Sentences with phrase «across vast swaths»

As an earlier World Bank - commissioned study noted, food stocks plummet, average summer temperatures reach extreme heatwave levels across vast swaths of the world, and sea - level rise threatens to displace hundreds of millions of people.

Or maybe Rothschild's zeal was simply an extreme form of that peculiar Victorian passion for plundering the world of its then - abundant natural riches, an ardor that was abetted in part by access to a British empire that stretched across vast swaths of Africa, India, and Australia.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

The US Department of Agriculture hopes that these special wasps will be a key ally in the fight against emerald ash borers, invasive beetles whose larvae have destroyed trees across vast swaths of northern and eastern America in just a few decades.

Firmly in his sights, then, are disgruntled Labour voters across vast swathes of England and Wales.

This flourishing of vegetation is no isolated phenomenon — it is happening across vast swathes of the planet.

There are thousands of XML dialects used across a vast swath of the sciences, in business and in ecommerce.

Trekking across vast swathes of sand dunes, catching the waves at one of the island's many surf spots, trying your hand at kite and windsurfing, and teeing off on a beautifully maintained golf course are just some of the activities you can expect from this Canary Island.

The co-founder of Naughty Dog (Uncharted, The Last of Us) and former president of THQ, he has a history of design, production and storytelling across a vast swath of best - selling titles.

NEWS: The speed at which the climate is changing is outstripping forests» ability to adapt to drier, hotter conditions across vast swathes of the US and Canada

Foster City - based Planktos Inc. has invested $ 2 million in a controversial effort to spread as much as 100 tons of pulverized iron across a vast swath of ocean to stimulate the growth of carbon dioxide - gobbling phytoplankton.

Not exact matches

Vast swaths of America are on fire — there are currently about 95 large fires active across 10 states — but this year is no anomaly.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Forests of silver birch stretch across Europe, and they are a wonder to behold: stands of slender, white - barked trees sheltering vast swathes of earth.

Enter through the new Howard Street entrance; spiral through Richard Serra's torqued, 213 - ton Corten steel sculpture Sequence, across the swath of free public space given over to hanging out under the vast Alexander Calder mobile, and up the maplewood stairway to the second - floor atrium.

According to NASA's Earth Observatory, from July 20 through July 27, temperatures were about 30 °F above average across a large swath of this vast, sparsely populated region.

Though we feel the vast swaths of text might come across as looking a bit heavy going for younger readers.

Scientific understanding of the complexities of soil microbial activity is still limited, but the long - term nature of the study provides valuable insights into what might be happening, and is likely to happen in future, to vast swaths of forest soils across the world.