Sentences with phrase «run vast farms»

Currently the same region is experiencing a period of drought, but the large agribusinesses continue to run vast farms by drawing on the Ogallala Aquifer - a huge, but not inexhaustible, water source created 15,000 years ago when the glaciers melted.

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Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

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Second of all, and perhaps most important, one of Google's major issues (as well as all similar companies) is the availability of reasonably priced energy to run their vast server farms.

Last week, the BBC ran a series of reports by its science correspondent, David Shukman, on the Government's plan to ring our coasts with vast offshore wind farms.