natural resource
a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
natural resources, the natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc.
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How to use natural resource in a sentence
They include human rights in Central America, integration and the rule of law in the Central American Parliament, migration and security, natural resources and the environment and tourism and economic development of the region.
Ruby Corado backs transgender Central American Parliament candidate | Michael K. Lavers | February 11, 2021 | Washington BladeIn 2016, New York City launched a non-lethal deer management plan that focused on male deer sterilization, public education, and natural resource protection.
Four wild animals that are thriving in cities | By Ryan Chelius/Outdoor Life | February 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAnthea, the extraterrestrial’s home planet, is dying, its water and other natural resources almost depleted, and he is the last hope for its 300 surviving inhabitants.
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder | Michael Dirda | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostIts mission is to manage natural resources, and historically it has used that writ to permit ranching, logging, mining and drilling by private corporations.
I am an environmental data scientist who leverages data and analytical techniques to answer critical questions about natural resource management.
AI and satellite data find thousands of fishing boats that could be using forced labor | Gavin McDonald | December 21, 2020 | Quartz
“Israeli men are our biggest natural resource when it comes to gay tourism,” says Rodrigue.
The practice of extracting payments from natural resource companies by threats of disruption and violence will continue.
The Hunger Strike Diet: You Don't Lose Weight AND You Accomplish Your Goal! | David Frum | January 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTo take his hat and go would have been his natural resource, but then he did not wish to be foiled in his object.
Barchester Towers | Anthony TrollopeBut as regards many another natural resource, scientific civilization teaches us how to preserve it through use.
African and European Addresses | Theodore RooseveltFor more than 60 years, the Forest Service has been serving the Nation as a leading natural resource conservation agency.
Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota | L. David MechBut tears and bewailings were not a natural resource with Polly, whose forte was action.
A Bookful of Girls | Anna FullerSilence was the natural resource, but silence is sometimes more eloquent than speech.
Chronicles of Dustypore | Henry Stewart Cunningham
Scientific definitions for natural resource
Something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or fresh water, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans. See more at nonrenewable renewable.
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