Sentences with phrase «over land clearing»

The lack of federal control over land clearing in those two states «makes a mockery» of the ERF, Janet Rice, the federal Greens environment spokeswoman, said.

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Some of the most successful social media advertising campaigns include custom landing pages, where the copy carries over from the ad and the action crystal clear.

Cheryshev broke clear down the left and found Enes Unal in the centre of the penalty area, and although Unal's shot was blocked by the onrushing Keylor Navas, it landed to Fornals to chip a first - time shot over the despairing goalkeeper.

The Albany County Land Bank will receive $ 2.8 million over two years, funding the demolition of up to 20 blighted structures, the rehabilitation of a dozen properties, the initial stabilization of up to 40 homes, and the clearing of the same number of vacant lots for repurposing.

Or fires set to clear land for agriculture can get out of hand, like they've done in Indonesia: Over the last few decades, the country has drained many of its peatlands to grow oil palms and other crops.

They say the cooked bones provide the first clear evidence of salmon fishing among the earliest Americans, Paleoindians, who crossed from Siberia into Alaska over the Bering Land Bridge more than 13,000 years ago.

Most of the emissions from clearing land happen right away, a step that makes corn ethanol's greenhouse emissions look very bad at first before they gradually improve over longer and longer time periods.

Another aspect that Beach is studying is whether Mayan practices of clearing upland wetland land for farming and using central reservoirs and canals «could be part of this broader increase of methane that has occurred over the later Holocene.»

At the same time, meteorologists noted several layers of smoke - filled air over the region that could be tracked back to fires set to clear agricultural lands for spring planting in eastern Mexico and Central America.

By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

To date, more than 110 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

He was much troubled over the circumstances; for his help was needed in clearing the land.

We have been designing quite a few kids rooms over the past couple of months, and this Land of Nod acrylic clear nightstand is one of my favorites!

Well styled second floor landing features a Two's Company Hanging Rattan Chair hung in a corner over a pink and blue vintage rug lit by a clear glass and bronze semi flush mount.

From the beginning it is clear that these men are in over their heads, trying to overpower a land and peoples that have remained untamed since the beginning of time, but their thirst for gold and power prevents them from seeing what should be obvious.

Looking at it today, it's clear why The Land That Time Forgot wasn't well - received when it was originally released, yet it's clear how it managed to carve out a small cult niche for itself over time.

Located 1 kilometre south of the Great Ocean Road and 3 kilometres from the magnificent Johanna beach, Muxy's Place is nestled in the foothills of the Otway ranges and features over 6 acres of cleared and natural eucalyptus bush land including a private rainforest and gully walk.

By visiting Burma in February, you'll beat the hottest time of year in sprawling cities like Mandalay, and get to see the Land of a Thousand Temples when skies are clearest and Balloons over Bagan are still flying.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

The silver lining i see here is invaluable experience creating and managing projects of the size and scale o XcX... The evolution of a long long long overdue open world design that finally does nt rely on «potato world» land / space / time compression (the hardware technology has been capable for over a decade...) This experience seems to have paid off in spades with monolithsofts work on the new Zelda being a clear show stopper.

Over here in COP - out - 17 land, I've used this in what I hope is a clear presentation to the uninitiated.

The similarities with GHG forcing are clear — mostly over N hemisphere, mostly over land, and with polar amplification.

The regulation allowed for only 20 percent of a farmer's land to be cleared — the landowners were to face a fine if they exceeded that usage or failed to replant trees had they cleared over the limit before.

«Clear Sky Visibility Has Decreased over Land Globally from 1973 to 2007.»

When anticyclones form over land, the skies above are often clear of cloud.

Using pollen, phytolith, and charcoal records to identify the distribution and composition of tropical vegetation and fire patterns over the past 11,000 years, Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, found evidence of widespread fire use for land - clearing by pre-Colombian populations in Latin America.

Vast tracts of land were cleared of forest cover and given over to tobacco plantations which changed drainage patterns and coastal aquifer recharge rates.

The evidence is clear, the debate is over: climate change is not, as has been claimed by many, «our moon landing», nor even the «defining issue of our generation».

However, over long time periods, the variation of the global average temperature with CO2 concentration depends on various factors such as the placement of the continents on Earth, the functionality of ocean currents, the past history of the climate, the orientation of the Earth's orbit relative to the Sun, the luminosity of the Sun, the presence of aerosols in the atmosphere, volcanic action, land clearing, biological evolution, etc..

Yes, I have been to nsidc.org a fair amount, particularly this page to try to understand each Northern Hemisphere summer what is going on with greenland ice melt: http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/ While I do like that page, I must say I have not been able to find what I am looking for there, as far as clear non-scientist-oriented data that shows land ice changes over the years, whether for the Antarctic, Greenland or other places.

Mr Walker said international observers questioned Australia over its land - clearing figures at climate talks in 2016, and the latest Queensland data were likely to prompt more queries.

Whether the clearing of land happened recently or over 100 years ago it looks to me, on the evidence, like environmental damage, if, as a consequence, floods cause as much damage as they do.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

Controversy swirls over German wind park builder JuWi Normally the clearing of forest land to make way for industry is required to undergo -LSB-...]

Land clearing laws have seen savannah — maintained by indigenous peoples over millennia --- give way to woody weeds, feral species and declining biodiversity over vast swathes of the Australian landscape.

''... report that «most trends exhibited no clear precipitation change,» noting that «global changes in precipitation over the Earth's land mass excluding Antarctica relative to 1961 - 90 were estimated to be: -1.2 ± 1.7, 2.6 ± 2.5 and -5.4 ± 8.1 percent per century for the periods 1850 - 2000, 1900 - 2000 and 1950 - 2000, respectively.»

Moving away from the tropics in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and clear desert areas over land.

A few months ago Brazil announced that rates of deforestation in the Amazon increased 3.8 % over the previous year and that it would be taking steps to crack down on illegal logging, land clearing (sometimes by burning) and illegal settlements.

Last week, fellow TreeHugger Brian Merchant highlighted how over the past 10 years a full 80 % of the land cleared in the Amazon has been for raising of beef cattle, and that that area now is the size of the nation of Iceland.

However, land clearing can seriously affect biodiversity, ecosystem services, and carbon storage over decades or centuries, discussed by Fargione et al. (2008), Searchinger et al. (2008), and Plevin et al. (2010).

Helicopter pilots are often required to do precision flying hovering over a particular spot or landing on small cleared areas.

It has become clearer over time that the focus of these policies has been on giving governments greater control over Indigenous land.

This is made clear by the High Court's own analysis of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)(RDA) and its application to the creation of non-Indigenous interests by the Crown over Indigenous land after 1975 (the date when the RDA came into effect) in the Miriuwung Gajerrong case.