ecological collapse at this time last year.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, in its own discreet, modest way, the film leaves us with a haunting sense of a personal and ecological apocalypse.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • The media’s treatment of the incident stood in sharp contrast to its 1969 damnation of the ecological disaster.
    — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Water stress occurs when there is not enough water to meet human or ecological needs.
    — Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Factor in the ecological impact, plus all the unnecessary stress of air travel, and a summer road trip through the West is sounding more appealing by the minute.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • The timing of when pinnipeds evolved might have contributed to their ecological attachment to the shoreline.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Pumping to supply farms and cities has contributed to the ecological degradation of the Delta, where threatened and endangered fish species include steelhead trout, two types of Chinook salmon, longfin smelt, Delta smelt and green sturgeon.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Warmer fall seasons prolong the first freeze and interrupt essential ecological functions.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024

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