The frequency of high fire weather days in the Amazon increased above natural variability starting in 1997, according to a 2018 study published in Geophysical Research Letters.
What wildfires in Brazil, Siberia, and the US West have in common|Lili Pike|September 17, 2020|Vox
These cork boards are made from 100 percent natural cork and come in a 10-pack of hexagon-shaped boards.
Cork boards for organizing your home or office|PopSci Commerce Team|September 17, 2020|Popular Science
That famously includes removing the US from the landmark Paris climate accords and replacing Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which limits emissions from coal and natural-gas plants.
Trump’s rollbacks could add half an EU’s worth of climate pollution by 2035|James Temple|September 17, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Our job — and it’s the key job — is to change the zeitgeist, people’s sense of what’s normal and natural and obvious.
Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.|Sigal Samuel|September 17, 2020|Vox
When you immerse yourself in the natural world, you wander a little through the landscape of your soul.
What the Meadow Teaches Us - Issue 90: Something Green|Andreas Weber|September 16, 2020|Nautilus
Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: Jan. 4|PunditFact.com|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He declared that Western women are sexually promiscuous in a manner not even found in the natural world.
50 Shades of Iran: The Mullahs’ Kinky Fantasies about Sex in the West|IranWire, Shima Sharabi|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In addition to visiting the tomb of John Paul, who died of natural causes in 2005, Agca asked to see his successor, Pope Francis.
Pope-Shooter Ali Agca’s Very Weird Vatican Visit|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Local life in these places is not defined by their sports team or by their natural beauty—by things only available locally.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years|Jedediah Purdy|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Breathing through a tube, if continued for a long time, interferes with the natural growth of the air-passage above it.
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4)|Various
All these are natural expressions of innocent gaiety and youthful elasticity of spirits, whereof this world sees far too little.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
It is from the sun of the natural world, and its heat and light.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love|Emanuel Swedenborg
It is only natural that most of Browning's finest landscapes are Italian.
An Introduction to the Study of Browning|Arthur Symons
This occurs, though not frequently, (a) at the natural division of the metre.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors|George Middleton
British Dictionary definitions for natural
natural
/ (ˈnætʃrəl, -tʃərəl) /
adjective
of, existing in, or produced by naturenatural science; natural cliffs
in accordance with human natureit is only natural to want to be liked
as is normal or to be expected; ordinary or logicalthe natural course of events
not acquired; innatea natural gift for sport
being so through innate qualitiesa natural leader
not supernatural or strangenatural phenomena
not constrained or affected; genuine or spontaneous
not artificially dyed or coloureda natural blonde
following or resembling nature or life; lifelikeshe looked more natural without her make-up
not affected by man or civilization; uncultivated; wildin the natural state this animal is not ferocious
being or made from organic material; not synthetica natural fibre like cotton
illegitimate; born out of wedlock
not adopted but rather related by bloodher natural parents
music
not sharp or flat
(postpositive)denoting a note that is neither sharp nor flatB natural
(of a key or scale) containing no sharps or flatsCompare flat 1 (def. 23), sharp (def. 12)
musicof or relating to a trumpet, horn, etc, without valves or keys, on which only notes of the harmonic series of the keynote can be obtained
determined by inborn convictionnatural justice; natural rights
cards
(of a card) not a joker or wild card
(of a canasta or sequence) containing no wild cards
(of a bid in bridge) describing genuine values; not conventional
based on the principles and findings of human reason and what is to be learned of God from nature rather than on revelationnatural religion
noun
informala person or thing regarded as certain to qualify for success, selection, etcthe horse was a natural for first place
music
Also called (US): cancelan accidental cancelling a previous sharp or flatUsual symbol: ♮
a note affected by this accidentalCompare flat 1 (def. 35), sharp (def. 19)
pontoonthe combination of an ace with a ten or court card when dealt to a player as his or her first two cards