Sentences with phrase «relatively small land»

Meanwhile in South Korea, just one example, on a relatively small land area a nation is powering ahead as manufacturers and producing steel from Australian ore and coal.

Not exact matches

Israel is still not sure that it can trust the world community to provide its security in this relatively small strip of land between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean Sea.

«Massachusetts can be proud it ranks in the top 15 among states in total amount of land protected — given that the Commonwealth is the seventh smallest state in the nation, and has relatively little land conservation activity by federal agencies,» Wilber said.

Mark Drakeford says «when we come to look at the detail of the potential of a land value tax [sic] we may find that it would apply in a relatively small number of occasions».

And all of Madagascar's land mammals are relatively small — no elephants, lions or giraffes there.

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

In such cases, setting aside a relatively small area of land for refuges can delay resistance substantially.

Roads, for example, appear to directly affect only a relatively small strip of land, but they also cut ecosystems in half, altering the survival prospects of species living on either side of them.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

«Future land transitions are uncertain but relatively small changes in afforestation from agriculture resulted in substantial decrease in accumulation rates,» said Coulston.

That's because while the Persian Gulf area has a relatively small, relatively wealthy population and little agricultural land, the areas likely to be hardest hit in northern India, Bangladesh, and southern Pakistan are home to 1.5 billion people.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

Canada covers 13 million square kilometres of land and water and contains a quarter of the planet's wetlands and freshwater resources, but has a relatively small population of 26 million.

«Small - scale farming tends to be relatively more efficient than large landholding enterprises... which continue to keep considerable amounts of land idle,» it said.

This investigation will not only be beneficial for space exploration, but it will also show how communities on Earth with little to no agricultural land and sunlight can grow edible plants in small spaces at relatively low costs.

Current estimates show that it has declined to less than 10 percent of its original range, and mostly consists of isolated and relatively small patches of land.

Just as impressive in a smaller role is the relatively unknown Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong «o, who plays Patsey, Epps» pet «property», who is not only the best cotton picker on the land, but also has the affection, for better or worse, of Epps, to the point where his jealous wife (Paulson, Game Change) commits her own wicked acts against her.

Disney / Pixar's massive hit «Coco» features fantastic lands, incredible creatures, and what co-director and co-writer (with Adrian Molina) Lee Unkrich called, «a relatively small story.

Despite the versatile and capacious interior, the footprint for the 2015 Land Rover Discovery Sport is relatively small — it stands at 180.7 inches long, 85.6 inches wide, and 67.9 inches tall.

The retention and update of the Tracer until 1999 reflected relatively strong sales figures for this model; Ford was selling north of 20,000 examples through the last three model years, as the Escort and Tracer duo were essentially Ford's smallest and most affordable models until the Focus landed in 1998 to save the day.

DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: I came out of our long - term Infiniti QX56 into the 2011 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged, and the first thing that struck me was how (relatively) small the Range Rover Sport was.

The relatively small, fuel - injected engine does a commendable job of keeping the van up with traffic, but do not expect it to turn the 3,500 - pound van into a land rocket.

And even if you sit on the land, untouched for years, your holding costs are relatively small.

For a relatively small country it packs a punch, complete with amazing surf beaches, rolling green hills, sub-alpine barren high lands, huge snow - capped volcanoes and of course, steamy jungle.

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

Likewise, dedicating a small fee on oil and gas production (or consumption) or a portion of increased royalties from energy production on public lands would ensure that as we enjoy relatively cheap and abundant energy supplies today, we are also setting aside the funds needed to make steady investments in the advanced energy technologies needed to secure cheap and abundant energy in the future.

Tropical land - surface precipitation measurements indicate that precipitation likely has increased by about 0.2 to 0.3 % / decade over the 20th century, but increases are not evident over the past few decades and the amount of tropical land (versus ocean) area for the latitudes 10 ° N to 10 ° S is relatively small.

We show that all the land - based data sets for China agree exceptionally well and that their residual warming compared to the SST series since 1951 is relatively small compared to the large - scale warming.

The energy density of these fuels is low and the amount of land that must be effectively industrialized, even for relatively small quantities of biofuels or biomass - derived electricity, is massive.

Once I do some double checking, you should be able to «see» how the slow and relatively small changes in SST are amplified by the lower capacity land masses and the atmospheric effect, to produce larger temperature swings with the same energy.

Antarctic snow, by the way, is THICKER than Arctic snow, so I wonder how this might figure in, given the HUGE size of the Antarctica continental land mass, compared to the relatively small size of the Arctic ocean.

To gain experience administering shared solar, Duke proposes to start relatively small, with 2 megawatts of solar on farms up to 75 miles from potential subscribers — maximizing both cheap land and the ability to recruit customers in urban areas.

My own view is that the initiating mechanism is not small shifts in insolation hitting some kind of trigger related to snow albedo (the land - sea snow - ice area is relatively small compared to potential shifts in cloud amount and spatial distribution)-- rather it is shifts in global winds which likely relate to shifts in the jetstream (linked to...?

Extending the estimates to cover other species — such as mammals, amphibians and some reptile, fish, plant and invertebrate groups — pushes the estimate to US$ 76.1 billion annually, a relatively small increase because these other species benefit greatly already by the protection of lands targeted for bird conservation efforts.

Even the relatively small use of biofuels in Europe that relies on North American wood pellets is already causing land - use impacts in the southeastern United States (John Upton of Climate Central has recently published an excellent report on this titled Pulp Fiction).

At the bottom are, again, states with a smaller population scattered across a relatively huge amount of land: Colorado, Nevada, and Alaska are so undersupplied that they actually don't have enough projected law grads for each new job over the last ten years.

Sugar Land, while relatively small in population, is not immune to serious vehicle crashes.

In terms of land area, it is ranked 43rd out of all 50 states and has a relatively small population of just 621,470 people.

With nearly nine million people sharing a relatively small piece of land, real estate can be difficult to find.

The Judge expressed his hope that funding would be provided for the PBCs, and observed: «It would be an absurd outcome if, after the expenditure of such large sums to reach a determination of native title, the proper utilisation of the land was hampered because of lack of a relatively small expenditure for the administration of the PBC».

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