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【TED】Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
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Max Lin posted on 2015/10/18Ever wondered how we could actually reverse climate change and bring deserts back to life? This fascinating TED talk dives into 'holistic management' and 'planned grazing' to restore grasslands and capture soil carbon. You'll pick up some fantastic advanced vocabulary related to ecology and environmental solutions!
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- Transitive Verb
- To exchange one set of clothes for another
- To exchange one kind of money for another
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Exchange of one set of clothes for another
- Money in the form of coins instead of paper
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- Uncountable Noun
- Drops of water that fall out of clouds in the sky
- Intransitive Verb
- (Of water from the clouds) to fall
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- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- Political division due to some kind of similarity
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- Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
- To betray someone
- To cover an area of ground to make a lawn or field
- Uncountable Noun
- Slang name for marijuana
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