Sentences with phrase «burning dry grass»

Workshops with children in Russia's Astrakhan region where burning dry grass is a big problem for the forest and fire department © Maria Vasilieva / Greenpeace

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«Much of this grass is fully dried and is ready to burn,» says Gary Morgan of the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre in Melbourne.

Here, in preparation for cattle grazing every spring, dried grass on the caldera is burnt, maintaining the area as a grassland.

They burn in the dry season so that theyll have a better regrowth of grasses when the rains come again, explains Ronald Nussbaum of the University of Michigan.

68 In energetic form, it can be described as a fast - burning brushfire in dry grass; when the system becomes too depleted, it can only consume itself.

Heading downstairs to the exhibition space, «Daughters of Penelope» surveys the historic relationship between women artists and Dovecot: there's a strong sense of place ever present, from Moss circle / square (2010) in which Caroline Dear draws on her training in basket weaving, picking out grasses from her home on Skye which she dries and knots into tactile, perishable grids, to Naomi Robertson's Kantha Diaries (2011) produced after a trip to west Bengal, absorbing Kantha quilt designs into blue - white reproductions of daily rhythms, or a rug, Untitled (2013) created by Julie Brook and Dovecot, that mimics the gradations of tone in the British artist's burnt ochre pigment drawings, picked up while travelling through deserts in Libya and Namibia.

Every spring firefighters throughout the West approach the summer season with a proverbial prediction: If the winter was dry, all those parched trees will burn like torches; if it was a wet winter, all those new grasses will fuel quick fire starts and hot, runaway flames.

«The consequence also includes increased magnitude of wildfire, because the very wet years will prompt grass which, in very dry years, becomes fuel to burn.»