Sentences with phrase «other land areas»

Precipitation increased over most other land areas, showing that, generally, rainfall decreased over dry areas but increased over wetter areas.

Not exact matches

«We have consistently called on China, as well as other claimants, to refrain from further land reclamation, construction of new facilities, and militarization of disputed features, and to commit to managing and resolving disputes peacefully with other claimants,» a Pentagon official told CNBC when asked about China's recent military activity in the area.

Yet in many areas, especially cities, these residences on wheels may not be economical to own, because of zoning regulations, high land costs and other drawbacks.

This was one of the most respected companies in the area, and his partnership gave us huge credibility, helping to land other prestigious clients.

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.

But the U.K.'s total land area is about 94,000 square miles whereas the U.S. has a land mass of 3.8 million square miles — in other words, more than 40 times larger.

I ended up purchasing a small piece of land (with mostly other people's money) in a great area.

Nearly two dozen wildfires spread through the counties of Napa, Sonoma, and six others last week, destroying an estimated 5,700 structures, and burning over 200,000 acres of land — a collective area roughly the size of New York City.

While you'll have to meet income and credit eligibility criteria, the good news is that almost all of Oregon land is eligible for USDA programs except select areas near Portland, Salem and other cities.

To create and preserve affordable housing, the report explores ways to use city - owned land and other resources strategically to promote affordable housing in areas where costs are on the rise.

But it is part of the equation in Harrisburg, as both cities — and possibly other areas in the state — vie for Wolf's blessing as they attempt to land the coveted prize.

However examinations of putting the land animals in the known area is certainly feasible and backed up by other creation accounts — this was the known world at the time and the meaning of the text.

One begins with a restricted generalization descriptive of phenomena encountered in one field of inquiry (e.g., physics, physiology, psychology, etc.); one then (as he says) «makes a flight into the thin air of generalization» — framing the description to cover all actualities — finally landing again to see how the theory squares with observed fact in areas other than the one from which the inquiry began.

The area became a land of refuge and settlement for certain sects which in other lands could not resist absorption in the conformist mass around them.

He had dealt with various areas such as agriculture, old soldiers, public health, war treaties, capitalism, capital punishment, coinage, communism, land, old age pensions, divorce, artificial insemination, slaughter houses, reformation of criminals, tramps money, over population and others.

Other significant cotton farming interests up for sale include Eastern Australia Agriculture's portfolio which comprises the properties Kia Ora and Clyde south of St George totalling 37,590 hectares made up of 12,800 hectares of irrigation land with further areas of development potential.

The increased yields obtained through IRRI technologies can help rice farmers to free up land area to raise other nutritious crops and animals.

All 3 things can be found at Walmart and the Land O'Lakes whipped cream is hard to find in other places, but always at walmart in my area.

And if you want go one better at using Ozil have a solid DM and an organised defence behind him to make up for his inability in other areas... (In flying - pig land)..

If Leopold and other scientists are correct, if the land is indeed one organism and there is a total and critical interdependence among all living things, then the deliberate poisoning of vast areas of the U.S. will have been a long stride toward the end of life as it is known on the North American continent.

In February of 2008, Fox Valley Park District residents approved a $ 44.8 million referendum to fund improvements for local parks, trails and public facilities, acquire new land for additional recreation space, preserve Fox River shoreline areas and create additional venues for athletic fields, and numerous other goals.

If the developer pays the taxes within six months, the village's mayor said the village may acquire other land in the same area for the same purpose: recreation.

Developers would install trails, boardwalks, a parking area and other improvements before turning the land over to the Park District.

The board's decision means the skate park will be located in one of the city's 13 community parks or on other available park land, such as the area around Lake Osborne, located across from the police station on Aurora Avenue.

Construction of a skate park area and sewer upgrades, among other improvements, at Gordon Park in La Grange will move forward after the village's Plan Commission gave a green light to the project after weeks of discussion between the park district and village officials over a land ownership dispute.

Roger Kotecki, vice chairman of the Forest Preserve District's Land Acquisition Committee, said the 4.9 - acre acquisition — along with the other land operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva RoLand Acquisition Committee, said the 4.9 - acre acquisition — along with the other land operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva Roland operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva Roads.

The DEC's recently released unit management plan for much of the state land around the Tri-Lakes calls for sweeping changes to some popular camping areas, and for opening new campsites to offset the closure of others.

Landing suddenly in Number Ten with no ministerial experience of economic, trading and industrial issues in relation to the EU, she assumed she could take the same approach with Brexit: full alignment in some areas, managed divergence in others, and a complete break in some sectors.

President Mahama, also mentioned other projects to be constructed in the coastal areas alongside the landing beaches.

He added that, upon receipt of the good news on the university campus, citizens from the District and other investors had taken the opportunity and have acquired several acres of Land in the area close to the University campus site in readiness to construct Hostel facilities and other ventures to help the school function as expected.

He argued that, splitting the Northern Region could help resolve the chieftaincy, land and other related conflicts recorded in the area.

They squeezed out all the competition from local area due to owning all the land or offering cheap services at cost so there are no other employers in the area.

Nevertheless, because I support the Land Bank, I would have endeavored to avoid cuts to the program and, instead, identified other areas for budget cuts.

Other places have both The study shows a map with a splash of red from south to north in the nation's center, depicting an area that's sensitive to both intensifying land use and climatic changes.

Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much less input in terms of fertilizer or chemicals.

These variations arise when persistent high - pressure areas exert pressure on the landmasses below them, or on the other hand when low - pressure areas relieve pressure on the land.

One area in which algae perform better, environmentally, than other feedstocks is land use, Clarens said.

What makes this site important for other cities attempting to shrink their carbon footprint is that the dock area is land that was previously used by industry.

«This study is one of the first to quantitatively examine the loss of forested areas and other land cover changes in savanna environments,» said Richard Yuretich, program director for the National Science Foundation's Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program, which funded the research.

To date, the government has ordered some 1.2 million people in two cities and 116 towns clustered on the banks of the Yangtze to be evacuated to other areas before construction, promising them plots of land and small stipends — in some cases as little as 50 yuan, or $ 7 a month — as compensation.

Canal construction, oil and gas extraction from the Gulf Coast, climate change and the routing of the Mississippi River and its land - building floods away from other delta areas have made the loss of land inevitable.

Students work on robotic land and air vehicle design, human - machine interfaces, vision systems, speech, wireless communication, interactive multimedia art, and many other areas.

The locations of weather stations, changes in instruments, the siting of weather stations in warmer urban areas, changes in land cover and other issues have all been cited as issues affecting the temperature trends often used to show that our planet is in fact warming.

The Central Valley's protected wetlands (federal wildlife refuges, state wildlife areas, and private lands) and certain types of agriculture (e.g. rice, alfalfa), provide nearly all of the habitat used by millions of ducks, geese, shorebirds, and other waterbirds every fall, winter, and spring.

Other data included the cost of acquiring tracts of land, and the location of protected areas.

Biofuels use more land area, generate more greenhouse gas emissions, and have a greater impact on the environment than other alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, solar thermal energy, or wind power.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

In order to account for the characteristic features of cascading use, wood researcher Michael Risse applied the holistic life cycle approach and analyzed the exergy of all materials used, the internal recycling processes, and the consumption of other primary resources, such as the forest land areas required.

«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.

Other explanations, such as a more virulent strain or changes in land use, agriculture, or animal health systems, seemed implausible, they said, and the disease had struck primarily in those areas that had heated up the most.