Sentences with phrase «reclaimed by the land»

The photograph titled Mastodon features an open field with a mysterious tree and root system that has fallen — twisted, blackened and reclaimed by the land.

Petruno says vacant homes can be spiritually «reclaimed by the land» and then ghosts can freely take up residence.

Not exact matches

Since then the area of newly reclaimed land has been offset by that lost to degradation and conversion to non-farm uses.

Johnson is now petitioning to give Chapman a suitable memorial, but her efforts are hampered by the private cemetery's intention to reclaim the land.

The forecast for flooding later this week will test the work done by Niagara County crews to reclaim land inundated or washed away by Lake Ontario's high water.

Kennecott Utah Copper has also spent US$ 400m in reclaiming and restoring land affected by mining operations in the past.

David also worked on successful property rights legislation that ensured property owners got to see land appraisals possessed by the condemner and an opportunity to reclaim their propriety if is not used for the government's originally stated purpose.

He explained that the collaborators were companies who had their own money, and were doing something similar to what the Ministry was doing, whilst the PPP were organisations with their own funding, but wanted government to meet them half way by allowing them to mine and use the money to reclaim the land.

An Abandoned Copper Mine Land contaminated by runoff from industrial waste may soon be reclaimed by an unusual army of eco-warriors: metal - eating earthworms.

But these pastors were moved by the human beings who were losing their homes and livelihood as the seas reclaimed their land.

Once the land becomes inadequate for crop production, it is left to be reclaimed by natural vegetation, or sometimes converted to a different long term cyclical farming practice.

The Future Forest Initiative, founded by a UNCCD Dryland Ambassador Byong Hyon Kwon, brings together youth volunteers though its Green Corps program with the goal to plant one billion trees in China's Kubuchu Desert and prove that degraded lands can be successfully reclaimed.

Newark Airport was the New York City area's first commercial airport, opened in 1928 on land reclaimed by the Port Authority.

The Wario Land series had only been on portables up to that release, so the franchise might have been hurt by the transition, meaning it could reclaim its place as a handheld gem via some port work.

A small town held to ransom by an unscrupulous mining baron enlists the aid of seven gunfighters to help reclaim their land and rid themselves of their oppressor.

There they will regroup, and Charles will investigate reclaiming ancestral family land in China, land that he believes could be another start to greatness for him, the life that he, by right, should have had if the Japanese had not invaded China, if Communism had not spread, and if a number of other things had not happened so long ago.

Gardens by the Bay is a park spanning 101 hectares of reclaimed land in central Singapore.

Diddy Kong and Donkey Kong are tricked into a bet by Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Land, and the two travel again to reclaim Donkey's Banana Hoard from King K. Rool.

But those who stick it out, who learn the ways of the [i] Odama [/ i] and the Path of Heavenly Duty (also called the «Way of Ninten»... or «Ninten - do»), and who take up the cause of reclaiming the lands and honor of the Kurasawa clan by delivering the Ninten Bell through ten enemy - filled battlefields... they will not be completely unrewarded.

X-O Manowar # 19 Written by: Robert Venditti Art by: Cary Nord Aric of Dacia has fought to reclaim the ancestral lands of the Visigoths — and he has bled for it.

When an evil entity known only as Void Dark takes control of the many netherworlds with his massive army, it's up to a small group of rebels led by a powerful fighter named Killia to reclaim these captured lands and stop Void Dark's conquest once and for all!

Either by pushing the Militesi Empire back or reclaiming land and cities thought to be their own, Rubrum and its accompanying Class Zero are called into action for a large scale war.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

The video investigates the future of Maasvlakte 2, an engineering project in Rotterdam that will convert the site of Maasvlakte, originally created by reclaiming land from the North Sea, into a new port.

Using the form of landscape photography, a tradition born with industrial expansion, these photographs evidence nature's force as it reclaims land subdued and ruled by a myopic civilization.

Birch's vision (backlit by the halos of Valerie Solanas, Judith Butler, and Barbara Kruger) dares us to rise in a collective wave once again — this time to eradicate the enemy and reclaim the land until it is fecund and green once more.

He shows the disintegration of structures and markings left by human beings as nature reclaims the land.

Sitting on 77 hectares of reclaimed land along Manila Bay, the Cultural Centre was designed by the modernist architect Leandro Locsin as the nucleus of Imelda Marcos» vision for «A New Society» — the rebirth of the Philippine nation under her and Ferdinand's auspices.

The city - state of Singapore may be small, but that doesn't stop developers from expanding its boundaries outward by building on reclaimed land.

Fortunately, the government mandates the creation of green space for every big development, and that's evident with Gardens by the Bay, the 101 - hectare botanical gardens built on waterfront reclaimed land, which opened earlier this year.

They begin by noting that there are 1.86 billion hectares of degraded land in the world — land that was once forestland, cropland, or grassland — and that half of this, or 930 million hectares, has a decent chance of being profitably reclaimed.

Located within a man - made cultural landscape of a Dutch polder (land reclaimed from the sea), the firm was engaged by Delta Development Group in 2007 to create a new model of sustainable development that implements the Cradle to Cradle philosophy holistically and at all scales — from the city to the molecule.

The Dutch even applied wind power to reclaim land from the sea, and the whole country was kept dry by intermittently operating wind mills until 1850.

Old highways are reclaimed by natural vegetation, land covered by hot lava soon has ferns and other plants growing on it, and even oil spills are quickly oxidized and «eaten» by micro-organisms that render it harmless.

Dyanna Jaye, representing ICLEI U.S. Local Governments for Sustainability and Sunrise Movement said, «Flooding is routine in my coastal Virginia home town; our lands are being slowly reclaimed by the Atlantic Ocean and communities have been forced to flee their homes.

said, «Flooding is routine in my coastal Virginia home town; our lands are being slowly reclaimed by the Atlantic Ocean and communities have been forced to flee their homes.

It is possible, by creating depressions where the land was flat, to increase biodiversity by making ponds and lakes where wetland plants, insects, and waterfowl can become established in the reclaimed landscape.

Although governments and the oil industry claim that all of the land disturbed by tar sands development will be reclaimed, little reclamation has already taken place.

For other land disturbed by these projects, uplands fare better than wetlands, and in either case «reclaimed conditions will resemble and function as natural landscapes, provided that the legislated requirements are fully implemented, but reclaimed conditions will not be identical to the pre-disturbance state.»

If your answer is YES, then it just might be possible that a much larger reforestration (land reclaimed by high - density, fast - growing Neotropical biomass from that used by 50M people doing low - density agriculture) might have had an effect... One more time: the relevant - to - this - post interesting scientific question is whether or not a cooling that certainly happened would have had different * regional * fingerprints depending on the relative contributions of:

Built on reclaimed waterfront land, the 101 - hectacre gardens comprise three separate landscapes and includes two massive (but energy - efficient) biomes designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects that contain tens of thousands of Mediterranean and tropical plants.

The promise of native title was that terra nullius would be replaced, not by another value judgment by the non-Indigenous legal system about what Aboriginal society was thought to be, but rather by the laws acknowledged and the customs observed by the Indigenous people reclaiming their land.

The Queens Chain regulation that states all land within 20 m on the shoreline is owned by the government and can only be leased, but since The Landings is built on reclaimed land the rule does not apply.