But the progressive blocking and consumption of those waters have also provided a stark example of the ecological havoc such projects can cause.

Collapsing demand for cotton and other agricultural staples was compounded by ecological havoc wrecked by poor land-use strategies.

The traditional Chinese associations with this hexagram are sitting under a bare tree and wandering through an empty valley-signifying the ecological havoc wreaked by purely abstract minds working upon the organic web of nature.

Environmentalists worry that modified genes could escape from crops into weeds, wreaking ecological havoc.

When those demands are not met, a grounded, leaking tanker unleashes ecological havoc; shipwreck creates shorewreck.

Marine scientists have warned that these fish could wreak ecological havoc when they escape into open seas, yet United States regulations are wholly inadequate to assess this risk.

If we killed them all, we could wreak ecological havoc that would in turn destroy us.

But fishermen, tribes and environmentalists are opposed, saying the activity could wreak ecological havoc in crab and fishing grounds.

Despite its size, the penalty is appropriate to the scale of the ecological havoc wrought by the spill and the reckless behavior that caused it.

Oddly enough, rats had rarely wrought the ecological havoc that had marked their spread on Terra.