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Recent Examples of guanoAlthough primarily related to bird guano and agriculture rather than bat guano and gunpowder, the Guano Islands Act highlighted just how strategically important guano had become in American history.—Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 How does seeing that black mold and guano in person change the story for you?—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2025 Finally, liquid bat guano and liquid earthworm castings (guano and castings are euphemisms for excrement) are also utilized for foliar fertilization.—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025 Clinicians need to ask about bat guano exposure in cannabis growers to discuss preventive measures and establish timely diagnoses.—Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for guano
Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
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Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.
And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.
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Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.
The timing and intensity of peak foliage vary from year to year, depending on several factors, such as drought conditions, rainfall, temperature, soil content, and the types of trees, as well as cloud cover.
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Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
But cutting down forests to plant coffee and other crops releases carbon that was stored in trees and soil into the atmosphere.
In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.
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