Sentences with phrase «in vast forests»

Language: English Genre: Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Debra Granik Actors: Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey Plot: A father and his teen daughter have lived for years off the grid in the vast forests of Portland, Oregon.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

Brazil nuts are often harvested from trees in the vast forests of Brazil and Bolivia.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me.

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Thousands of hectares of tropical forests in Latin America were converted into vast Gros Michel plantations.

The park is one of the last major remnants of the vast primary tropical forest that once spanned across present - day Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and is the largest island of forest remaining in West Africa, according to the UNESCO -LSB-...]

A Bite Inspired By... Shenandoah National Park in Luray, Virginia: Imagine rolling hills, sweeping forests, and gorgeous wildflowers dotting vast meadows.

Nevertheless, Rangers were understandably on the front foot for the vast majority of the second half only to find Wes Morgan and Luke Chambers in superb form at the heart of the Forest defence.

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HVCC has recently set up an annex in Luther Forest near the vast GlobalFoundries computer chip factory to tap the need for technical training, said Tom Wood, chairman of the county board of supervisors.

Local governments and environmental groups have united to blast an executive state budget proposal to use payment - in - lieu - of - taxes agreements instead of market value to calculate taxes on the vast Forest Preserve holdings in the Adirondack Park and the Catskills.

Then it would either explode just aboveground — as one most likely did in 1908, leveling a vast forest in the Tunguska region of Siberia — or gouge a crater 20 times its size.

Vast plumes of smoke from forest fires and agricultural burning are common in the Amazon Basin and elsewhere in the tropics, Rosenfeld notes.

ALBUQUERQUE — Because forests can lock away carbon in their woody trunks, planting vast swaths of trees on barren land could provide a means for countries to mitigate their carbon emissions.

Armed conflict has kept developers out of these forests, resulting in vast swathes of intact rainforest and a high diversity of frogs.

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.

Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.

But when he pulls over trees, exposillg the soil at their roots, in a vast area of uninhabited mopalli (valley) forest, what does it matter?

In this way, human populations were able to increase and expand for millennia, converting vast tracts of pristine forest into semi-natural woodlands and less productive land into rangeland.

In Germany, with vast tracts of forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible level.

IN 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote foresIN 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote foresin the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote forest.

When they lived, in the early Miocene, temperatures in New Zealand were warmer than today and semitropical to warm temperate forests and ferns edged the vast palaeolake.

Few predators can crack the globe - shaped spiny urchins, which in unchecked hordes will chew through the holdfasts of the kelp, leaving vast barrens in place of the vibrant forests.

It's an appealing idea, a vast forest to soak up the extra carbon released due to Trump's policies, but it may not be so easy in reality, says Olive Heffernan

The flow of CO2 into and out of the vast northern forests has been increasing in recent years, thanks to climate change

The vast staghorn coral forests of Jamaica were a favorite playground for the first scuba - diving reef ecologists in the 1960s and»70s.

And in more temperate regions, bugs could even benefit: As the pine beetles eating their way through the vast boreal forests of western North America prove, changes in climatic patterns can help insect pests by allowing them to survive through the winter.

Less than 150 years ago, vast areas of forest in New England were cleared for agricultural use and to supply timber for local development.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns.

The vast magnificent savanna, forests, wooded savannas, and deep rivers habitats remain largely intact with potential for recovery of wildlife populations if urgent and robust conservation security measures are taken in this strategic area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), ECOFAUNE + / AGRECO, and the Ministry of Environment of Central African Republic said in a report issued today.

No one — not Dos Santos or any of the other villagers of Barra do São Manuel, a tiny settlement on the banks of the Tapajós River deep in the Brazilian Amazon, or anyone else in the vast rain forest — relishes facing it, with or without shotgun in hand.

This «biotic pump» model contends that a vast forest such as the Amazon draws in large amounts of water vapor.

But we already have some good terrestrial carbon sequestration systems, including the vast subarctic peat forests of Russia and North America, the huge equatorial peat forests of Borneo, the Amazon basin and the smaller forests in New Zealand, Tasmania and South America.

Working mostly out of the Arctic Institute's Kluane Lake Research Station in Yukon, the U of T Scarborough Biology Professor has become intimately familiar with Canada's vast and unique boreal forest ecosystem.

Carbon dioxide concentrations will probably drop below 400 ppm by midsummer, as the vast forests of the Northern Hemisphere leaf out fully and begin breathing it in.

The ultimate goal of Woolly Mammoth revival is to bring back this extinct species so that healthy herds may one - day re-populate vast tracts of tundra and boreal forest in Eurasia and North America.

Public lands are considered one of America's best defenses against rising greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots.

Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days crawling around on a piece of nice wet moss in a forest, or meandering through our vast oceans.

The actioner «tells the story of a shy, nervous 13 - year - old boy who, like his forefathers, takes a test of manhood by spending one day and night alone in the wilderness of a vast local forest.»

Opening on the vast greenery outbacks of New Zealand, Waititi takes us into the thick trees and forest wildlife to meet Ricky Baker (Dennison), a big city kid who has been in and out of foster care and «juvey» for a few years as the social services try desperately to rehome him before his reckless behaviour gets him into more serious trouble.

Play time — and rest assured, there's plenty of that — is split once again between the deserts, forests and caves that supply not only hunt targets but also a vast assortment of raw materials (of course, one generally equals the other), and a hub village where you temper the weapons, shape the armour and concoct the many, many items that (might) enable you to come off best in an encounter with a crocodile made of magma.

Like his forefathers, his time has come to take a test of manhood by spending one day and one night alone in the wilderness of a vast local forest.

Explore vast forests and scale tall mountains in this rugged, weather - beaten part of Hyboria.

In the distant future, all forest and plant life on Earth has become extinct, and the last surviving forests are housed in vast biodomes aboard cargo ships orbiting SaturIn the distant future, all forest and plant life on Earth has become extinct, and the last surviving forests are housed in vast biodomes aboard cargo ships orbiting Saturin vast biodomes aboard cargo ships orbiting Saturn.

When a German engineer gets off the plane in Los Angeles for the first time, he expects to be greeted by a vast forest of churning windmills powering the electric grid, plus an array of solar batteries on the roof of every Starbucks.

Africa is a wonderfully vast and varied continent, from the majestic sand dunes of the desert in Namibia, through the dark, dense rain forests of eastern Congo, to the sun - bleached, palm - fringed coast of Kenya.

One bullet to the brain later, Ben is in the Other World, where he discovers a vast and curiously secular existence utterly unlike anything he could have imagined: a realm of sprawling cities where the deceased of every age live an eternal second life, and where forests of family trees are tended by mysterious humans who never lived in the previous world.

The Golden State in home to inspiring natural attractions, from lush green forests to vast orange desserts.

Nestling in Europe's northeast corner is Lithuania, a country filled with baroque architecture, vast lakes and lush forests.