Sentences with phrase «clear land»

The burning of fossil fuels is the main CO2 contributor to the atmosphere, followed by clearing land for agriculture.

In environmental terms, meat production requires many more acres of cleared land and is more energy and water intensive to produce than the foods that constitute the average vegetarian diet.

Many of the fires on the island are due to farmers clearing their land for agricultural reasons.

Land - use change and degradation, such as clearing land for farming, releases the carbon bound up in soils, adding to the CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere.

The device is relatively simple to operate, thereby providing indigenous populations with the independence to clear land at their own discretion.

Becoming a vegan or vegetarian does not isolate one morally because clearing land and protecting crops causes harm to animals.

«When you're talking about clearing the land, it matters what land you're clearing,» she said.

Because you have to [completely] clear the land before planting the oil palm trees.

The long - term trend in deforestation will depend, in part, on continuing increases in livestock yields on existing cleared land.

We didn't properly clear the land and cut down trees the first time around, thinking we could work around the existing landscaping more than we actually could.

More farming, however, usually means more environmental harm as a result of clearing land, burning fossil fuels, consuming water for irrigation and spreading fertilizer.

But there is little new land to be brought under the plow unless it comes from clearing tropical rainforests in the Amazon and Congo basins and in Indonesia or from clearing land in the Brazilian cerrado.

The argument assumes that the supply of previously cleared land is inelastic (that is, agricultural land for expansion is unavailable without new deforestation).

Aside from clearing land for farming, American forests supplied Europe with wood.

In particular, opportunities under the new Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, mainly for people who created the problem by clearing our lands in the first place.

They operate the bulldozer and dig trenches, clear land surfaces, level grounds and make it favorable for construction work.

But this tale of young German POWs set to clear land mines in Denmark packed a very particular punch and a reminder - should any be needed - that no nationality escapes the sheer brutality of war and its aftermath.

Farmers can easily clear lands with the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup which Monsanto is also producing.

Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, climbed steadily during the first millennium due to massive fires set by humans clearing land for agriculture.

Farmers in sub-Saharan countries traditionally grew crops on cleared land for only a brief period before moving on to new areas, allowing the land to regain fertility.

According to a team of Brazilian and American researchers, the ant species that occupy cleared land are quite different from those in the original forest and their behaviour and choice of food has a major impact on whether trees can be re-established (CienciaHoje, vol 15, p 59).

More than a year in the making, the study provides deep, clear, and compelling evidence that indigenous people and traditional forest dwellers act as guardians of the forest — but only if they have clear land rights.

Ever since Australia's inhabitants cleared the land and endured the lash, not even droughts and flooding rains have stymied population growth.

Unlike other jets, the TriFan 600 is not limited by runway length, clear landing approaches, and the sophistication of the electronic landing aids that serve them.

They established their monasteries far from other human habitation, where the monks, aided by lay brothers, with their own hands cleared the land and erected their buildings.

Deforestation for agriculture often involves slash and burn practices and in the most egregious situations farmers will attempt a zero - input scenario and leave the coffee behind when it becomes unproductive only to start over with a freshly cleared land.

«Beef production has traditionally been linked to deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil; many cattle ranchers used cleared land after deforestation for livestock production,» he said.

Moreover, many people clear land by fire, which releases still more noxious gases.

Skutsch agrees that helping indigenous groups secure clear land titles is important, however, because stronger deeds «would make it more difficult for external companies to encroach [on] their land.»

In 2008, a bulldozer clearing land for a development near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel revealed an opening to a limestone cave that had been sealed for more than 15,000 years.

But the air above cleared land warms faster and therefore rises more quickly, drawing the moist air from surrounding forested areas away.

Still others claim that officials who support a proposal to build the Trans Adriatic Pipeline from Turkey to Europe via Puglia need to clear the land now occupied by olive groves to secure the lucrative deal.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

Most of the emissions from clearing land happen right away, a step that makes corn ethanol's greenhouse emissions look very bad at first before they gradually improve over longer and longer time periods.

Two thousand years ago, our ancestors were burning vegetation clear land for farming and to scare game into theopen.

The Forestry Commission's head of forest practice, Bob Selmes, says that the requirement to replant may be waived if clearing the land is part of a plan to restore the bog.

Sediment washed into the lake from cleared land loads up the underwater slopes and makes them more prone to failure during an earthquake, she noted.

Legend has it that to encourage the sepoys * to thoroughly clear the land, he loaded a cannon with gold coins and had them shot into the jungle.

Clear all landing space below the tube, levels or ladders to prevent injury if a hamster falls.

To end the northern hill tribes» dependence on growing poppies for the illegal drug trade, Thailand's late beloved Princess Mother Mae Fah Luang cleared the land of these bewitching red and white flowers and planted substitute cash crops.

The Riau Police have named 85 suspects for allegedly clearing land by burning, which resulted in haz...

As players clear lands of enemy control, they can discover new lands, or runes, by selecting a «wild rune» from the game's menu, or by scanning real world QR codes or bar codes on physical objects.

The aim is to lead a team of up to six soldiers through turn - based skirmishes that prevent alien abductions, clear landed spaceships and rescue civilians.

It was not until I started comparing the daily temperature range between a Desert (or recently cleared land) as opposed to a Rain Forest that I found out how important that change in the humidity is.

Mr. Venter and his colleagues used the example of Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, to examine whether clearing the land for more oil palm plantations or paying to conserve the forest would offer greater value.