There are
vast areas of land available that are not suitable for use as food crops and labor is available in developing countries.
The issue becomes significantly worse in the case of Palestinian areas, where there's millions of people with no economy to speak of in
small area of land.
A low - tide elevation is a naturally formed
area of land which is surrounded by and above water at low tide but submerged at high tide.
Higher yields and more crops grown in the
same area of land means fewer minerals from the soil go to each plant.
In contrast to previous studies, lab - grown meat was found to be no more sustainable than chicken or eggs, requiring an
equivalent area of land but using more energy in production.
Future assessments of carbon storage must now take into account the
surface areas of the land - ocean aquatic continuum to ensure accurate estimation of carbon storage.
Surface air temperatures for the four individual seasons of 2017 were also higher than the averages for 1981 - 2010 over
many areas of land and ocean.
The problem with wind and solar power is that the energy flux is low, so to get a decent amount of energy you need an
enormous area of land.
Nevertheless, the power production per
unit area of land is not particularly impressive.
Surface air temperatures for 2017 were higher than the average for 1981 - 2010 over
most areas of land and ocean.
As the match progresses, the
playable area of land is continually reduced, so participants are forced closer and closer together.
In some circumstances, these requirements relate not just to the land on which the service will be delivered, but also to
other areas of land.
Many of these projects have caused unpleasant environmental effects such as air or radiation pollution and the flooding of
large areas of land.
Getting more wheat from the
same area of land would have massive environmental benefits — freeing up land to set aside for wildlife or to capture carbon, for example.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson talks about in which
areas of land use thoughts to new signings.
After the first Maroon War (1730 - 1739), in which the Maroons were led by Queen Nanny, a treaty was agreed that gave the Maroons control over large
areas of land in return for agreeing to return runaway slaves and to help put down revolts or outside invasions.
IPAs are generally larger
areas of land with high biodiversity and cultural heritage conservation values and therefore have a greater capacity to be able to withstand climate change impacts and allow for natural adaptation processes.
The group said a large dam, gate or lock to manage tidal flows in and out of the San Francisco Bay, and under the Golden Gate Bridge, might protect «a
huge area of land from flooding with one project.»
According to this study, the global
area of land under certified organic agriculture in 2002 was 17.8 million hectares of which:
In its recommendations, the group also supported the establishment of a new countywide system that would have fewer emergency service providers covering larger
areas of land within the county.
Aboriginal law: The Crown granted Moulton Contracting timber sale licences and a road permit to log
certain areas of land within the Behn family territory, which is located within the Fort Nelson First Nation territory.
Eventually we come to learn that Kane was part of a team that went into the Shimmer, an ever - expanding
area of land near the coast wherein the rules of nature don't want to apply, and from which no one ever comes back alive.
But what you may not know is which nations really have the highest rates of deforestation, so here they are: When considering all these, for sake of comparison, even though Brazil gets a lot of the heat for Amazonian deforestation — and rightly so, considering the total
area of land cleared — as a percentage of landmass cleared it isn't even in the the top twenty.
Commonly, the leases included large
areas of land around communities, including air strips, quarries, rubbish dumps, cattle yards, nearby homelands and areas of vacant land.
The UK's «land footprint» — another term for the
global area of land devoted to delivering British food and animal feed — increased by 23 % between 1986 and 2009, while associated carbon dioxide emissions increased by 15 %, say Henri de Ruiter, an environmental scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, and colleagues.
A football field —
sized area of land is being washed away every hour, and lawsuits are being filed to hold oil and gas companies responsible for the destruction
Dr Liz Rylott, who co-lead the research at CNAP added: «
Areas of land contaminated with explosives are a threat to human health and the environment.
At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the
aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»
The newest of the Wildfrontiers properties, Bakers Lodge, is an upmarket, intimate safari lodge located on a large private
area of land surrounded by shady trees and wetlands.
Other developed countries are contributing $ 4bn over the next five years to the Great Green Wall Initiative —
restoring areas of land in the Sahara and Sahel, and making it capable of storing vast quantities of climate - warming greenhouse gases.
It is prolific, it chokes up
areas of land so that albatross can't nest or easily take off or land from flight, and the roots break up the soil which collapses the burrows of Bonin Petrels and the nests of other burrowing birds.