Sentences with phrase «land clearing while»

The study found that protecting natural forests avoids emissions that would otherwise result from logging and land clearing while also conserving biodiversity.

Not exact matches

While a clear answer in either direction is better than maybe, it'd be much better to land more yesses in your corner.

While it's not immediately clear that that would be a major upgrade, Jose Mourinho could do well to cash in on Mata and reinvest that elsewhere in his squad whilst landing Ozil on a free as he heads towards being a free agent this summer as well.

While USC, Virginia Tech and Michigan are the finalists, the Wolverines look to be the clear favorites to land the 6 - foot - 4, 240 - pounder.

Many thought the ousting would also clear a path for assistant offensive line coach and former Cowboys» lineman Marc Colombo to land a promotion and while that's not out of the window, the team is all - in on investigating all of their options before they make a decision.

In fact, these reports confirm what has been clear for some time now: sensible regulations can ensure safe natural gas development will protect land, water and public health while providing tens of thousands of good jobs throughout the Marcellus Shale.

While the study provides clear evidence that aerosol particles affect the development and intensity of storms, Thornton says it can not be directly generalised to the air above land because there are other factors that need to be taken into account.

«While he has steered clear of efforts to sell off public lands and supported the Land and Water Conservation Fund, far more often Rep. Zinke has advanced policies that favor special interests,» said Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society, in a statement.

I have to wait briefly while another of Land Rover's Scots clears a small iceberg from the floe, then it's down the steep, icy bank and into water that was made on a glacier.

While it may not be immediately clear, industrialized farming and monoculture directly affect deforestation in Kenya as large tracts of land are razed to make room for farms.

A while ago, I ended up with $ 1000 transferred into my account, which in the description looked like a netbank transfer, not like a cheque, cash deposit etc, and which looked like it had already cleared and landed in my account.

While this document isn't any kind of guarantee, a preapproval letter gives you a clear sense of what you can afford and what it will likely take to land a VA home loan.

While the language of this new law is being criticised by both supporters and opposers for not being clear as to what constitutes as cruelty, it still seems to be making a positive change in the Land of Smiles.

Situated on close to two acres of land, lush gardens and soaring palms wrap the villa in tranquility while crystal clear, sandy bottomed dotted waters with luminescent corals await...

Visitors can swim across a pool to enter the ATM Cave where ancient Maya priests once performed human sacrifices, explore the ruins of Cahal Pech, once home to an elite royal Maya family more than a thousand years ago, rappel more than 300 feet down the infamous «Back Hole Drop», ride an inner tube down the Caves Branch river while passing through the remnants of the Maya underworld, zip line through the jungle canopy, enjoy some of the best fishing anywhere in the world, snorkel in crystal clear water, and enjoy bird watching in a land that more than 500 species of birds call home.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

While getting deeper into the land, however, it's clear how the Isle of Seirens isn't just an island inhabited by monsters but has a rather intriguing history centered around an incredibly advanced civilization.

I've been seeing some people asking for the North American version to land in other parts of the world — while that is something to ask a distributor, Namco has made it pretty clear that this is intended for use in North America only.

So while it's clearly a notch below Sony's UBP - X800 and the Oppo UDP - 203, it's still a darn sight better than standard Blu - ray, and will give you a sharper, clearer picture whether you're watching Ryan Gosling lark about in La La Land or a penguin doing the same in Planet Earth II.

While there are other connotations, not least those of surveillance and searchlights given the title, the clearest reference is to lighthouses on the border between land and wild, rocky sea.

It seems clear to me that the ocean surface warming is being suppressed by its large heat capacity, while the land has very little heat capacity and is not being suppressed (rather than amplified).

I remember the issue of deciding how many principle components to use in my thesis work involving automated land use classification based on remote sensing, and it is clear that using too many PCs will begin to NOT explain the variability, while using the RIGHT number gets us the best answer.

However, it notices that, while progress has been made in measuring the site - specific and activity - specific GHG emissions associated with an array of land clearing and agricultural activities, there are important gaps in knowledge that need to be filled before informed policy action can proceed.

Under Brazil's Forest Code, for example, landowners in the Amazon can only deforest 20 % of their land, while those in the Cerrado can only clear 35 % for agriculture.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

Queensland is destroying tree cover at the rate of 10 square kilometres a day, harming biodiversity while stoking doubts about federal data suggesting emissions from land clearing are in decline.

«It's just inexplicable that while Queensland deforestation and land clearing is spiking dramatically, the federal government is somehow recording a big drop in deforestation emissions,» Mr Walker said.

Yes, I have been to nsidc.org a fair amount, particularly this page to try to understand each Northern Hemisphere summer what is going on with greenland ice melt: http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/ While I do like that page, I must say I have not been able to find what I am looking for there, as far as clear non-scientist-oriented data that shows land ice changes over the years, whether for the Antarctic, Greenland or other places.

While the use of fire for land - clearing is illegal, the practice in nonetheless widespread, with satellites picking up hundreds of hotspots in a daily basis during the dry season, which typically runs through October.

An expert on climate impacts on agriculture and land - use, Müller found while scoping the report for GDI that there was a mistaken assumption by development experts that many of the current uncertainties in predicting climate change will soon clear up.

Coal, railroads, and land clearing speed up greenhouse gas emission, while better agriculture and sanitation speed up population growth.

While difficult to say in the abstract, what is clear is that asking Aboriginal title holders to bear a disproportionate adverse impact on their land for the benefit of the greater Canadian public will not meet this test.

While at this point there is not yet a crystal clear general legal requirement in Canadian law to consult with Indigenous peoples on the negotiation and ratification of international treaties, a number of «modern'treaties, called comprehensive land claims settlements, include explicit obligations on Canada to consult with the Indigenous party in advance of new international treaties that might affect rights under these agreements.

While it is important to continue this important work on land degraded by mining, as climate change priorities develop rehabilitation of country degraded by other activities such as agriculture, pastoral, land clearing, waste dumps, access development including roads and water, and tourism will become equally important.

While previous reports have made it clear that the NTA needs to provide a just and equitable framework for returning land to Indigenous people, we also need to explore other opportunities to expand the economic and social development outcomes for Indigenous people produced by the native title system.