Sentences with phrase «over dead trees»

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The practical side of me says, «well at least a tree won't be cut down to make a box to bury him in and it's one less spot that can't be used for farmland because you can't plow over dead bodies (euw) and for those truly «green» at heart, this is ultimate recycling».

Into our second week of torrential rain, with over 100 % humidity, the streets had turned to rivers and cicadas were dropping from the trees into my backyard like dead flies.

«If we go across the forest, you can see dead trees all over the place,» Skirko says.

This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California's drought stricken forests.

«We were stepping over all these dead trees on the ground that had been killed by the initial blast,» Mousseau said.

In forests, periodic insect epidemics kill trees over large regions, providing dead, desiccated fuels for large wildfires.

Personally, while I can dead lift over 200 pounds, do a pull - up or climb a tree, my «abs» are masked by a little loose skin from my four pregnancies and a scar from my c - section and I'm ok with that...

And since we have an Amazon Prime Account (worth it's weight in gold), I never have to pay for shipping (and I mean awesome free, two day shipping, none of this super saver wait for 2 weeks after you've spent over $ 25 and MAYBE get it then crap), making it ALWAYS cheaper to order my dead tree books from them.

But as ebook readers become more sophisticated, it's not unimaginable that more authors will prefer their versatility over a stack of dead trees.

(That's certainly an advance over dead - tree book lending — printed books that friends borrow have a nasty habit of never returning home.)

Every author, unless locked into a long - term contract with a dead - tree publisher, has the bargaining power to negotiate over pricing.

And I have a dead tree library with over 3,000 volumes none of which I've cracked in a couple of years now.

Digital comics Pundit Rob Salkowitz, author of Comic - Con and the Business of Pop Culture, tracks the rise of digital - first comics over the past year and discusses what sets them apart from their dead - tree counterparts.

No more (or much less) money spent on buying expensive dead - tree formats which wear out over time; instead we would have ebooks which could be distributed to students» tablets and thus save us money.

So I have to say that, although I think it's highly likely that ebooks will replace dead tree books over the next few years and reduce them to the status that vinyl records currently enjoy in the world (curios for a minority of buyers, sold by specialist shops), I do also see that paperbacks still have a place in the world, and that for a while longer people will still want them.

Climb this fabulously named colossus for gobsmacking views over the fossil trees of Dead Vlei, or watch the sun rise from the smaller but equally beautiful Dune 45.

Dead Stars», Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2017); «Inside rooms drift in and out of sleep / While on the roof / An alphabet of aerials / Search for a language», Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2015); «Martin Boyce: When Now is Night», RISD Museum, Providence (2015); Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2015); «All Over / Again / and Again», The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow (2013); «Out of This Sun, Into This Shadow», Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008); «Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations», FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (2007); «For 1959 Capital Avenue», Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2002); and «Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours», Tramway, Glasgow (2002).

A survey completed by state and federal forest officials shows dead spruce trees over nearly 450,000 acres of the region, 30 times more than 2014, and extending 200 miles north of previous outbreaks.

Researchers studying tree - ring data from living trees and dead trunks preserved in lakes in Finnish Lapland found a much longer - term cooling trend over the past 2,000 years than previously understood.

Hello all, well this all is getting very dire, My vegetable garden is rotting in the ground, to much rain and scoring heat,, I noticed most of my trees on my 5 acre farm are browning at the top and the leaves are thinning on all of them and around 10 of them are completely dead... We live here in the carpet capital of the world and seems to me that most don't see or don't care about the sky or the trees or the air they breathe... Just this week We had to completely drain our grand kids pool and start over, with all this rain it turned green and no amount of algae killer would clear it up, The PH was insanely high...... It's the small things in life that make what's left of life on this planet........

Ironically, it is these burning fir trees that pose the only real fire threat to their sequoia symbionts, the burning trunk of a fir leaning up against the sequoia can lead to exactly the type of fire hollowing damage that we observe and that ultimately makes it possible for a dead sequoia to fall over at all, otherwise they might remain standing dead for a thousand years [not much good even for the squirrels].

Some dead plant tissue for example, ultimately become petrified; buried tree cells dissolve in solution and are replaced by silica minerals that precipitate from subterranean water over time.

Corrupt, decrepit regimes were falling over like dead trees in a windstorm, but in many cases, there was nothing — no replacement regime, no legitimate constitution, no rule of law — to step into the breach.