Sentences with phrase «as vast tracts»

They pollinate plants, including 80 percent of the world's 94 major food crops, as well as vast tracts of tropical rain forest.

Not exact matches

This is an aspect of the Church's teaching that has not yet been fully developed and needs to flourish in the 21st century as we ponder the message of the great Council of the Church that was held in the 20th, following two ghastly world wars and the imposition of atheism on vast tracts of the globe.

For vast tracts of Saturday's game, Leeds were as good, if not better, than their opponents.

That's what the government has called vast tracts of land outside our towns and cities that it has wanted to protect from development - as if they were full of birds, bugs and gentle hedgerows.

Although they create jobs and bring in money to local and national economies, airports also create noise, pollution and transport problems as well as taking up vast tracts of land.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

Researchers are applying observations made by Charles Darwin's grandson to find that small organisms carry water with them as they go — which means they might play a big role in mixing vast tracts of ocean water

This publication features a vast range of historical paintings, political tracts, poems and ballads, as well as new work by Deller.

This is a minor infraction, obviously, but the rate at which we are assaulting the newly exposed areas of the arctic, the leasing of vast tracts in the Chuckchi Sea... we as a species, it seems, are unstoppable..

The Dutch multi-utility company Delta, which constructed and operates the 150 million euro plant, is calling it a carbon - neutral effort as it will preclude the emission of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane from chicken waste, which is usually laid out as fertilizer over vast tracts of farmland.

And Professor Balmford says: «Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming.

This is the first in a series of three articles looking at the six reserved legal activities found under the Legal Services Act 2007 and, more importantly, considering the vast tracts of non-reserved legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land grab.

Estates such as Silver Lakes are virtually suburbs in their own right, often covering vast tracts of land and have thousands of homes in them.

Showed the property to clients last night, land registry shows it as a vast undeveloped tract of land, original purchase price not given, nor is an assessment.