Sentences with phrase «destroyed large areas»

Community groups recently filed a complaint with the IFC that the Tata Mundra coal - fired project was based on «skewed» economics, and has destroyed large areas of mangroves, cut off access to grazing lands and salt - panning flats, and made it more difficult for the poor to get energy.

First, all cultures, regardless of religion, have abused or destroyed large areas of the world either because of economic or population pressures or from simple ignorance.

These methods «contribute only around one per cent of the EU's total catch, yet suck up millions of euros in subsidies, destroy large areas of fragile sea - floor and overfish many deep - sea species,» Greenpeace fisheries expert Saskia Richartz said in the statement.

Psy - Pulse is capable of destroying large areas even through thick walls, although it is only granted after killing six enemies.

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That could turn a waterway into what one expert calls a «dead sea,» destroying aquatic life over potentially large areas.

«The Manorville area was hit by two large wildfires in April, one of which destroyed homes and displaced residents,» said Legislator Romaine.

In central British Columbia, the insects have destroyed more than 14 million hectares of trees — an area the size of Connecticut — in the single largest outbreak the world has ever seen.

Last of the Amazon In the time it takes to read this article, an area of Brazil's rain forest larger than 200 football fields will have been destroyed.

The large - scale production of palm crops in these areas has also driven native people from their homes and destroyed their sources of income (as many of them rely on the rainforest for food or their livelihoods.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

This fruitful and comprehending book is perhaps a key to all his work; it is at any rate one of the sharpest indictments of an era in which science was allowed most unscientifically to destroy humanity in large areas of the civilized world, and with it science itself.

The caveat to this is that in the event of a large fire in a densely populated area, it's not unheard of for firefighters to intentionally destroy buildings adjacent to the blaze to prevent it from further spreading.

As the world's largest no - kill animal rescue and adoption organization, we continuously take animals out of harm's way — whether it's rescuing them from other shelters where they would be destroyed; pulling them out of national emergency areas, saving them from the perils of puppy mills and so many other places where they would be abused or euthanized.

They burn large areas and destroy habitat for money.

Tragically, the Spanish conquistadores, saw a lot of monetary value in the gold and destroyed the Inka Empire that stretched through large areas of the Andes in South America.

Once activated in specific spots on the map known as Heat areas, players can lead the large group of soldiers on horseback or on foot, or have static archers rain hundreds of arrows from above, causing massive damage to a large group of enemy soldiers, as well as destroy barriers that can keep you from progressing forward.

Near the end of the level you will reach a large wall that requires detective mode's thermal vision to unlock a switch, after you jump through the door pay close attention to the large SILER LEGO plate on the ground, destroy it to open a portal to the secret area.

Its floods knocked out electrical power in all areas above 59th Street in Manhattan and in all of the Bronx, the new IND subway line lost power, and 100 large trees in Central Park were destroyed.

The combination of flash floods, lahars, and ash would prove deadly for the people of Iceland; the eruption would destroy and poison large areas of agriculture within Iceland.

So EVERY source of energy that has the slightest positive contribution to our energy needs is to be fought tooth and nail, bringing to bear the full force and majesty of our regulatory juggernaut to not only prevent the development of new resources but to destroy existing resources (drive to destroy Hetch Hetchy dam, which supplies power and a large part of the water for SF Bay area for example and will be replaced with???) in the fight to «save the planet»?

There are ways to grow oil palms in sustainable ways, but clearing large areas of forest growing on peat soils, further endangering wildlife (the orangutan being the most prominent example), and destroying biodiversity in general is not the way to do it.

The caveat to this is that in the event of a large fire in a densely populated area, it's not unheard of for firefighters to intentionally destroy buildings adjacent to the blaze to prevent it from further spreading.