Sentences with phrase «area burned during»

The U.S. prediction applies to area burned during median fire years; extreme fire years would consume still more area.

Not exact matches

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

Speaking on a live programme on Radio Nigeria Progress 100.5 FM, ISEJOBA RERE, Olanbiwonnu revealed that his house at Oke Ila area of Ado - Ekiti and five vehicles were burnt down during the violence that trailed Aderiye's death, while his wife's shop was looted.

In this paper, UCR and Forest Service researchers teamed up to explore a previously unstudied aspect of nitrogen saturation: its effect on the gases and aerosols released during burning of forest fuels from an area experiencing nitrogen saturation.

The plantations are being developed on areas of highly degraded, effectively second - growth forests that have been logged repeatedly over more than 40 years; large parts burned during the major fires that swept Sabah in the early 1980s.

Gaveau said analysis by his organization showed the fires on the two largest burnt areas in Indonesia's Riau province on Sumatra island during February and March this year were either started outside concessions, or on land occupied by small - scale operators within concessions.

This is consistent with a lengthening of the fire weather season in Spain during 2012 (Fig. 4, 2012) where fires burned more area than any year in the previous decade49.

That suggests 44 percent of the forest area that burned during the three decades analyzed burned because of the effects of global warming.

Telltale symptoms of a yeast infection in women include vaginal discharge, rashes and itching in the vaginal area and a burning sensation during urination.

Take 1 capsule during or after the meal (never before the meal) and see if you notice a mild burning sensation in your stomach, chest area.

The infection — marked by cloudy, bloody, or funky - smelling urine, burning during urination, and a full feeling in the pelvic area — wont go away on its own.

Divide Peak OHV Area got burned over during the Thomas Fire, and it is unknown when it will reopen.

However, if one considers the enormous increase of reactive nitrogen in our biosphere, due to the use of synthesized fertilizer and the burning of fossil fuels, its impact is not part of the analysis, even tough this increase shows up in the eutrophication (nutrient enrichment) of open waters all over the world, resulting in excess algae, in some areas causing large algae blooms (as where they are going to hold the sailing regattas during the Olympics), red tides and dead zone, as the 8000 square mile dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Some large high severity fires occurred in these areas during the 1950s drought, and subsequent droughts, but the largest total areas burned in forests were an order of magnitude smaller than the largest fires today.

This burn area so far for this one territory is almost twice that for the whole of Canada during an average year through early August.

Improving regulatory alignment and information sharing in this area — including on finding and fixing methane leaks while ending the wasteful practices of intentionally venting (directly releasing) and flaring (burning) methane emissions during energy commodity development can benefit all three countries.

On the other hand, the number of sites burned during the 1500s and the 1600s was 38 and 41, respectively, and corresponded to relatively large fire areas.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

The fire season in northern California during 2014 was the second largest in terms of burned areas since 1996.

If you look at areas like Lake Victoria where there was a decrease, the Tanzanians during the study period deforested 27 + % of their forest acreage and burned it as firewood.

In a detailed study, the Amazon Institute of Environmental Research and Woods Hole Research Center found that 73 % of burned area in the Amazon was on previously cleared land, and that was during the 1990s, when overall deforestation rates were high.

While pollution in some areas provides nuclei for water to condense on to form clouds, in other places there may be soot particles, which could absorb sunlight and cause the cloud to burn off (evaporate) during the day, leaving less cloud to warm the night.