Sentences with phrase «like grasslands»

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Indeed, language may be THE most important ingredient in why and how we changed from just another band of hominids on the African grasslands to a truly global species that has dominated the environment, for good and ill, like no other species in history.

Buhari said that with the current challenge, the country must harness its natural resources like agriculture and solid minerals to survive, being a country blessed with arable land, endless swathes of grasslands and forest.

A turkey - like bird with a vulture's head, the vulturine guineafowl makes its home in the dry grasslands of northeast Africa.

Things like no fire or differences in climate change may allow woody plant species to competitively take over grasslands.»

Like his father and grandfather, Trampe, 68, harvests alfalfa on what is now 6,000 acres of picturesque rolling hay crops and grassland 30 minutes outside the town of Crested Butte.

Wind developers that cooperate with the guidelines will avoid dividing important habitats like forests and grasslands, thus maintaining their suitability for wildlife.

Ledi - Geraru hosted a different fauna just 200,000 years later, with grazers such as gazelles, zebras, wild pigs, and a baboon at home in open grasslands like the Serengeti.

In grasslands like this, she says, «It's the primary way people make a livelihood while keeping habitat.»

«It's like going to the Midwest and taking grasslands and making it into soy.

Like Coke versus Pepsi, tropical land ecosystems come in two choices: forest or grassland.

Allan Savory's project, titled «Operation Hope,» is an ongoing effort to reverse the desertification that is spreading across the world's savannas and grasslands like a disease.

«Our results predict that climate change could greatly impact the tallgrass prairie as we currently know it, reducing forage for cattle in the drier parts of grasslands, in places like Kansas,» Johnson said.

Global warming won't just melt ice caps; it could create whole new biomes — major ecosystem types like forest, desert, grassland, and tundra — say climatologists led by John Williams at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

«Based on our results it looks increasingly like sites which were predominantly heathland but are now a combination of heathland, grassland and woodland probably provide a better landscape for pollinators than a landscape with just one habitat type,» she explains.

Semi dry grasslands like this one are nutrient poor and home to a high diversity of many plants, animals and microrganisms.

Woolly Mammoths, like elephants in Africa today, were the engineers of grasslands, keeping trees from growing onto the plains and dispersing large amounts of nutrients over immense distances via their dung.

In fact, according to the study, biofuel crops like corn and soy expanded onto seven million new acres between 2008 and 2012, much of that environmentally precious grassland.

Pine trees laugh in the face of cold, trees in grasslands have very thick bark to resist fires, some plants in the tundra have dish - like flowers that chase the sun to collect as much warmth as they can, and then some plants only bloom once a year, as if to remind us of just how fleeting beauty can be.

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I also like the fact that the adventure takes place not in Mushroom Kingdom, I haven't seen enough to say there are brand - new areas instead / apart from the usual desert, grasslands, etc. but I really hope there are, because seeing the same types of areas in every mario game starts getting old.

The shimmering towers, bustling streets and sprawling grasslands of Wakanda, the fictional east African country presided over by our hero King T'Challa (a suitably regal Chadwick Boseman), look almost nothing like Star Wars or Blade Runner — and in the current Hollywood sci - fi canon, that makes its sights virtually unique.

There's something to be said about a fast German coupe roaming through empty hills at speeds considered nearly impudent; the Audi S5 hustled — glided, really — along undulating Hill Country roads, across curves drawn like ribbons and fresh asphalt unsullied by traffic; past ranches and grassland and precious little society in between.

Clang clang... A crisp, ear - splitting clang, like a hammer on an anvil, tore through the silent air of the grassland and straight into the ears and the seats of courage of every wolf in the pack, like a sword.

In Haruf's hands, the flat and seemingly unexceptional lives of his characters are, like the furrowed grasslands in which they live, transformed into something wondrous.

We all know that our dogs like to sniff in brushy grasslands and stalk woodpiles — and those areas are perfect for a skunk family to hide away from predators.

The Acana Regionals line is made from start to finish in their Kentucky DogStar ® kitchens and features flavors like Meadowland (free - range poultry, freshwater fish, nest - laid eggs), Wild Atlantic (wild New England fish, fresh Kentucky greens), Grasslands (grass - fed Kentucky lamb, freshwater trout, game bird), and Appalachian Ranch (ranch - raised red meats, freshwater catfish).

I hope your baby likes Acana Grasslands.

From Bloemfontein to Clarens the Free State lies in the middle of South Africa, its flat grasslands and sandstone mountains an easy play ground for Gautengers, who escape to places like Rosendal, Fouriesburg, Ficksburg and Parys with increasing regularity.

Known formally as the Southern KwaZulu Natal Birding Route its list reads like a who's who of the endangered and rare bird sightings, boasting all three of the country's crane species as well as the chance of sighting a crowned eagle in the oNgoye Forest, the globally threatened blue swallow, and the endangered Cape parrot in the Creighton Valley's mist belt forests and grasslands.

The sight of edelweiss - like flowers dotting the grasslands reminded me of The Sound of Music as I climbed to Crater Rim I (2,641 m) from the Senaru Trek Centre (601m) on Day 1.

If anything, I would have loved to see some unique visual themes that games like Zelda hadn't explored nearly as often; grasslands, snowy mountains, and fiery caverns are by - the - book tropes at this point.

I also like the fact that the adventure takes place not in Mushroom Kingdom, I haven't seen enough to say there are brand - new areas instead / apart from the usual desert, grasslands, etc. but I really hope there are, because seeing the same types of areas in every mario game starts getting old.

Terrain shaping allows you to create things like mountains, grasslands, castles, or just about anything you want.

Color Field and Solid Grey (2013), which was recently installed at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Westchester, New York, is a Technicolor quilt of quill - like spikes of beads, a nod to the grasslands of KwaZulu - Natal and a wilder version of Back Yard (1996 — 99), for which Lou conscripted volunteers to help her construct 250,000 green - glass - beaded blades of grass.

Mankind is very adept at creating grasslands, which are great albedo-wise and sequester carbon like mad.

In places with extensive grasslands, like in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia, people gravitated toward grazing livestock.

In a grassland the net vegetative uptake that stays in the plant is nearly zero like forests, but the difference doesn't necessarily return to the atmosphere, a significant % can be sequestered in the soil.

The region is known for the llanos, an area of tropical savanna that could be described as a cross between two ecosystems in South America: the flooded grasslands of Pantanal and the prairie - like Cerrado.

The researchers used a climate - vegetation model that showed (like several similar studies) a clear increase in Amazonian drought following a global average temperature rise — leading to a large - scale die - back of rainforest, switching to grassland and savanna climate suitability.

The letter goes on to cite research showing that conventional biofuels derived from feedstocks like rapeseed, corn, and palm oil can «directly or indirectly result in substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of forests and grasslands to croplands or pasture to accommodate biofuel production.»

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.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

And when the birds fly by they don't see a flat, ugly tarmac broiling in the sun, they see a rolling, flowering grassland that looks like home.

For example, in the Arctic, where about 500 gigatons of carbon is stored in permafrost, large grazing mammals like caribou and muskoxen can help maintain the grasslands that have a high albedo and thus reflect more solar energy.

Much of these grasslands aren't well - suited for biofuel crops, and are prone to problems like drought and soil eroision.

«High diversity grasslands produced 238 percent more biofuels than monocultures,» Tilman said, adding that highly diverse system also sequester carbon from the atmosphere and require fewer agricultural inputs (water, fertilizer, and pesticides) than low diversity systems like monocultures.