Sentences with phrase «more land mines»

There are more land mines in Afghanistan than there are people, so Massoud Hassani turned a childhood toy into an extraordinary wind - powered bamboo mine sweeper that destroys and tracks them.

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Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

Referring to the land mass as one of riches may become more literal than figurative with the abolishment of the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), that will now be vulnerable to legal destruction for the purpose of mining the many resources in its reserves.

It's also giving the fossil fuels sector whiplash from a White House whose energy policies have otherwise been very good to them, from starting to undo greenhouse gas regulations to opening more public land to mining and drilling and tax cuts.

The in situ method is more costly than the mining method, but it is much less damaging to the environment, requiring only a few hundred meters of land and a nearby water source to operate.

If you can avoid stepping on financial land mines, you will be able to reach financial independence more easily.

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 23rd March 2018 Amid a range of land contamination issues in South Africa, mining houses are increasingly adapting their operations to be more holistic to curb environmental risks and create meaningful value for local stakeholders while achieving their objectives.

Already more than 16,000 lakes and rivers within Canada have had their protected status removed in order to facilitate oil exploration and resource mining on First Nations land.

Today, Land cruisers can be driven down the mine and back to surface instead of using the cage that used to carry miners to work underground — Now Northerners are NO MORE NEEDED AT ALL because they are not Proper Akans — no matter their academic qualifications.

More than two dozen landing strips were grandfathered into the legislation creating the wilderness, along with numerous private lands belonging to individuals, outfitters, ranchers, and mining companies.

«These significant alterations are likely to lead to saltier and more perennial streamflows throughout Appalachia, where at least 7 percent of the land has already been disturbed by mountaintop - removal mining,» says Nippgen, who notes that mountaintop removal is not part of Wyoming's coal industry.

(Forgotten People says there are even more mines on Navajo land: about 1,300.)

Because the uranium at this mine is on the surface of the land, people and animals are more likely to come in contact with it, he added.

All this consumption requires a host of natural resources, from vast copper mines scarring the landscape to ever more land for food.

The Times of India speculates that more than 40 million tons landed on the coast, but Victor Loveson, a geologist for the Central Mining Research Institute, says it's too early to make an accurate estimate.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

«There hasn't been a large - scale assessment of just the simple full topographic impact of mountaintop mining, which occupies more than 10 percent of the land in the region we studied,» said Matthew Ross, an ecology PhD student and lead author on the study.

Aware of those potential land mines, advocates for more evidence - based policymaking plan to move ahead gradually.

The directive is part of a broader push to open up more federal lands to drilling, mining and other development

Educational sites are more than just places for learning to read and count; they can also serve as refuges from the psychological impact of living in a war zone and as centers to furnish health information and instruction in protective measures, such as ways to avoid land mines.

But at this rate, even if a land mine ban came into force tomorrow, it would still take more than 1000 years to clear what's left.

I fell down mine and landed on my belly and it's Read More

After crash landing on a planet that you were supposed to just survey for a planet - mining exploitation fleet, the robot ION and his sentient AI ship TR - 2 (who's actually ION's boss, more or less) have to figure out how to phone home and get that mining fleet to scrub the world clean of its resources, thus fulfilling their purpose.

Danish director Martin Zandvliet brilliantly explores a little - known episode in 1945 when more than 2,000 German POWs were forced to clear almost two million land mines that had been buried on the beaches of the west coast of Denmark in anticipation...

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

i think there will be a little more boards like these (if theyd do this many and add normal party as a mode too, it would add replayablity:P) mushroom park Cloudy Canyon cheep cheep waters Sandy Dunes Ghostly Grotto Penguin Glacier Dk's forest - path Digital Cybertrack Bowser's volcan castle Retro boards: Peach's Birthday cake Mystery Land Waluigi's Island Koopa's seaside Soiree Future Dream Faire square Pagoda Peak Shy guy's perplex Express Magma Mine

Among losses in human lives and material goods, and danger from billions of land mines in war regions all over the world, there is one more, hard, long term legacy of war: trauma — present on both individual and communal level, creating traumatized, dysfunctional societies which capacities to recover and progress are inevitable lessen, according to some authors even lost in genetic degeneration trauma could have on generations of human population long - term.

More than 100 000 students aged five to 12 have benefited from the project, which teaches them about the risk of land mines.

Opponents long argued that SITLA could make more money for the school trust fund it supports by selling the land, leading to assertions that allowing the parcel to be mined could violate the agency's fiduciary duty.

But at a public meeting Wednesday, the proposed road became yet another bone of contention between those who want to protect Grand County's scenic lands and those looking to see more drilling, mining and roads.

Plus, critics are convinced the Bureau of Land Management — the federal agency that oversees Bonneville — cares more about mining than it does about racing, so they're focusing their lobbying efforts on elected officials.

Yet, I had to pinch myself to remember that this land had been desert for more than 11,000 years and by the time I had wined, dined, spa'd and tee'd off with the local trendies it dawned on me that I had no choice; I had to go on a jeep tour with Desert Adventures to get a glimpse of this region's true nature - and while there to see Boot Hill, an old mining camp, where Bill Gates once held a party.

There are now more enemies and land mines which in turn makes the tank controls feel slightly more dated and more difficult to navigate the maps.

You can use a small shockwave to make someone nudging your door to lose control of their car, blast the back of a car with an electromagnetic pulse (much like the cops), drop land mines that also deliver a temporary debilitating blast, and more.

Paintball - Marine grenades and grunt mines splatter the environment with color and deadly shrapnel Wuv Woo - Scarab and Locust beam weapons shoot rainbows made of pure love and hearts Scoring: Pain Train - All player units train 50 % faster, final score decreases Bountiful Harvest - Supplies from supply buildings arrive 25 % faster, final score decreases Emperor - All player powers recharge in half the time, final score decreases Pestilence - All player units slowly lose health from the moment they're built, final score increases Total Annihiliation - Spartan special ability slams create an even more powerful explosion upon land, final score decreases Sickness - All player units have 50 % fewer hit points, final score increases Firestarter - Grunts and Marines explode on death inflicting damage on enemy units, final score decreases Things That Go Boom - Hero units unleash a nuclear explosion on death, final score decreases Sugar Cookies - All player units have 50 % more hitpoints, final score decreases After Party - Any time a Firebase is destroyed the player who owned it gets a tank and infantry unit, final score decreases Nightmare - No checkpoints or saves on any difficulty with Campaign only, final score increases Shadow - Player core infantry units start cloaked, final score decreases Our Halo Hub Read our Halo Wars 2 Review

Interested in «reclaiming» American land for large - scale art, Smithson presented more than fifty proposals to various strip - mining companies, but was stymied in these efforts.

Less strip mining, leaving better, more beautiful lands for our children.

The multiple rivers that carry torrential tropical / sub-tropic rains to the coast will be immediately affected in the river mouths and that will get worse and WILL fundamentally CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF 2,300 kilometres OF Coastline, m river systems and farming land and cities and towns and villages and MINING OPERATIONS like open cut coal mines etc inland before one gets to the great dividing range which BTW supports a population of approximately 1 million people and contributes possibly 25 % or more of QLD GDP and it's massive Exports to the world including FOOD SUPPLY.

A proposal by Trump's Bureau of Land Management stands to let Cloud Peak Energy, one of the largest coal companies in the United States, strip mine more than 2,000 acres at the company's Spring Creek mine.

Not only does this leasing portend more greenhouse gases, the prospect of more mining promises more air pollution, more water contamination, diminished wildlife, and more barren, unreclaimed land.

When I wrote the first edition of «The War Against the Greens» in 1994 I predicted that the violent «Wise Use» backlash against environmentalists created by public lands industries like mining and timber might someday be superceded by a more powerful force.

Unfortunately, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is getting ready to open more than 3,500 acres of land next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los AngeLand Management (BLM) is getting ready to open more than 3,500 acres of land next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los Angeland next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los Angeles.

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees coal leasing and mining in the region, has admitted the region is linked to more than thirteen percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.

More specifically, in the 19th and 20th century, expansion of agricultural land remained the main driver of deforestation, together with the expansion of cities and the development of infrastructure and mining.

But these communities and many, many more across North America — including those affected by tar sands refining, pipelines, and rail transportation, and people living at the source of tar sands extraction in Canada — are standing up and calling for an end to the pipelines, the rail terminals, and the tar sands mining that harms our health, our water, our land, and our climate.

Lawmakers with links to mining and agriculture interests amended two government bills to open up even more land for exploitation, in a move that environmentalists say jeopardises the country's climate change goals.

Last year on average more than two people were killed a week defending their land against environmentally destructive industries like mining, agribusiness, logging and hydropower.

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