Sentences with phrase «forest of the north»

The mighty pulpwood forests of the North are being clear - cut to make paper, and octopuses are being netted by the millions for the great inking fleets of the Indian Ocean, all so American television critics can write a few more column inches this dim summer on the popularity of such «reality» programs as Big Brother, Survivor and The Real World.

Oxitec's target is Aedes aegypti, originally an inconsequential mosquito species in the forests of North Africa but now a worldwide carrier of dengue fever.

Examining a long - lived forest, researchers have found that Black Spruce trees, which dominate the northern forests of North America, succumb about five years after being weakened by environmental stresses.

A Special Section in Science this week examines forest health from the tropics to the boreal forests of the north.

The highest tree densities, calculated in stems per hectare, were found in the boreal forests of North America, Scandinavia and Russia.

Unlike the boreal forests of North America, which more frequently experience fires hot enough to kill most trees, the forests of Norway, Sweden, and Finland characteristically burn at low to medium intensity.

Until the modern era, the human mark on the northernmost forests of North America, Europe, and Asia was light.

Purging Pesticides White rot fungi, common in the forests of North America, use special enzymes to convert the carbon in trees to energy.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

The increasingly popular Warrior series, based in the forests of North America where four clans of feral cats fight to survive, launched in 2003 with Into The Wild.

As Betsy leaves the ferryman, she's shown galloping again through the purple night - forest of North Carolina.

Maybe you'd love to travel to Big Sur, and through the Wine Country and the redwood forests of the North Coast, out to Yosemite and down to the desert around Palm Springs....

This extensive route heads from Durban's beaches up through the forests of the north and south coasts and on into the reaches of the Drakensberg Mountains and the Lowveld.

In MASS MoCA's third - floor gallery, towering, twelve - foot pine logs evoke the tall pine forests of north Florida.

Serritella's current work in the exhibition is inspired by his physical response to nature and created in his new studio situated in the forests of North Carolina.

LuminArté Gallery presents Solar Explorations, a solo exhibit of Dallas based artist, Alison Jardine, showcasing new works from 2013, which were partly completed during the artist's residency in the Hambidge Center and forests of north Georgia.

People realized that only a small and diminishing remnant remained of the great ancient forests of North America, and the same fate threatened the rest of the planet's trees.

This sustainably managed wood from natural forests of North America, with excellent environmental credentials, is revered worldwide for its warmth of colour and fine finish.

This sustainably managed wood from natural forests of North America, with its excellent environmental credentials, is popular with designers, architects, specialist users and consumers around the world.

This sustainably managed wood from natural forests of North America, with excellentenvironmental credentials, is revered worldwide for its hardwearing property, delicate light colour and fine finish.

This highly sustainable, managed hardwood from natural forests of North America, with excellent environmental credentials, is considered where hardness and hardwearing properties may not be essential.

This sustainably managed wood from natural forests of North America, with excellent environmental credentials, is a key species in many export markets.

He argues convincingly that their numbers were far higher than previously thought; that, contrary to the Rousseauian picture of the isolated «noble savage» roaming the virgin forests with bow and arrow, the Indians practiced a great deal of intensive land and forest management, both in the temperate forests of North America, and in the tropical ones of Central America and Amazonia; and that, the genetic homogeneity of the Indians made them almost universally vulnerable to European diseases, particularly those that originated with the livestock that the Europeans brought with them (and to which the Europeans had relative immunity).

Here concern has centered less on the yellow pine forests that supply Drax's own pellet mill, and more on the forests of North Carolina and Virginia that supply its biggest outside supplier, Enviva.

Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) are found in the Boreal forests of North American and Eurasia, according to All About Birds.

Research Center (CRC) 40 + Hours per week in several universities in Sudan, including: the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum We studied the deciduous forests of the North western US.

Not exact matches

A recent study from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.

Winnebago CEO Randy Potts asked me eagerly when I mentioned the Brave on a recent visit to the company's headquarters in Forest City, in the heart of north Iowa farmland.

Frenchs Forest, postcode 2086, is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, 13 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district.

They, along with 150 other species of birds (which is equivalent to two - thirds of the birds in North America's forests), move each year from North America toward Central America and the Caribbean, going as far as South America, in order to spend the North American cold season in warmer latitudes.7

About the tenth century, when the ancient Scandinavians, the Vikings, were frequenting North America, the humid portion of the east, as far as the mid-east of what is now the United States of North America, was covered by a dense forest of 1.6 million square kilometers.

There, just a bit north and to the west, see how the leaves have caught the light and are glowing green right in the middle of the forest somehow, while the shadows gather?

On November 27, 1999, the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago released a letter over the signature of Executive Director Paul H. Rutgers to Paige Patterson, president of the SBC and of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, urging the SBC to «modify» its plans.

Maria Furlough is a wife, a mother of five, head of a women's ministry at Lake Forest Church in Huntersville, North Carolina, and author of Breaking the Fear Cycle: How to Find Peace for Your Anxious Heart.

One of the great gifts of coastal, rain forest living here in the north is that the sun rarely streams in and so I rarely feel guilty about the state of my floors.

When we can't see out of the forest of our emotions we lose our grasp on reality, we no longer can find true north in order to orient ourselves appropriately to move forward.

Political candidates have to learn how to speak Christian to win elections, says Bill Leonard, a professor of church history at Wake Forest University's School of Divinity in North Carolina.

Ms. Smith is enrolled in the master of theology program at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Besides R. Albert Mohler and Paige Patterson, presidents of Southern Baptist seminaries in Louisville, Kentucky, and Wake Forest, North Carolina, respectively, the signers included Harold O. J. Brown of Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte; R. C. Sproul of Lingonier Ministries in Florida; and Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. of First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia.

From their hidden source in the forest to their glory on the table, North America's finest culinary truffles are presented at their peak of ripeness at the height of the winter season, offering an authentic truffle experience found nowhere else on this continent.

Mark Matheny, a general contractor from Bozeman, Montana, and his partner, Dr. Fred Bahnson, were bow hunting for elk in the Gallatin National Forest about thirty miles north of West Yellowstone, Montana in early 1993.

The North Branch Trail weaves through the concrete jungle and riverside forests, connecting neighborhoods like Rogers Park and Edgewater; Uncommon Ground has its own organic beer and rooftop farm, while Devon Avenue is an entire strip of Chicago's best Indian restaurants.

In North America, Domtar — the continent's largest producer of uncoated paper — has committed to achieving Forest Stewardship Council certification on 100 percent of the land it owns and manages.

If you live in the industrialized global North — spending your days at an office desk, perhaps, or running around suburbs or cities, your trusty iPhone never more than a few inches away — you could be forgiven for thinking tropical forests have little do with your daily life (other than providing fodder for vacation daydreams, of course).

The Reserve contains the northernmost cloud forests in the world and is considered as one of the greatest biodiversity sites of North America.

We have invited friends and family to a lovely park called Dyrehavsbakken (The Deer Park Hill), a large forest park north of Copenhagen, and yes, deers do run around freely there!

We planned on stopping for lunch in Guerrero Negro, the last town of any size before traveling north through the cactus forests of the interior.

As you have no doubt further noticed, in Wake Forest you have chosen a school — as did I, in the University of North Carolina — where the sun rises and sets on basketball rather than on football.

The University of North Carolina, North Carolina State and Wake Forest lent temporary bleachers to increase the seating capacity at Duke Stadium from 35,000 to 56,000.