Not exact matches
In mining, large
areas of
land are
cleared of trees and brush, then the top soil and clay are removed to expose the oil sand.
Cheryshev broke
clear down the left and found Enes Unal
in the centre of the penalty
area, and although Unal's shot was blocked by the onrushing Keylor Navas, it
landed to Fornals to chip a first - time shot over the despairing goalkeeper.
In 2002 35 percent of the total
area cleared of trees consisted of
land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small
areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.
Mr Allan said the study found that Niassa's protected
area status had helped save it from large - scale
land clearing that had occurred
in Mozambique.
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.
«The discovery of Shell indicates a
clear path toward more intensive use of already planted
lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the
land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest
land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists
in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.
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Information reaching our news room is that sometime last week, a bulldozer was
clearing land in the Blackburn
area of Crooked Tree Village when the incident occurred.
The waters are all
clear and often protected by the offshore reefs that can produce some of the world's best surfing and keep the water on the beaches flat for swimming and snorkeling
in the lagoons that can be difficult to find
in many
areas on the main
land of Bali.
Sir David Attenborough said this
area also has the cleanest body of water
in the world due to the lack of agricultural farming, industrial industries and lack of
land clearing and degradation.
- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to
land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six
areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden
in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new
areas -
in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and
clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have
in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found
in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is
in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo
in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned
in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».
You zip about the place, using one thumbstick to move and the other to aim whilst hammering the attack button
in order to
clear the
area of foes, but the whole thing just feels poorly optimized, with the aiming system so aggravatingly inaccurate that you'll often
land a shot on everything
in the immediate vicinity except your intended target.
Every time I
cleared a boss, I'd rush to the next
area with anticipation of what was next
in store, and what new
lands I'd get to explore.
As most of the young artists
in this exhibition have relocated to the greater Los Angeles
area, it is
clear that the Oxnartians have
landed, and they are here to stay.
Melillo and colleagues now report that if biofuel crops replace food crops on current farmlands, then the
clearing of forested
land for additional food crops will release more carbon from the soil there than
in the
areas where the biofuel crops themselves are being grown,» says the press release.
While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs
in the Amazon rainforest, production
in neighboring
areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then
clear rainforest
land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.
«They should adopt consistent reporting of
land and tree
clearing across states and the Commonwealth,
in line with best practice
in this
area — which has traditionally been the Queensland SLATS Scheme verified by field reporting.»
In a detailed study, the Amazon Institute of Environmental Research and Woods Hole Research Center found that 73 % of burned area in the Amazon was on previously cleared land, and that was during the 1990s, when overall deforestation rates were hig
In a detailed study, the Amazon Institute of Environmental Research and Woods Hole Research Center found that 73 % of burned
area in the Amazon was on previously cleared land, and that was during the 1990s, when overall deforestation rates were hig
in the Amazon was on previously
cleared land, and that was during the 1990s, when overall deforestation rates were high.
Moving away from the tropics
in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and
clear desert
areas over
land.
Last week, fellow TreeHugger Brian Merchant highlighted how over the past 10 years a full 80 % of the
land cleared in the Amazon has been for raising of beef cattle, and that that
area now is the size of the nation of Iceland.
A recent story
in Los Angeles Times reveals that narcotraficantes, or drug traffickers, are
clearing land in protected
areas in Guatemala's Peten region, an
area known for its exquisite biodiversity and ecological wealth.
It is probable that the political opposition is using this as something to hold against the government, but it's also undeniable that the
clearing of woods
in Argentina is a no - man's -
land area where local governments and companies do as they please.
But what you may not know is which nations really have the highest rates of deforestation, so here they are: When considering all these, for sake of comparison, even though Brazil gets a lot of the heat for Amazonian deforestation — and rightly so, considering the total
area of
land cleared — as a percentage of landmass
cleared it isn't even
in the the top twenty.
Which means that the proportion of heat
in the ocean as opposed to the atmosphere might be slightly different (big deal because the oceans store so much heat), that albedo might be slightly higher because you have less
areas covered by forests which are darker than
clear land and thus absorb more sunlight, and so on.
These space junk cleanup concepts could potentially help to
clear some of the debris which is currently littering the
area around Earth, but many of them still have one major drawback - they tend to focus on getting the junk to come back to Earth to
land in our oceans, which have enough problems without the added debris.
In Brazil — which has lost 55 million hectares since 1990, an
area three fourths the size of Texas —
land clearing for farms and ranches is the big driver.
Aboriginal law:
In 2005, the Grassy Narrows First Nation launched an action against Ontario after it issued a licence enabling Abitibi - Consolidated Inc. to
clear - cut an
area of
land.
They decided to buy some
land and have a fence around the property with
clear markings «do not enter» and warnings that there are «traps»
in the
area.
His forced descent meant he was far short of their intended
landing zone and he
landed in a bushy field instead of the
cleared landing area.
Often a mining tenement covers a large
area of
land and so the company and relevant Indigenous group agree to survey only the proposed work, resulting
in that particular proposal being
cleared or modified depending on the location and importance of sites.
I can pay the $ 35k and rehab it when I could just get a different property altogether for less or I spend another $ 8k to demo the existing property and
clear the lot and end up with a piece of
land that probably has no value (if houses
in that
area are worth $ 25k).
Looking out onto a
cleared land mine field
in western Cambodia during a 2007 visit, Marta Karpiel saw row after row of white sticks, each marking an
area where a mine had been removed.
Victoria Real Estate Board president Mike Nugent says, «We were asked to give up our
land, building, management and staff, and the ability to provide local input,» he says, adding that it was not
clear how new services, especially
in outlying
areas, would be delivered.
The goal is to obtain properties
in areas that may be risky but are ripe for a turnaround,
clear title to them and find a suitable developer, a process that's more laborious than it sounds, said
land bank Executive Director Brian White.