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Lowlands

/ ˈləʊləndz /

plural noun

  1. a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands

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England would be the first country in the UK to be affected, with Wales, Northern Ireland and parts of the Scottish Lowlands also becoming suitable habitats later in the century.

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They began by mapping more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides across the Puget Lowlands -- deep-seated refers to landslides where the slide plane lays below the roots of the trees -- using a technique called airborne lidar.

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Strongest wind gusts from 50-55 mph will be across the East Puget Sound Lowlands and along the Central/N. Coast, including areas along the western portion of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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“I feel very lucky to be close in space and time to songs like ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ and ‘Murder Most Foul’ and ‘Jokerman,’ ” Swift says.

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Rockwell counters that his own work in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a wetland 800 kilometers south of Mitivik Island, has shown that polar bears there seem to be very effective egg foragers.

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