Sentences with phrase «huge tracts»

A couple of small examples might be Maui Land and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New Mexico.

The bramble bush throws long and strong arching stems across huge tracts of land — often impeding the traveler.

TIAA - CREF Global Agriculture, one of the largest corporations on the international land market, is buying huge tracts of land in Brazil's Cerrado region.

Madagascar's president was driven from office last week after waves of protests and violence that may have been triggered by the purchase of a presidential jet and a plan for South Korea to lease huge tracts in Madagascar for agriculture.

Mining companies have long held pastoral leases covering huge tracts of the state to assist with land access.

He obtains permission from landowners beforehand — Welch says he's found most landowners are curious about their properties» past but lack the time or manpower to explore often huge tracts of land.

Cameroon is among a growing list of African nations hoping to follow in the steps of so - called «Asian tigers» like Malaysia and Indonesia, which have made hundreds of billions of dollars by converting huge tracts of rainforest into palm oil plantations.

Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with switchgrass — a native North American perennial grass (Panicum virgatum) that often grows on the borders of cropland naturally — and proving that it can deliver more than five times more energy than it takes to grow it.

The Vikings were unloosed and for almost three centuries raids and settlements by these Scandinavian warriors devastated huge tracts of the English islands and threatened to supplant the language which had begun to show such astonishing promise.

I'm talking about the word - zombies who sit in front of a keyboard for inhuman lengths of time pecking away at the keys as they brain - dump huge tracts of lies they call novels.

Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China and India have descended on fertile plains across the African continent, acquiring huge tracts of land to produce wheat, rice and corn for consumption back home.

Long before the present alarms about global warming through the emission of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, climate researchers were puzzled by the phenomenon of the Ice Ages and the «interglacials» that punctuated those long periods when the Arctic ice extended from the North Pole to the Atlantic coast of France, and over huge tracts of North America.

No one in Brazil would be burning huge tracts of the Amazon if they enjoyed the agricultural productivity we do in the US.

It commandeers huge tracts of coastal land, displacing thousands of coastal people, while offering a paltry number of jobs in return.

Presumably if we can install individual solar on 100 % of living areas in the USA to achieve ~ 40 % of our electricity, then for a similar investment we could put huge tracts of solar in more optimal areas and get 100 %.

For the second time in just 12 months, scientists have recorded severe coral bleaching across huge tracts of the Great Barrier Reef after completing aerial surveys along its entire length.

The search giant has been buying huge tracts of rural land for new mega-data centers, hundreds of acres larger than needed.

In January 2017, British and Congolese scientists announced in Nature that huge tracts of peat have been hiding in a lush expanse of forest straddling the equator in the Central Congo Basin.

Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic English nobleman, had been given a huge tract of land just north of Virginia, and the king had granted him absolute control over the area.

Oren talks constantly about finding the wide - ranging mapinguari so that huge tracts of land would have to be set aside to protect the creature.

Corporations are buying up huge tracts of land and fencing them in, driving open - range cowboys, like Marvin and Palance, to near extinction.

In the 1980s, spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his Rajneeshpuram followers purchased a huge tract of land in Oregon.

After learning they had inherited an enormous mansion and a huge tract of land from a reclusive set of relatives, Steve and Sarah Miller decide to take a few days off to investigate their new - found fortune in the quiet northern Idaho resort town of Coeur d Alene.

As a result, huge tracts of the island appear to come alive with bright red, roving, shell - covered bodies.

But recent lease sales held by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-- auctioning off huge tracts of the reserve to the oil and gas industry — don't bode well for the future of this important habitat.

With the tar sands expansion, and all the pipelines, and the Harper government's race to dig up huge tracts of the north, does it feel...

The huge tracts of land required for solar thermal are currently being granted tax - free status, a huge subsidy that absolutely no one is including in the costs.

It's unlikely that the remnants of the Tiangong - 1 will land in a populated area, with most of the Earth covered by water and huge tracts of uninhabited land.