Sentences with phrase «from vast tracts»
All around the world, rural depopulation is leading to forest regrowth in abandoned areas — from the vast tracts of secondary broadleaf woodland in America's New England states to tropical forests in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and many other areas.
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The company said it would stop accepting ads from Russian - owned broadcaster RT and its associated news agency Sputnik, whereupon RT published details of Twitter's pitch to sell vast tracts of election - related ad space on its network.
To get from his home to the factory that he owns on the other side of town, Zak Pashak, the owner and president of Detroit Bikes, takes Joy Road, a notorious Detroit artery whose name belies the mirthless array of derelict houses, boarded - up storefronts and vast, empty tracts of overgrown land that line it.
posting vast tracts from your story book may give you pleasure but they really mean nothing.
Steve Lohr, who helped his father, Jerry — the «J» in J. Lohr — plant the family vineyards when he was 10 years old, speaks proudly of his dad's decision to leave the oak trees on the vast tracts of property that make up J. Lohr Vineyards, rather than squeezing every last dollar from the ground.
That's what the government has called vast tracts of land outside our towns and cities that it has wanted to protect from development - as if they were full of birds, bugs and gentle hedgerows.
TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. >> Once the place where garbage collected from around the town of Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needs.
Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.
Due to its porous nature and negative electrical charge, activated charcoal can bind to a vast variety of drugs and toxins in the digestive tract, preventing them from absorbing into the bloodstream and safely escorting them out of the body.
The vast majority is converted from T4 in the liver and from the bacteria in the GI tract.
And if the state of the «global environment» were of significant concern, then we'd be asking ourselves how to get ruminants back onto the vast tracts of land that we've removed them from — land that has been pillaged by plows and chemicals.
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.
Gillis looks at the warning signs from the world's forests and the signals aren't good: wildfires, drought and insect infestations are putting vast tracts of forests under extreme stress, leading to feedback loops that result in more CO2 in the atmosphere.
The Dutch multi-utility company Delta, which constructed and operates the 150 million euro plant, is calling it a carbon - neutral effort as it will preclude the emission of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane from chicken waste, which is usually laid out as fertilizer over vast tracts of farmland.
«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.
The 1997 Delgamuukw decision evoked visions of vast tracts of hunting territory, «exclusively used and occupied» by a First Nation (essentially, being under the sovereign power of a First Nation), that were declared to be, in the present day, lands from which the First Nation was entitled to exclude all others, even the Crown.