Sentences with phrase «dry land environments»

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A hard - shell egg allowed animals to reproduce and thrive far from water, in the much harsher environment of dry land.

Despite this and other efforts, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) concluded in 1991 that the problem of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas had intensified, although there were «local examples of success».

You will need to fight for survival while exploring the dark and claustrophobic environments both at sea and as the action moves to dry land.

Students will compete in different environments which consists of dry land, flash flooding, and at night.

It must be noted that this project will be implemented during the dry season, thus decreasing and \ or minimizing the impacts onto the environment, both land and marine.

The player moves through an ever - changing environment, switching between dry land and underwater, but how you play in each environment is totally different.

As we've reported before, Australian permaculture practitioner Geoff Lawton has been aiming to fix that, developing demonstration permaculture projects specifically designed for dry land desert environments.

«UNITED STATES SENATE REPORT: From Preventing Pollution of Navigable and Interstate Waters to Regulating Farm Fields, Puddles and Dry Land: A Senate Report on the Expansion of Jurisdiction Claimed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act» (PDF), United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, September 20, 2016.

we have to understand and accept that the Mallee bio-forest, from the dry - lands to the swamp - lands, from the canopy to the forest floor is a unique interconnected species specific / environment specific entity that relies upon a stable, static geophysical situation to maintain it's integrity.

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