Sentences with phrase «by rain forest»

Filtering by price ($ 100 to $ 500) and size (large) produced a wide selection, from limited - edition prints like a poster of Wes Anderson's «The Grand Budapest Hotel» by Robotic Ewe, recreated using the film script ($ 210), to acrylic paintings like «Amazonia,» a bright abstract by Rashna Hackett, inspired by rain forest parrots ($ 490).

This site was entirely covered by the rain forest for more than 1000 years and therefore is not as extensively restored as many of the other Mayan sites since it was only found in 1937 by local logger, Mrs. Rosa Mai.

We hope you will join us at «La Palapa Eco Lodge Resort» and enjoy our charming and secluded accommodations, surrounded by rain forest.

This luxurious tropical vacation villa in Manuel Antonio is surrounded by the rain forest and has amazing ocean views.

The teeming port town of Ocho Rios is just ten miles away, surrounded by the rain forests of Saint Ann and Dunn's River Falls.

You will be able to dine and drink steps away from one of the world's most spectacular beaches, Playitas, surrounded by rain forests with white faced monkeys chattering next to baritone Howler monkeys bellowing and above, sloth lazing in the trees.

Not exact matches

Yanuo Tropical Rain Forest Resort is described by Viator as an «eco-theme park for adventure enthusiasts.»

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

For both sexes there is Terence McKenna's promise of an «Archaic Revival» in which human consciousness and the world will be psychedelically transformed by way of the magic mushrooms McKenna discovered in the rain forests of the Amazon.

In summary, we would point out that from 1960 to 1980 beef production in Central America increased 160 percent; of the 400,000 square kilometers of rain forest that existed in 1960 in Central America less than one - half remained by 1980 (Myers 1981).

In Costa Rica, between 1960 and 1980, pasturage and cattle increased by about seventy - five percent, while the rain forests decreased by about forty percent during this same period, being converted to pasturelands (Myers 1981, 6).

Irrelevant but personally changing question that I have found - In certain areas of the rain forests in South America there are tribes that have never seen a person from the outside world in thousands of years and have only in the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplane.

We have, for example, already taken some measures to deal with one of the probable causes of the growing holes in the ozone layer, and to reverse the destruction of European forests by acid rain.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

They are taken up by plants again with such efficiency that the water that runs from the undisturbed Amazonian rain - forest is virtually the same as distilled water in composition.

We're polluting our oceans, destroying rain forests, changing ecological environments by damming rivers, causing the extinction of animal species, and so on.

They are slowly being decimated by the destruction of the rain forests.

Our certifications verify the palm plantations we source from are not developed by removing rain forests, but by converting pre-existing agricultural land to palm oil production.

However, rain forests and peat lands in palm oil producing countries are under pressure — particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia — and in response, many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have pledged to convert entirely to sustainable palm oil by 2015.

The coat, copied after Ahmed's, is made of nylon - reinforced whipcord, the same fabric worn by timber cruisers in the rain forests of the Pacific Northwest.

heart the personal experience of more connected living Salve by Hudson Gardner Enchantment by Ivy Scherbarth Wolf Mother: Reflections from a Rain Forest by Megan Luczak Story Many Times by Erika Howsare March Meander by Thorpe Moeckel Backyard Fairies by Phoebe Wahl

Archaeologists who have uncovered two massive carved stucco panels in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala's northern rain forest say they are the earliest known representation of the Mayan creation myth, predating other such artifacts by a millennium.

Also in January, the nonprofit group Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International (RAEI) announced that an expedition to the rain forests of coastal Ecuador had found new reptiles, insects, and amphibians whose habitat is threatened by climate change and deforestation.

When he and his colleagues examined 98 soil samples, from the Arctic tundra to the Amazonian rain forest, they were floored by the results.

Back here on Earth, this once - gorgeous planet, now plodded and trammeled by doomed and flatulent cattle, shall see its scenery restored when billions of acres are replanted with swards of lush, sky - thickening rain forest.

And because of the looming threats created by global climate change, what he is uncovering in these remote rain forests could have far - reaching consequences.

This has led me to the central Amazon, where I've been investigating how the isolation of fragments of rain forest by logging and cattle ranching influences the growth of plants found in the forest understory.

Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.

«There's a very limited road system, and most of our travels are either by foot or by small airplane,» says Austin, who often spends weeks camped on the banks of the Sepik River in the north - central rain forest where he collects lizards, snakes, and frogs.

As part of their search for economic ways to overcome the lignin challenge, researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have characterized the enzymatic activity of a rain forest microbe that breaks down lignin essentially by breathing it.

Destruction of tropical rain forests, however, would significantly increase the concentration of carbon dioxide — the most important greenhouse gas — in the atmosphere by 26 percent.

According to Williams's model, for example, the Amazon rain forest is toast: By the end of the century, and possibly even by midcentury, tropical rain forests will be taken over by savannas — the next hottest biome — their lush trees replaced by expanses of tall grasBy the end of the century, and possibly even by midcentury, tropical rain forests will be taken over by savannas — the next hottest biome — their lush trees replaced by expanses of tall grasby midcentury, tropical rain forests will be taken over by savannas — the next hottest biome — their lush trees replaced by expanses of tall grasby savannas — the next hottest biome — their lush trees replaced by expanses of tall grasby expanses of tall grass.

The biggest losers appear to be those trees specifically adapted to the shady undergrowth of virgin rain forest whose seeds are spread by some of the Amazon's many species of animals.

What's settled science now, however, is that just as the Amazon is dependent on the rain and sunlight provided by the sky, the sky is dependent on the nourishment from the forest.

For people living in poverty in the Amazon, cutting down the rain forest often appears to be the only way to thrive economically — first by selling the lumber, later by farming and ranching on the land.

An extensive study led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time.

It destroys the rain forest habitat, fails to alleviate poverty, and contributes to global warming by eliminating trees that would absorb and store carbon dioxide.

Mercader and Boesch decided to track the chimp nut - cracking habit back in time by digging into the sandy, muddy rain forest soil nearby for evidence of older tools.

That's because air passing over forests picks up moisture given off by trees and plants, fueling rains.

It is produced naturally by soils, with agricultural and tropical rain forest soils being the main sources of N2O to the atmosphere.

An additional 10 to 48 percent of land would see its climate zones disappear, replaced by patterns of temperature and precipitation now occurring elsewhere, such as rain forest becoming savanna or evergreen forest becoming deciduous.

April 6, 2004, Satellite Data Reveal Drought in Amazon Rain Forest, by Sarah Graham.

«There's a place in the south,» he says, «where you can stand with one foot in the rain forest being sucked on by land leeches and the other foot in a spiny thicket with baobab trees and a 12 - month dry season.»

Tracking the movement of nitrogen is much harder, but Armesto and Weathers believe that the nitrogen transported by fog is also critical to the survival of Chile's coastal rain forests.

Then the researchers took the plants out into the forest, mimicking the natural process by which young leaves are gradually colonized by fungi swirling in the air or contained in water droplets when it rains.

Murals painted by the Maya and other pre-Columbian cultures often contain a distinctive blue pigment that somehow manages to last for centuries in humid rain forests, as has this mural from Cacaxtla in Mexico.

«In tropical rain forests, the seeds of 80 to 90 percent of trees and lianas are dispersed by animals.

«By planning ahead, foresters and other decision - makers can begin now to manage for resilient landscapes and ensure that the benefits that forests provide are sustained into the future,» said Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station and the Forest Products Laboratory.

«This theory could explain why continental interiors with huge rain forests remain so moist,» says Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Douglas Sheil, who in an April Bioscience paper revived the biotic pump model, originally proposed in 2006 by Anastassia Makarieva and Victor Gorshkov, both at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia.

As rain forests are destroyed by humans, deserts expand.