Sentences with phrase «destroyed by mountain»

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Over the past decade, mountain pine beetles, boosted by mild winters, have devastated tens of millions of acres of forest across the American and Canadian West, and summer droughts have destroyed many more.

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.

The collapse of the mountain which triggered a tsunami that destroyed an Arctic village last month may have been caused by climate change — and more may follow

When a prospecting stage is accidentally destroyed on a frozen mountain pass by mishandled nitro - glycerin, sending a horse aflame and galloping away in agony, Winterbottom illustrates with dreadful clarity the price of man's intrusion and presaging the railroad's eventual domestication of the wild land.

Track of the Cat William Wellman, USA, 1954, 35 mm, 102m Mitchum reunited with his Story of G.I. Joe director William Wellman («I was very, very fond of him,» Mitchum said of Wellman, «and he tolerated me») for a different kind of movie, based on a Walter Van Tilburg Clark novel, about a homesteading family in snow country whose livestock is being destroyed by a roaming mountain lion.

Miles - long clouds of the insects blanketed the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains by then, destroying untold acres of crops and bringing tens of...

Instead of destroying the source of our problems, we send mountains of money to the people affected by the problem.

It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation in the cold, Winter snow) and native ones like noisy miners and eastern rosellas.

Founded in A.D. 757, then destroyed by invading Arabs and Berbers, Oviedo's more permanent beginnings date to the early 800s when King Alfonso II moved his court from the nearby mountain town, Cangas de Onis, and rebuilt the sacked city.

Get the Bronze Egg from the Banjo - Kazooie game pak in a cracked grate which can be destroyed by a grenade egg and flown into at Spiral Mountain

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

The authors write that «the extensive tracts of deciduous forests destroyed by [mountain top mining and valley filling] support some of the highest biodiversity in North America, including several endangered species.»

Over 2,000 miles of stream have been buried by mountaintop removal alone and mountaintop removal has destroyed 10 % of the land in central Appalachia — more than 500 mountains.

It also revealed that more than 500 mountains have been severely impacted or destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.

Magazine Kayford Mountain, destroyed by mountaintop removal mining.

Entire farms and villages were destroyed by glaciers descending from mountains.

Kayford Mountain, destroyed by mountaintop removal mining.

By 2009, mountaintop removal coal mining in Central Appalachia had destroyed an estimated 470 mountains and had buried or polluted 2,000 miles of rivers and streams.

Marfork had been virtually destroyed by mountaintop removal mining, which involves completely blasting off the tops of mountains so that huge machines can mine thin seams of coal.

A study in 2009 showed that nearly 1.2 million acres to date had been surface mined for coal, and more than 500 mountains destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.

More than 500 mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.