Sentences with phrase «largest land expansion»
The pack, titled Far Harbor, is an ambitious one, offering the largest land expansion that a Bethesda game has seen yet as well as a brand new storyline and a host of side missions, the entire island of Maine for your exploration, and a whole host of new collectibles, weapons, and creatures.
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Meanwhile, the company has been quietly shopping around a large parcel of land near its Silicon Valley headquarters that was once its designated landing zone for corporate expansion, signaling that those plans have likely been put on hold indefinitely.
The speech lists five key fundamentals that should stand Australia in good stead: a strong institutional framework (including the rule of law, respect for property rights, a well - functioning public administration, and a well - established regulatory system); our people, who are diverse, well educated, have a «can do» mentality and a demonstrated capability for adjusting to change; a large endowment of mineral resources; large tracts of agricultural land and an ability to produce high - quality clean food; and an established services industry with the potential for considerable expansion as average incomes in Asia rise.
The Western expansion and frontier mentality finds its expression in the constable where large caravans of families would move together to find a new home in new land.
BOSTON — The moon has long loomed large as the next logical site for human expansion, a frontier land still lightly explored but visible to all throughout human history.
The losses at each stage are large, and as humans globally eat more and more meat, conversion from plants to food becomes less and less efficient, driving agricultural expansion and land cover conversion, and releasing more greenhouse gases.
Land Rover is mulling the expansion of the Defender nameplate in the coming years to cater to a larger audience.
The Horizons content expansion will add new stuff for players to experience over the course of the coming year, and the Planetary Landings beta is only the first piece of content within a larger season of content updates.
Six years later, 7 East 70th Street was acquired, and 5 East 70th Street was purchased in 1972, finally completing a parcel of land adjacent to the existing museum that was large enough to accommodate an expansion.
However, given the potential future expansion of oil palm plantations and other land developments onto selectively logged lands, the fate of much of Southeast Asia's biodiversity may ultimately hinge on whether the conservation community can overcome the opportunity cost of oil palm or can encourage the implementation of large - scale landscape planning in order to reliably protect areas critical for biodiversity.
«All the studies of land use change indicate that the emissions related to biofuels expansion are significant and can be quite large.»
Historically, opponents of fossil fuels have been successful in preventing large expansions of the federal land available to oil and gas development.
Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.
But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.
We show that over the last decade, the trade of forest - risk commodities was large and accelerating in the Mekong region, concurrent with the rapid expansion of large - scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), constituting important, inter-related causal pathways for the displacement of deforestation and forest degradation.
Large scale expansion of cellulosic crops for BECS may put pressure on food security (Msangi et al. 2007), forest conservation (Danielsen et al. 2009), and other uses of productive land.
Secwepemc Territory, Kamloops, The Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade (INET) pioneered an Indigenous risk assessment of Kinder Morgan Canada's Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP), demonstrating that failure to take into account Indigenous jurisdiction, title and land rights constitutes too great a risk for large projects seeking access to Indigenous lands and resources.
First, both natural geographic barriers and an emergent environmental movement to preserve open land caused Coastal California's large metro areas to slow their outward expansion, or sprawl.