Sentences with phrase «huge areas of forest»

Mining, particularly gold mining, on the other hand opens up huge areas of the forest and also invites contamination from mercury — which is either dumped in the river or burned and then inhaled by the miners and their families.

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As a result, the vast area of tropical forests has been destroyed to develop huge plantation of corn, tapioca, cotton and other commercial products.

After all, the bank is well known for financing huge projects in developing countries that have made it an accomplice in the pollution of rivers, the burning of forests, and the strip mining of huge areas.

Huge areas of pine forests in the mountains east of Los Angeles are dead because of smog from Los Angeles.

Race between sinks and sources Northern Eurasia plays an important part in the global carbon cycle because of its large areas of forest and huge soil carbon reservoirs, he added.

Fire is a natural part of the ecology of many forests, but when fires get out of control they can burn huge areas and spread to neighboring homes and settlements.

This area has a huge passion for the protection of the national parks system which makes the place unique for its hundreds of acres of protected forest.

The area is ufll of incredible wild life, nature reserves, forests, tropical jungles and most importantly huge swells where one can surf at anytime of the year.

-- 16 missions in the campaign (from huge cities to canyons and mountains)-- 15 different zombies (common, armored, invader, splitter, spawner...)-- Three difficulty levels + infinity mode — Day & Night cycle (zombies are stronger at night)-- Weather changes (snow, rain, fog, heat, hurricane) and you should adapt your tactics — Land areas (Swamp, forest, cold, biohazard, Radiation)-- Dozens of different building to invest and adapt to your needs.

So for example to sequester 60 % of emissions forests would require doubling the area of the planet planted in forests, which is huge and is simply not viable, because the land is simply not available.

Called the «humongous fungus,» a growth of Armillaria ostoyae now devastating areas of Oregon's Malheur National Forest consists of one huge organism linked together by nets of underground tendrils known as rhizomorphs.

The vast majority of those 131 million acres are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified forests (about 130 million acres, or almost 30x more than Quebec's new huge protected area), while about 1 million acres are «Rainforest Alliance Certified» farmland from the agriculture program, though that number is growing fast: «In just one year, the number of certified farms increased from 25,640 to 31,156.».

Huge areas of hardwood forest in the state of Virginia are being chainsawed to create «biomass» energy in Britain as the government attempts to reach targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in efforts to tackle climate change, an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches...

There are a number of man - made contributory factors that may have had specific impacts on the atmospheric heating, e.g. local warming in the cities (due to housing, roads, and other resultant factors), smoke and dust over long distances or deforestation of huge forest areas.

After a century of suppression, a photograph of the same area from 1981 (Figure 1D below) shows a vast expanse of interconnected forest with a high fuel load now dominating landscape and primed for a huge fire.

«Today's ruling makes sure that coal mines can't build roads in Colorado's precious national forest roadless areas unless and until the Forest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation Advoforest roadless areas unless and until the Forest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation AdvoForest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation Advocates.

In many parts of the world trees and forests have been cleared from huge areas; Australia has lost a very large proportion of the scrub, woodland and forest that it once had in its agricultural areas.

«We know that forests sequester huge amounts of carbon, so increasing the area of forest globally helps explain additional carbon sequestration opportunities that are available,» Professor Lowe said.»

Spruce and pine bark beetles have recently infested vast areas of forest in North America, killing huge numbers of trees.

«70,000 unfarmed hectares in the Niari region,» > translation > another huge area of rain forest destruction and wild habitat destruction for a bit of oil.

Olympia has dedicated a huge amount of resources to preserving their waterfront and the old growth areas of the surrounding forests.