Sentences with phrase «land clearance»

No, land clearance still going on, and any attempt to stop or even reduce it is being fought hard.

These rare bandicoots, and numerous other animals and plants, once thrived in the region, but have declined dramatically as a result of land clearance and the introduction of species such as cats, rabbits and foxes.

We are urgently seeking landing clearances and permissions from the Libyan Government and in support of this we will send a rapid deployment team of Foreign Office officials to assist British nationals.

The comparison of orangutan and habitat losses suggests that land clearance caused the most dramatic rates of decline.

[5][6] This changed when the government of Portugal encouraged land clearance so that grain could be grown.

I was appalled by the recent floods in the Cameron Highlands, which were driven by illegal land clearance [some coverage].

The only net adds are from tectonic activity, deforestation and other land clearance activities, and the rather humungous amounts of carbon currently being added to the short term carbon cycle through the massive burning of long - sequestered fossil fuel...

For those readers for whom the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline has been pushed from the forefront of their attention, direct action against preliminary construction and land clearance on the southern portion of the pipeline has been ongoing since August.

Arizona has already hired goats to clear brush, and a company in Carrboro, NC is offering goat - based, chemical free land clearance that they claim is the greenest option out there.

Research led by Dr. Susan Page University of Leicester found that producing one ton of palm oil on peatland generates 15 to 70 tons of CO2 over 25 years as a result of forest conversion, peat decomposition and emission from fires associated with land clearance.

«With the exception of land clearance, the research found that extremely intense fires are associated with anomalous weather — such as droughts, winds, or in desert regions, following particularly wet seasons.

Peru has come under fire as a country where some of the worst deforestation of the Amazon is taking place as a result oil drilling, gold mining, illegal logging and land clearance for farms.

The chimps» responses to two fires — set for land clearance — were seen in 2006.

The team's model showed that this land clearance has increased the length of droughts in the area by one to two weeks per year.

Studies in the 1980s showed that Chesapeake Bay was built thanks in part to high sedimentation rates caused by logging and land clearance.

Mr Radley said climate change - driven effects are already being seen in places such as East Timor and Indonesia, where dry spells and land clearances have fuelled significant habitat loss through human ignited wildfires.

A recent study suggested that land clearance and early agriculture by humans around that time could be the reason for the extra 40ppm in the atmosphere.

suggested that land clearance and early agriculture by humans around that time could be the reason for the extra 40ppm in the atmosphere.

Here's a mitigative strategy: since anti-RE zealots love to slag solar farms as allegedly «devastating» to local ecologies due to land clearance, let's put solar farms on lands already «so battered and bruised by pollution as to be useless» for most purposes:

There's a lot else we do to change things and this isn't easy to quantify: land clearance, overfishing, algal blooms (fertilisers being dumped), etc..

The rise follows years of progress in curbing illegal logging and land clearance.

As can melting polar ice and snow (+ ve), land clearance (+ ve for the extra GHG, - ve for exposed land), aerosols (+ ve for black carbon, - ve for sulphates, + ve or - ve for clouds).

«With the exception of land clearance, the research found that extremely intense fires are associated with anomalous weather — such as droughts, winds or, in desert regions, following particularly wet seasons.

A review of the issues reveals, however, that these assumptions about the availability of land, the role of biofuels in causing deforestation, and the ability to relate crop prices to areas of land clearance are unsound.

Land clearance for logging in the Solomon Islands will lead to unsustainable levels of soil erosion and significant impacts to downstream water quality.

Some analysts had already warned that recent falls in deforestation could be explained by a drop in market prices for products such as soya and meat and that once these rose again, land clearance would start to increase.

Nuclear reactors are dangerous and land clearance and chemical pesticides and fertilisers used to grow fuel crops can cause huge environmental damage, he added.