How to Use ecological in a Sentence

ecological

adjective

• 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
• The ecological devastation that happened in the 1930s across the Great Plains were man-made and provoked.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• 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 middle of the Cretaceous was also a time of ecological upheaval.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some of the paintings are large, and even the smaller ones amplify simple stalks and roots into parables of ecological peril and promise.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• And what was once one of the world’s greatest ecological gems will become an environmental tragedy.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The deer hunting plan is just the latest in a long string of attempts to impose some form of ecological order on the fragile and beloved island just 22 miles off the coast of Southern California.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Vaccine testing in the wild also raises ecological questions for bat species that are in decline.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• When Marsha Small fused her interests in Native American studies and ecological fieldwork, a path opened up with ease for the first time in her life.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• But a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants and people.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• The 2021 law removed safeguards for some lower-level wetlands, but kept them in place for those deemed the highest quality with the most ecological value.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2023
• Proponents argued that the apex predators would reestablish an ecological balance in the area.
  — Jesse Bedayn, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• In recent years, ecological efforts to preserve the supply of crabs banned the harvesting of roe from egg-bearing female crabs who carry the roe outside their shells.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
• In Louisiana, the Army Corps will open two spillways to relieve the swollen river, which can have wide-ranging ecological impacts.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• The famous pair talked a bit more, with Brando telling Goldberg about his island in Fiji and his efforts at ecological preservation.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 8 May 2024
• Those fires are fueling the vicious cycle of ecological destruction that are helping to make grass king.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• But there's been relatively little discussion about a spillover's ecological origins and how to stop it from happening in the first place.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
• More important, few have raised concerns about the long-term ecological impact from this military act.
  — Liam Collins, Fortune, 19 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024