Sentences with phrase «massive landslide»

Another key critic of SFI is Sierra Club, which in 2009 filed a complaint against SFI - certified timber company Weyerhaeuser for conducting irresponsible logging on extremely steep and unstable slopes — actions that resulted in massive landslides and extensive damage to public and private property.

Colonisation routes, habitat shifts, disruption of populations by volcanism, dispersal by massive landslides, and other relevant aspects for adaptive and non-adaptive radiation, are largely discussed and confronted with previously published data referring to other groups of beetles or to other biological organisms (spiders, bush crickets, plants, etc.).

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, fossil fuels are lethal for environmental ecosystems (in addition to causing massive landslides, oil spills, underground tar leaks, and all of that good stuff) and produce extremely lethal toxic air emissions, including methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide.

Parts of the earth that are now rarely affected by tsunamis, such as northern coastal regions, could be hit by «glacial earthquakes,» in which glacier ice crashes to earth in massive landslides.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Three of the four out LGBT members of the State Assembly faced challengers in this week's Democratic primary, but all prevailed easily, two of them by massive landslides.

Sometimes Trump distorts the truth, for example, describing his electoral college win as «a massive landslide victory».

In June and August, massive landslides in southwestern Sichuan province killed more than 30 and left scores missing.

He said: «Oh well I think you know who I'm referring to, I don't want to rerun all of the arguments over the last two years, but all of those people that sought, since Jeremy Corbyn was elected by a massive landslide two years ago, to knife him in the back almost every single day, they're the traitors.»

The survey for STV suggests if there were an election tomorrow, the SNP would register a massive landslide, winning 54 of the 59 Scottish seats up for grabs.

It's an obvious no brainer, firstly, declare that we will remove the Barnett Formula, then, enjoy the massive support of those in 51m people in the English Constituencies, and follow that up with a massive landslide win in the General Election.

On the seafloor here, the bottom dropped out about 8,200 years ago in a massive landslide.

The team from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) have been tracking the devastating events of last week when a massive landslide struck Xinmo Village, Maoxian County, Sichuan Province in China.

Hacker, who studies catastrophic geological events, said the slide originated when a volcanic field consisting of many strato - volcanoes, a type similar to Mount St. Helens in the Cascade Mountains, which erupted in 1980, collapsed and produced the massive landslide.

Two massive landslides that occurred at Utah's Bingham Canyon copper mine last 10 April moved about 65 million cubic meters of earth, enough to bury New York City's Central Park 20 meters deep.

It was back in 1934 that one of the more peculiar inland disasters of recent times struck the small Norwegian community of Tafjord, a massive landslide triggering a tsunami that raced along the neighboring fjord - the narrow walls of...

Last week, disaster struck Colombia in the form of a massive landslide that hit the Libordiana River.

Tim Heffernan at BoingBoing explains how a massive landslide at the world's largest open - pit copper mine in Utah is a reminder that «sometimes it's still the earth itself that shakes the world.»

Plight of people affected by the massive landslide in north east Nepal, close to border with China, highlights the country's vulnerability to natural disasters

Surrounded by mountains on one side and (what's left of) woods on the other, last Monday (Feb. 9) a massive landslide of water and mud caused by the overflow of Tartagal river came down from a hill and took a quarter of the town, pushing everything as it passed and ruining the houses of at least 1200 people.

A massive landslide of water and mud that took place last week in the town of Tartagal, northern Argentina, left at least 12 people missing and over 1000 evacuated.

A 4,000 - foot - high mountainside collapsed in Glacier Bay National Park in a massive landslide that spread debris for miles across the glacier below.