Sentences with phrase «covered by land»

They are not usually representative of those Indigenous groups that can not demonstrate traditional ownership of areas covered by the land council or NTRB, nor do they always have close ties to existing Indigenous community service organisations.

The Land Councils and Native Title Representative Bodies are limited in their scope for representation as they only generally represent Indigenous groups that can demonstrate traditional ownership of areas covered by the land council or NTRB.

Representation in Land Councils and Native Title Representative Bodies is limited to Indigenous groups that can demonstrate traditional ownership of areas covered by the land council or NTRB.

As the polar ice caps grow or melt, the surface area of the earth covered by land relative to that covered by water changes.

The amount of heat gained by the earth's surface depends on the surface area of the earth covered by water relative to that covered by land.

But alas, only 1/3 of the planet is covered by land right?

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.

Considering that the portion of the earth's surface covered by land is 57,268,900 miles, 2,000 square miles is just 0.000034 % of that number.

They also explain how the «sea ice extent around Antarctica» is very different from the sea ice in the Arctic because the Arctic is not covered by land, but by ocean, albeit mostly frozen most of the time, whereas Antarctica is a vast continent covered by massive ice sheets with the South Pole at its center.

Not exact matches

Then, when they finally reached land, they tried to land in Glasgow, Scotland, but the city was covered by clouds and fog.

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Around 30 % of the Earth's useable surface is already covered by pasture land for animals, compared with just 4 % of the surface used directly to feed humans.

For the Athenians died by famine; and the people of Samos were covered by the sea without remedy; and the Jews, brought to desolation and expelled from their kingdom, are driven away into every land.

In a blind headlong rush to gain profit by any means these forces have already begun to obliterate animal species, forest cover, fish stocks, water reserves, land and air, and have engaged upon a satanically mindless pilfering of finite resources by vandalism of Mother Earth, and have raised gigantic questions over human survival prospects.

I refer rather to the slow, sanctimonious extermination of the Indians, the system of occupying the land (Faustrecht), the competitive methods of the leading capitalist groups, the annexation of California along with the retrieval of Texas — all this and much besides show that the United States has always been ridden by violence, though the truth was covered over by a legalistic ideology and a moralistic Christianity.

His beautiful structures would soar into the air, releasing most of the land now covered by urban sprawl for agriculture, recreation, or wilderness.

Much of the land now covered by streets and buildings can be returned to agriculture or woodlands.

As to land and water on earth one theory holds that the earth was covered with water 3,000 meters deep when it was hit by large object that vaporized the surface leaving but a thin atmosphere and some water.

Almost 85 percent of land area of the City of Sipalay and Municipality of Hinobaan were covered by mining applications,» added Cordova.

1) Conserved natural ecosystems; 2) Areas being restored to natural ecosystems; 3) Tree cover within agroforestry or silvopastoral production plots2; 4) Gardens, live fences, riparian zones or border plantings; or 5) Off - site compensation areas, including land held in common by farmer groups that is not part of individual member farms3.

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.

Mr Buntine, whose vast land holdings in Australia's north once covered more than 2.8 million hectares, confirmed that a bid by the syndicate and foreshadowed in The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday, could soon be lodged with Kidman's sale advisers EY.

It diminishes soil productivity, reduces food production, deprives the land of its vegetative cover, and negatively impacts areas not directly affected by its symptoms, by causing floods, soil salinization, deterioration of water quality, and silting of rivers, streams and reservoirs109.

For the goal Bellerin had to run out to try and prevent Montero from crossing, why didn't Mertesacker read the game and cover him should he get by instead of waiting in no man's land on the penalty spot.

The name Val Gardena, by an ancient translation, means «pasture near a wood,» and it covers a lot of pasture land.

His Excellency Former President Mahama this weekend attendee the funeral of a sister of Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanteng late Bridget Darko who died from the La Gas Explosion.The former President was accompanied by the former Chief of Staff and few NDC stalwarts in the Region.The former President who quietly landed at the funeral, had to be whisked away by his bodyguard and other security operatives at the place to stop the enthusiastic crowd who suddenly rushed to cover every space around the former President.

He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

The confiscation in early years was covered briefly in «Broken Promises: The Status of Expropriated Property in the People's Republic of China» published in Asian American Law Journal by Elaine Sit in January 1996, especially land ownership.

Lands purchased by the Virginia - based Conservation Fund includes forests next to Cherry Plain State Park and the Capital District Wildlife Management Area, which cover about 4,300 acres in the southern Rensselaer County town of Stephentown.

«Any city that chooses to violate federal law by identifying itself as a «sanctuary city» risks the consequence of losing millions of dollars in federal funding, and I do not believe the State Legislature has the duty to help those municipalities cover their losses if they do not honor the laws of our land,» Griffo said.

Cost of the demolition is being covered by funding from the New York State Attorney General's Office that was secured by the Chautauqua County Land Bank.

In contrast, the equatorial plains, where the Huygens probe landed, are dry and covered with dunes that continue for long stretches, interrupted here and there by higher ground, all the way around the moon.

As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land covered by vegetation.

Related research by the UW researchers and their collaborators shows that global warming is now causing the land - covered Northern Hemisphere to warm faster than the Southern Hemisphere, further reversing the pre-1980s trend.

The researchers found that the presence and seriousness of gastrointestinal parasitic infections were higher in more urbanized areas with land covered by compact soil and cultivated vegetation.

«Because 70 percent of our planet is covered by water, if they're ballooning, they have to face landing on water,» says Hayashi.

«If you want to understand emissions, you need to understand land use and land cover change, especially when you have forests cut down and replaced by herbaceous vegetation.»

And that means the material challenge posed by rare earths won't be solved anytime soon, particularly as more wind farms cover the land, compact fluorescent lightbulbs and light - emitting diodes proliferate, and greater numbers of hybrid or electric vehicles hit the road.

«The simulations showed that what was very unique about this storm is that first, it was preceded by a very hot period, and so the land that was not covered with vegetation would be drier and it would be easier to entrain sand grains from it,» Bou - Zeid said.

The first group of prints — a 395 - million - year - old track created by a four - legged land vertebrate — made the cover of Nature last January.

While some forest - to - shrub land conversion scenarios resulted in higher stream flow, depending on factors such as the size and area covered by shrub leaves relative to tree leaves, Bart noted that a shrub - dominated landscape would not necessarily result in more water in stream.

Huygens came to rest in what looked to be a floodplain strewn with «stones» of water ice polished smooth by flows of liquid methane, and it touched down with a crunch that suggested its slushy landing site was covered in a frozen glaze — a bit like crème brûlée.

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 system starts with land cover images collected by U.S., European, and Russian satellites.

But today Britain is one of the least forested countries in Europe, with only 10 per cent of its land covered by trees.

Some 71 % of Earth's surface is covered by oceans and 29 % by land.

«In Japan, many important vertebrate fossils have been discovered by amateurs because most of the land is covered with vegetation, and there are few exposures of fossil - bearing Cretaceous rocks.

About 85 percent of Earth's ice - free lands is covered by vegetation.

Only 185 craters on Earth have been identified, and almost all are on dry land, leaving largely unexamined the 70 percent of the planet covered by water.

However, carbon dioxide fertilization isn't the only cause of increased plant growth — nitrogen, land cover change and climate change by way of global temperature, precipitation and sunlight changes all contribute to the greening effect.