Sentences with phrase «for vast tracts»

The Trump administration's move to start rewriting a plan for vast tracts of Southern California desert lands could have long - term repercussions for renewable energy production and wildlife conservation.

The same goes for vast tracts of the planet.

For vast tracts of Saturday's game, Leeds were as good, if not better, than their opponents.

Not exact matches

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.

A vast tract of land which was once the home of 19th Century industry in iron and steel manufacturing is closer to becoming home for a vast 21st Century manufacturing complex.

For towns with vast tracts of land holdings like Minerva, Long Lake, North Hudson and Newcomb, the state share constitutes a significant chunk of their annual budgets — including about $ 3 million for the lattFor towns with vast tracts of land holdings like Minerva, Long Lake, North Hudson and Newcomb, the state share constitutes a significant chunk of their annual budgets — including about $ 3 million for the lattfor the latter.

For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with a lush inland sea or vast tracts of farmland.

In this way, human populations were able to increase and expand for millennia, converting vast tracts of pristine forest into semi-natural woodlands and less productive land into rangeland.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

Now, countries including China, Kuwait and Sweden are snapping up vast tracts of agricultural land in poorer nations, especially in Africa, to grow biofuels and food for themselves.

That's like saying an elderly person with reduced food intake, constipation, osteoporosis and a weak digestive tract (my granny for example) is far healthier than the vast majority of the population.

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

With the World Bank documenting that in vast tracts of India on any given day, one public - school classroom in five has no teacher present, parents craving an education for their kids must look to other providers.

The riches of the world were there for the taking in the sixteenth century, and there were vast tracts of ocean that had never been crossed.

Most people assume that «UTI» stands for Urinary Tract Infection but the vast majority of cats that are showing these UT signs do not have an infection yet they often leave the veterinary clinic with antibiotics and no culture and sensitivity to prove that an infection even exists.

Despite the critical role they play in coastal ecosystems, vast tracts of mangrove forests are commonly cleared to make way for shrimp ponds or beachfront developments.

Vast tracts of forests in Indonesia are being burned to make way for plam oil plantations.

The plaintiffs contended that the fossil fuel development plans for the vast Miles City, Montana, and Buffalo, Wyoming, federal tracts violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to account fully for the damage the coal, oil and gas would do to the environment, including the climate.

The combination of agriculture and the ravenous demand for wood led to the deforestation of vast tracts of what is now the eastern U.S..

Ditto for the design features of a carrier operating in an environment where «vast tracts of America's coastal states» are «flooded» vs. current designs.

And Professor Balmford says: «Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming.

When the aforementioned families protected land for public benefit, they were able to safeguard vast tracts of pristine wilderness.

But when plantations and processing plants move in, they clear cut vast tracts of tropical rainforest, destroying critical habitat for endangered species and violating the rights of forest - dependent communities.

«With lifetimes of hands - on experience drawn from across vast tracts of Amazon rainforest, Indigenous groups are well - placed to provide leadership in efforts to measure and monitor their forests - forests which they, themselves, have sustainably managed for centuries,» said WHRC Assistant Scientist Wayne Walker.