In the spring, crowds expect a beautiful show as the trees blossom along the edge of the Tidal Basin next to the Jefferson Memorial.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

On March twenty-seventh,nineteen twelve, Missus Taft and the wife of the Japanese Ambassador together planted two trees at a part of the river called the tidal basin.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

The rain filled the Tularosa Basin and formed Lake Otero.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Twelve kinds of cherry trees grow around the Tidal Basin.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

This bowl of rock is known as the Tularosa Basin.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

They are from Suriname, in the Amazon Basin tropical forest.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

But the Tularosa Basin is enclosed.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

But when we come to where the large significant populations are, which is the Congo basin, then we find that it's the bush meat trade that's the commercial hunting of wild animals for food.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

There are around a half-million cases a year, mostly in the Amazon basin, a region heavily affected by deforestation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Jeremy Bird heads the commission and says balancing the pros and cons of hydropower dams is the biggest challenge facing the Mekong basin.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

The indigenous tribes of the Amazon Basin have been protecting that land for free.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

"Since the European Union Naval Force arrived in the Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin in the Indian Ocean back in December 2008, this is the farthest hijacking that we're aware of.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

says Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon Basin would make effective use of the funding that forest credits could generate, "It brings resources in the hands of those who have been the stewards of this land for generations,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17