Sentences with phrase «burn huge areas»

Fire is a natural part of the ecology of many forests, but when fires get out of control they can burn huge areas and spread to neighboring homes and settlements.

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After all, the bank is well known for financing huge projects in developing countries that have made it an accomplice in the pollution of rivers, the burning of forests, and the strip mining of huge areas.

The gas was ignited decades ago to avoid the spread of the fumes to a nearby village and is still burning, although there are reports that the president of Turkmenistan is seeking to extinguish the pit of fire as part of efforts to develop huge gas reserves in the area (warning: the preceding link is a rough Google translation from Japanese).

Mining, particularly gold mining, on the other hand opens up huge areas of the forest and also invites contamination from mercury — which is either dumped in the river or burned and then inhaled by the miners and their families.

Huge areas that could be reforested to draw down carbon are burned each year to prevent that happening.

There's also Brown's failure to stockpile water after all the rains from last winter's huge storms, something that could have prevented the areas around population centers from becoming bone dry and easy to burn.