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Recent Examples of guanoHe was jolted out of his reverie by a whiff of guano in the breeze.—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025 All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025 Bat guano is made from the droppings of bats that are collected from caves.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for guano
The primary sources of nitrates in groundwater are from livestock manure and other nitrogen-rich fertilizers placed on crops by farmers and ranchers, experts said.
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Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
Biochar is usually made from wood, but it can also be created by burning plant debris, livestock bedding, manure, and other natural items.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Apr. 2026
They can be sampled using standardized trapping methods worldwide, since they are easily attracted to dung and carrion, which allows for comparable data across different regions.
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Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2026
Yes, unfortunately, the ancient Irish did burn cow dung to heat their homes when peat was too expensive or not available.
Meanwhile, the unceasing churn of clothing, footwear and accessories depletes soils, poisons the water, pollutes the air, drives deforestation, accelerates biodiversity loss and generates runaway planet-warming emissions that undermine brands’ lofty environmental ambitions.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
Felton Road is located in the Bannockburn subregion of Central Otago and grows grapes in four vineyards planted on north-facing slopes comprised of glacial soils.
The dog-waste donnybrook was similar to another recent clash in Brooklyn that saw a 75-year-old grandmother jumped and beaten for complaining that a dog walker was not cleaning up the pooch’s poop.
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Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
Participants also reported the quality of their poop using the Bristol Stool Chart.