Sentences with phrase «other wooded lands»

Estimates made for Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2015) show that the world's forests and other wooded lands store more than 485 gigatonnes (1 Gt = 1 billion tonnes) of carbon, 260 Gt in the biomass (53 percent), 37 Gt in dead wood and litter (8 percent) and 189 Gt in soil (39 percent).

Not exact matches

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

The other new development is a long - sought deal, finalized this winter, to keep a visible, wooded parcel of land known as «The 38 Acres» as open space.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

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.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

Other examples of the Neo-Dadaist-style «junk art» include Hudson River Landscape (1951, Whitney Museum of American Art) and Australia (1951, MoMA, NY), both by David Smith (1906 - 1965); Untitled (wood, metal pieces, nails)(1960, Museum of Modern Art NYC) by Jesus Rafael Soto (b. 1923); and certain «combines» by Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), such as First Landing Jump (made from: painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board)(1961, MoMA, NY).

Like all wood - lands, it also sequesters carbon and other harmful pollutants, and collects and purifies water that filters into the ground to recharge the local aquifer, a community's prime source of drinking water.

The wooded land not only is important as a critical habitat for birds and other wildlife but sequesters carbon that contributes to global climate change.

The turtles aren't quite out of the woods yet (that's a strange image...), because even if they are in areas protected from development, they can still be vulnerable to other threats such as stray logs from nearby forestry operations that drift and clutter beaches, blocking the way for turtles and keeping them from landing, or from going back to sea.

WHEREAS in every lawn and bed the plucky crocus lifts his head, and to and fro sweet song - birds go, the names of which we do not know: Whereas the woods no more are dumb, the Boat Race and the Budget come, the Briton swells his manly chest, his mate, as eager, scrubs the nest, and Spring, with light but lavish hand, is spreading madness o'er the land: It is expedient — but in rhyme — to legislate for such a time: Be it enacted, therefore, by our King with Lords and Commons in a fairy ring assembled joyously at Westminister (or any other place that they prefer):

The Peoples of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands hold exclusive native title rights over most of the claimed area - approximately 187,000 sq km in Western Australia, stretching from the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve to the South Australian border.47 The Peoples of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands also hold non-exclusive rights over an unvested reserve in the claim area including rights to: enter and remain on reserved land; take flora and fauna; take water for personal, domestic or non-commercial communal purposes; take other natural resources such as ochre, stones, soils, wood and resin; and care for and protect sites of significance.

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But when they land on a surface with the right conditions — dampness and a suitable food source, such as wood or other organic material — a problem will soon occur.

When mould spores land on a surface with the right conditions — dampness and a suitable food source, such as wood or other organic material — a problem will soon occur.