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Reviving the amunas could be complemented by projects to restore the puna, the high-altitude tundra ecosystem that, when healthy, holds water like a sponge.
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Simeon Tegel, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
Simeon Tegel, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puna
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Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were inexplicably abandoned.Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
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These western–North Carolina highlands, largely protected from extensive mining extraction, would protect me and the others who call them home.Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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The country’s upland areas are covered by a patchwork of teams made up of locals from all walks of life.Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
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Aided by legislation that rewards landowners for increasing the biodiversity of the Welsh uplands, his group has been planting trees — more than 300,000 at this point, including that rowan.Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
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Follow the Big Park Loops signs for a four mile circumnavigation of the butte.Erin Strout, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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The jagged shadows of buttes and spires disappeared and reappeared, a merry-go-round of angles cast on to the cascading rocks cradling the Colorado River.Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
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Hardin said he got started as a teenager maintaining communication towers and now specializes in restoring old steeples and domes.Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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In this case, a paper-thin layer of this material is placed on the top surface of the floating foam under the dome.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
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In the Chilean altiplano above 12,000 feet, Meiburg spends one of the coldest nights of his life in a sleeping bag on the edge of a salt lagoon, staking out mountain caracaras known for working in groups to flip over heavy flat stones in search of edible creatures.Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2021
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The landscape changed around me; condensing from plains, desert, and mountains into the jungles of Central America, then unfolding in reverse, into the expanse of the altiplano.J.R. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2022
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“Puna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puna. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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