Sentences with phrase «green vegetation cover»

It registers change in all forest and woodland areas that have lost at least 40 percent of their green vegetation cover over the past year.

Not exact matches

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

The darkest green areas are the lushest in vegetation, while the pale colors are sparse in vegetation cover either due t o snow, drought, rock, or urban.

«The results showed that, during moisture deficit periods, green turf cover (GTC), normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and leaf relative water content (RWC) were most affected by substrate depth, moderately affected by irrigation regime, and, to a lesser extent, by substrate type,» the authors said.

These once remarkably green islands covered in lush vegetation are now brown covered in uprooted trees and debris from destroyed homes and buildings.

Similar to the LaGuardia lounge, the reception area has a reception area with a green wall (a wall covered largely in vegetation).

Two volcanoes appear to rise from the lake, the shores of which are mountains covered with vibrant green vegetation.

In the area, you can find 17 hot springs which lay in a canyon covered with lush green vegetation.

The Belize Butterfly House, Located in the Cayo district, between limestone's hills covered with lush vegetation one will find «Green Hills», the Belize Butterfly Ranch and Botanical Collections.

It happens because a long time ago those places were covered by luxuriant green vegetation that does not exist anymore.

And I want to appeal to all the people of the world to cover the earth with her cloth of green vegetation.

In Chicago, the green roof we helped design for City Hall is covered with mostly native vegetation, which offers urban habitat to the butterflies and birds of the region.

Its green roofs are packed with dense vegetation and the exterior walls are also covered in greenery.

A green roof is a supplemental system that covers a structural roof with a layer of vegetation.

To find out exactly how much greening Arctic warming would bring, the team used a model that projected how temperature changes would affect snow cover, vegetation, and the increased evaporation and transpiration from plants in the Arctic.

«Greening of the Earth and its drivers», published in Nature Climate Change, showed that up to half of the Earth's vegetation - covered land is now «greener» than it was 30 years ago — mostly caused by rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Other administrations have been encouraging green roofs — rooftops covered in vegetation: they are a legal requirement for big new developments in Toronto; there are floor area bonuses for developers who include them in Portland, Oregon; and Chicago had a funding scheme for a while.

Also known as a «living roof», a green roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation, which is most often sedum.