Sentences with phrase «from rain forest»

Indonesia could also impose a special tax on companies that profit from rain forest destruction, with the revenues dedicated to forest and orangutan conservation.

Besides, NASA satellites show major carbon outflows coming from the rain forest, so you'd better nuke that as well...

We have all heard about medicines that come from the rain forest.

Along the way you witness the transition from rain forest to cloud forest as you reach an altitude of over 3600 feet (1200 meters) above sea level.

More than a hundred animal and insect species are lost every day from rain forest destruction — a crucial, irreparable blow to the biodiversity essential to maintaining our planet's healthy ecology.

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Any man who wanders in a scant span of 15 miles from rain forest into arid plains of cactus and algarroba and sees snow crests standing over tropic water naturally comes to wonder about the excitements of this varied land.

Guatemala is a true backpacker experience from the rain forests and Mayan temples in the north to the Volcanoes in the south.

From the rain forests at the tip of Queensland, through the endless outback, to the sun - drenched coastlines, Playground Games says it has explored and represented every ecological quirk of the country.

Not exact matches

With 878 islands as part of its territory, Malaysia has a variety of landscapes, from pristine beaches to mountains and rain forests.

At the same time they espoused «principles before profits» and a commitment to making the world — from the New York City subways to the Pentagon to the Amazon rain forest — a better place.

Runa, a Brooklyn - based company, brews beverages from guayusa, produced from a leaf native to the Amazon rain forest.

In summary, we would point out that from 1960 to 1980 beef production in Central America increased 160 percent; of the 400,000 square kilometers of rain forest that existed in 1960 in Central America less than one - half remained by 1980 (Myers 1981).

Irrelevant but personally changing question that I have found - In certain areas of the rain forests in South America there are tribes that have never seen a person from the outside world in thousands of years and have only in the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplane.

As farmers are driven from their homesteads, many go into the jungle to clear new land for crops, with the result that some 1.75 million acres of rain forest have been lost.

They are taken up by plants again with such efficiency that the water that runs from the undisturbed Amazonian rain - forest is virtually the same as distilled water in composition.

We will continue working with the Rain Forest Alliance on coffee certifications, and will look to expand sources from Ethiopia and other parts of Africa, as well as Central America.

Our certifications verify the palm plantations we source from are not developed by removing rain forests, but by converting pre-existing agricultural land to palm oil production.

A delicous blend of three of our favorite sauces, Beesting Brand Rain Forest Honey Mustard, Pirates Blend Caribbean Condiment and the Iguana Gold Island Pepper Sauce, this dish is truly something from a far away land!

From an environmental perspective, Earth Balance does contain palm oil and the Palm Oil industry is having a terrible impact on rain forest destruction.

Bob Norman, general manager of GreenPalm, said: «It's in your lipstick, your hand cream, your shaving gel and the stuff you use to wash your clothes — and it could be destroying rain forests, removing apes» habitats and driving forest communities from their homes.»

Heavy rain kept us from penetrating deep into the surrounding Lorogi Forest, so we had no chance to check for signs of rhino or elephant.

«If we can't save our 20 - acre oak savanna from development, how can we save the rain forests?»

Even as the color of rain forests and wetlands enjoys a wave of unprecedented popularity, with everyone from NBC («Green is Universal») to Hertz («Make the world a little greener») wrapping themselves in shades of emerald, pine and avocado, cutting - edge activists and advertisers have begun to look elsewhere.

In her book, Parenting for Primates, she offers parents valuable knowledge gleaned from the four months she spent in the Peruvian rain forest observing primates as well as the 30 years that she managed a colony of tamarin monkeys in her own home.

The suspects, who are believed to be from Togo and other neighboring countries, are said to have been operating in the Atiwa Rain Forest Reserve for about two months using sophisticated...

At the current market value for carbon, a hectare of rain forest, if left intact, could be worth anywhere from $ 400 to $ 8,000 or more.

Forty - five excellent drawings realistically depict Brazil's rain forest and its interesting inhabitants - from animals, to tribes - people and plants.

If correct, the theory would explain how the deep interiors of forested continents get as much rain as the coast, and how most of Australia turned from forest to desert.

The period when the insect lived, the Eocene, was one of the warmest in history, and lush tropical or subtropical rain forest surrounded the lake; the two - and - a-half-inch-long adult male most likely sat and snacked upon the leaves of plants from the laurel or the pea family.

When he and his colleagues examined 98 soil samples, from the Arctic tundra to the Amazonian rain forest, they were floored by the results.

Dust can be beneficial to parts of the planet, as when it travels from the Sahara to the Amazon Basin, where it deposits phosphorus that helps keep the rain forest lush.

His reports have originated from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing during the SARS epidemic, the center of Greenland, the Amazon rain forest, the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (for a story on tuberculosis) and Japan to cover the nuclear aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.

Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest.

Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.

Deep in the rain forest, where people are cut off from transportation and cellular networks, mortality is the highest, access to health care is the most limited and quality of care is the worst.

At a remote rain forest site in Guatemala last February, archaeologist David Lee happened upon the find of a lifetime: a royal tomb from the seventh century A.D. that suggests war was not strictly a man's game in ancient Mayan society.

He directed a team that built a 40,000 - cubic - foot rain forest for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and he has engineered everything from replicas of the leaves and buds of a groundnut vine at the Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum to the skeletal mount for Sue, the world's largest T. rex, at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Concentrations of two other chemicals in the ice cores, vanillic acid (a chemical formed when conifer forests burn) and non — sea salt sulfur (a primary component in acid rain), helped distinguish between soot from natural sources and that from industrial pollution.

Growing meat from single cells could reduce the opportunity for disease and contaminants to enter the food supply and eliminate the environmental impact (such as clearing Amazon rain forest to create grazing land) of raising livestock.

«When you fragment the rain forest, hot winds from the surrounding pastures blow into the forest and kill many trees, which just can't handle the stress,» explains team member Henrique Nascimento of Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research.

Rainey urges consumers to support conservation efforts and make sure any rain forest wood they purchase has Forest Stewardship Council certification, which ensures that the wood comes from logging conducted in a way that protects haforest wood they purchase has Forest Stewardship Council certification, which ensures that the wood comes from logging conducted in a way that protects haForest Stewardship Council certification, which ensures that the wood comes from logging conducted in a way that protects habitat.

Lacking competition from other elk species in North America, they spread widely across many habitat types, from Pacific Northwest rain forests to sagebrush deserts.

What's settled science now, however, is that just as the Amazon is dependent on the rain and sunlight provided by the sky, the sky is dependent on the nourishment from the forest.

Previously called a «water tower» because it supplied water to the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria, the forest region has dried up; in 2009 the rainy season — from August to November — saw no rain, and since then precipitation has been modest.

Saving chocolate Because the threats to cocoa production come from pests, disease, climate change and poverty, work must be done on all these issues to raise yields without tearing down rain forests to gain arable land.

Iron - rich sediment from deserts feeds plankton blooms in the ocean and plants in the upper canopy of tropical rain forests.

2 There are more than 2,500 varieties of mosquito (some entomologists claim 3,000) whining from the Arctic tundra to the tropical rain forests.

Similarly, researchers have traced nitric oxide rising from Kentucky and Tennessee and drifting toward the Great Smoky Mountains, where researchers have observed some of the worst acid rain and forest decline, says William H. Schlesinger, president of the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.

Elephants that dwell in Africa's rain forests were shown to be a different species from those that roam the savanna.