Sentences with phrase «dry vegetation»

Large wildfires fed by dry vegetation scorched the West Coast.

RAUGH Furniture: Energetic Accumulator I (detail) 2008 Wood, Tung oil, bronze legs, rigid wrap, small glass jars with paint, paper, metal, fibers, rocks and dried vegetation on carpet 90 1/2 x 119 x 4 1/2 inches (229.9 x 302.3 x 11.4 cm)

Part conversation piece, part raisin maker, the box dryer is a cheap way to dry vegetation without sucking juice from a power grid.

The Energy Release Component provides one measure of fire danger that tracks how dry the vegetation is and, therefore, how likely it is to burn given the right ignition source, say a lightning strike or smoldering cigarette butt.

The trail is mainly dry vegetation oak and pine trees still see remains of the old volcanic crater, located at an altitude of 2200mts.

As wet season lands in the tropics, it brings with it an explosion of colour and the usually dry vegetation surrounding the lava tubes explodes with colour.

The conditions needed for bushfires - a continuous layer of dry vegetation coupled with hot, windy weather - are increasingly occurring in the Australian landscape, Professor Ross Bradstock, from the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires at the University of Wollongong, said.

Drought and extreme heat dried vegetation and peat bogs, creating dangerous fire conditions.

A combination of dry vegetation and the Santa Ana winds have fueled wildfires across Southern California, with the Skirball fire now threatening the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Known locally as «the island of the sun» and «the yellow island», Santa Maria boasts the sunniest climate of the Azores and a landscape characterised by dry vegetation and sandy shorelines.

RAUGH Furniture: Energetic Accumulator I 2008 Wood, Tung oil, bronze legs, rigid wrap, small glass jars with paint, paper, metal, fibers, rocks and dried vegetation on carpet 90 1/2 x 119 x 4 1/2 inches (229.9 x 302.3 x 11.4 cm)

«There's drought - induced tree mortality and we have just critically parched, dry vegetation, all (resulting in) just explosive fire conditions.»

Recently planted surfaces are in green, dry vegetation and fallow land are rust - colored, and dry and bare surfaces (principally desert) are pink and yellow.

This transition was marked by a shift toward unusually warm springs, longer summer dry seasons, drier vegetation (which provoked more and longer burning large wildfires), and longer fire seasons.

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Energetic Accumulator Assortment III 2008 Wood, bronze, felt, wool, sheepskin, crocheted scarf, turquoise, quartz, sea glass, paint chips, clay, dried vegetation, pine cones, rocks on carpet 132 x 108 x 14 inches (335.3 x 274.3 x 35.6 cm)

Warm brownish reds, unnamable grays, butter mixed with cream, and yellowish greens the color of dry vegetation.

Higher temperatures lead to drier vegetation that makes kindling for mega-fires of the kind that have been raging in Canada, Greece, Russia, China, South America, Australia and Africa.

Between the heat and the dry vegetation conditions, conditions are ripe for wildfires, which have broken out in multiple states, and Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned yesterday that global warming will mean even more extreme weather events.

Scientists attribute the increases to human - induced warming, which is drying vegetation, raising snow levels and causing snow to melt earlier in the season.

The drier the vegetation and soils, the more flammable they become.

Drier conditions resulting from suppressed rainfall can induce more dust and smoke due to the burning of drier vegetation (Ramanathan et al., 2001), thus affecting both regional and global hydrological cycles (Wang, 2004).

Their work is especially valuable in the face of the drought; the dry vegetation they're eating is the perfect food for fires.