Sentences with phrase «area of land cleared»

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.

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In mining, large areas of land are cleared of trees and brush, then the top soil and clay are removed to expose the oil sand.

He added: «The policy requires the communal corridors, landings and stairwells of properties to be designated a «clear zone» (sterile area), free of all extraneous items.

To survive the Mega Ramp, a rider must barrel down a 64 - foot - high, 60 - degree slope at 40 mph and clear a 75 - foot gap between the takeoff point and the landing area, which shoots straight into a 27 - foot quarterpipe that looks like a section of roller coaster.

Cheryshev broke clear down the left and found Enes Unal in the centre of the penalty area, and although Unal's shot was blocked by the onrushing Keylor Navas, it landed to Fornals to chip a first - time shot over the despairing goalkeeper.

Although the loss of soil nutrients and moisture threatens roughly a third of the world's land area, imperiling farming and biodiversity, scientists lack a clear definition of it or agreed standards to measure its causes and progression.

Now a team of Stanford researchers has developed a computer model that can help understand the ways that activities such as clear - cutting and welfare programs might impact the future of the land and the people who live inside protected areas of the rainforest.

Clear - cutting the surrounding lands, for instance, lowered the amount of animals within the protected areas by a significant degree.

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).

«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.

Information reaching our news room is that sometime last week, a bulldozer was clearing land in the Blackburn area of Crooked Tree Village when the incident occurred.

The waters are all clear and often protected by the offshore reefs that can produce some of the world's best surfing and keep the water on the beaches flat for swimming and snorkeling in the lagoons that can be difficult to find in many areas on the main land of Bali.

Sir David Attenborough said this area also has the cleanest body of water in the world due to the lack of agricultural farming, industrial industries and lack of land clearing and degradation.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

You zip about the place, using one thumbstick to move and the other to aim whilst hammering the attack button in order to clear the area of foes, but the whole thing just feels poorly optimized, with the aiming system so aggravatingly inaccurate that you'll often land a shot on everything in the immediate vicinity except your intended target.

Every time I cleared a boss, I'd rush to the next area with anticipation of what was next in store, and what new lands I'd get to explore.

As most of the young artists in this exhibition have relocated to the greater Los Angeles area, it is clear that the Oxnartians have landed, and they are here to stay.

Melillo and colleagues now report that if biofuel crops replace food crops on current farmlands, then the clearing of forested land for additional food crops will release more carbon from the soil there than in the areas where the biofuel crops themselves are being grown,» says the press release.

«Fig. 1a shows an averaged IRIS cloud - cleared... and land / island areas have been masked out... Figure 1c shows the component of the simulated spectrum that includes only the effect of trace - gas changes between 1970 and 1997 (omitting..

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

«They should adopt consistent reporting of land and tree clearing across states and the Commonwealth, in line with best practice in this area — which has traditionally been the Queensland SLATS Scheme verified by field reporting.»

More rational utilization of already cleared and degraded areas, combined with intensification of soy and cattle production, will help reduce the need to clear forest land.

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.

Moving away from the tropics in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and clear desert areas over land.

Last week, fellow TreeHugger Brian Merchant highlighted how over the past 10 years a full 80 % of the land cleared in the Amazon has been for raising of beef cattle, and that that area now is the size of the nation of Iceland.

It is probable that the political opposition is using this as something to hold against the government, but it's also undeniable that the clearing of woods in Argentina is a no - man's - land area where local governments and companies do as they please.

Mainly if an area is under population stress it will be denuded of trees if people use wood for building and for fuel there will be a local climate effect quickly and a larger climate effect from the land clearing.

Which means that the proportion of heat in the ocean as opposed to the atmosphere might be slightly different (big deal because the oceans store so much heat), that albedo might be slightly higher because you have less areas covered by forests which are darker than clear land and thus absorb more sunlight, and so on.

These space junk cleanup concepts could potentially help to clear some of the debris which is currently littering the area around Earth, but many of them still have one major drawback - they tend to focus on getting the junk to come back to Earth to land in our oceans, which have enough problems without the added debris.

Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

In Brazil — which has lost 55 million hectares since 1990, an area three fourths the size of Texas — land clearing for farms and ranches is the big driver.

Aboriginal law: In 2005, the Grassy Narrows First Nation launched an action against Ontario after it issued a licence enabling Abitibi - Consolidated Inc. to clear - cut an area of land.

Similarly, if a construction project produces debris that lands on a sidewalk or common walking area, some party running the project bears responsibility to clear the debris out of the walkway.

His forced descent meant he was far short of their intended landing zone and he landed in a bushy field instead of the cleared landing area.

Often a mining tenement covers a large area of land and so the company and relevant Indigenous group agree to survey only the proposed work, resulting in that particular proposal being cleared or modified depending on the location and importance of sites.

I can pay the $ 35k and rehab it when I could just get a different property altogether for less or I spend another $ 8k to demo the existing property and clear the lot and end up with a piece of land that probably has no value (if houses in that area are worth $ 25k).

Looking out onto a cleared land mine field in western Cambodia during a 2007 visit, Marta Karpiel saw row after row of white sticks, each marking an area where a mine had been removed.