Sentences with phrase «cover less land»

They cover less land, too.

Not exact matches

This indicates that depending on how much of the farm is covered by coffee, the requirement may actually be less than 20 % of the total land area.

But since its landing, close to 3 years ago, Curiosity has covered less then 11 kilometers of martian terrain.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

The losses at each stage are large, and as humans globally eat more and more meat, conversion from plants to food becomes less and less efficient, driving agricultural expansion and land cover conversion, and releasing more greenhouse gases.

Ground based temperature outside the US is much less covered, and much of all land based temperature (including US) possibly error laden.

Kent is known as «The Garden of England» for a reason, with less than 2 % of the land covered by buildings, there are plenty of beautiful outdoor spaces to traverse through with your date.

That's not all, as there is a New 3DS bundle coming August 26th as well, containing the handheld console, a pre-installed copy of Super Mario 3D Land, and two cover plates will be sold exclusively at Walmart and Target for only $ 149.99 which, is $ 50 less than the suggested retail price of any New 3DS bundle previously available.

The need is dire: Dependence on wood for cooking and heating has reduced the amount of forest cover from a healthy 25 percent at the beginning of the 1900s to less than 8 percent today, causing flooding, erosion, and landslides that have destroyed homes and arable land.

Combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas, and to a lesser extent deforestation, land - cover change, and emissions of halocarbons and other greenhouse gases, are rapidly increasing the atmospheric concentrations of climate - warming gases.

In winter, cloud cover often provides a blanket meaning less heat escapes from the underlying land.

The world's wetlands too — often at risk from human exploitation — cover less than 6 % of the planet's land surface, but they hold the most carbon per hectare.

Texas covers less than 0.2 % (1 part in 500) of the land area of the globe.

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

Keep in mind there's a dearth of insolation at high latitudes so albedo becomes increasingly less important so snow cover over land doesn't mean as much.

However, the fact that trees are generally darker than most other land coverings means that forested parts of the Earth's surface reflect away less incoming solar radiation, giving forests a warming effect.

Governments typically have less authority to regulate land use on private lands, and so have relied upon providing incentives to maintain forest cover, or to improve management.

They covered the same land area» less than 30 % of the Earth?s surface» housing recording stations that are poorly distributed, mainly in the US and Western Europe.

Less than 2 % of Haiti's forest cover remains since the 1915 - 1934 US occupation, which oversaw the majority of deforestation due to concentrated land ownership for plantations; with few tree roots to bind topsoil landslides are inevitable in heavy storms.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

Even in the absence of such an index, I believe it's well established that tree / plant area has increased in the last 30 years or so, in which case land use forcing (or at least the albedo part) would have been getting less negative for the period, adding to the warming trend; and that's without counting asphalt which obviously has greater sunlight absorption than the average land it replaces (and asphalt - covered surface has kept growing throughout this period).

This layer contains less overall change than the sum of 2001/2006 and 2006/2011 land cover change pixels as some transitioned through two classes from 2001 to 2006 to 2011.

4) If WV stayed the same on a planet entirely covered by land and all else being equal the equilibrium temperature of that planet would be much less than that of Earth because the faster response time in warming up from solar energy would be matched by an equally fast loss of energy at night and in winter.

In 1949, tropical forests covered 21 percent of the country's land area, but now less than 7 percent of Burma is forested.

These artificial rain storms allegedly covered 42 percent more land area, and the rain output was 137 percent more and produced 120,885 acre - feet of rain at a cost of less than $ 11 per acre - foot.

If this is the best such land area surface temperature assessment system on the planet (covering, as well, a broad range of metropolitan, suburban, and rural areas), and the quality of the system is now proven to be demonstrably more prone to error than had been previously assumed — with the preponderance of error shown to produce the impression of warming in excess of real conditions prevailing — what may be reliably inferred about surface temperature monitoring systems data from even less reliable thermometers all over the rest of the world?

These are less variable than Southern Ocean alone or the whole NH, where ice sheets did cover large parts of land during most of the time.

Statistics show this (from that first abstract) «This hot extreme, which covered much less than 1 % of Earth's surface during the base period, now typically covers about 10 % of the land area.

Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's land area and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm / year.

Forests now cover about 40 million sq km — just less than one - third of the Earth's land surface.

But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really means to be truly resilient — and this one comes from a former teacher turned urban farmer who is making a living from the land on less than half - an - acre of abandoned inner city real estate.We have, of course, covered the urban farming scene in Detroit many times over here on TreeHugger.

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.

Wetlands are less extensive than agricultural or forest lands, covering 0.7 - 0.9 billion hectares or 4 % -6 % of the land surface of the Earth, but they hold the most carbon per acre and offer 14 % of potential cost - effective natural climate solutions.

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