Sentences with phrase «same area of forest»

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«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

«Our research at a ranch in Paragominas, Para, shows that while a tract of forest supports 53 ant species, the same area in grazing land has just 24 species.

The same hollowing - out of supposedly protected areas takes place throughout Kalimantan, where more than half of the forest cover has been lost from them since 1985, some 3 million hectares in all.

These satellite images, encompassing an area about 150 miles wide, show a tremendous loss of forest over just 12 years (the forest in 2000 on the left, and the same forest in 2012 to the right).

They also measured the thickness of the forest floor in the same areas where samples were placed.

One study we reviewed found that if temperatures rise 3.2 °F by mid-century, this could lead to 54 % increase in the annual area burned in the western U.S. 22 The same study found that the forests of the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains will likely experience the greatest increases in annual burn area (78 % and 175 %, respectively).

Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].

With over 150 islands off its coast, mangrove forests, rain forests, beautiful beaches, limestone cliffs, small villages in rather undeveloped rural areas, and only one main resort town, the province of Krabi is the perfect place to spend at the same time a relaxing and exciting holiday.

At 1200km2 (745m2) this area of forest is the same size as Manhattan.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (the same group that last year ran ads saying, «Carbon dioxide... They call it pollution... We call it life) last week excoriated federal officials for generations of bad forest management on federal lands and for state and federal insurance policies that encourage building in fire - prone areas.

And see the difference between Diekirch (not a typical rural area, but with a lot of forests in the valley) and Mauna Loa in modern times: during the day with sufficient wind speed, the Diekirch data are around the MLO values of the same days in July: and

The area of forest in North and Central America was estimated as almost the same in 2010 as in 2000.

At the same time, improved governance, new market - based compensation systems that reward environmental performance, and continued expansion of protected areas will be key to saving forests like the Amazon.

After a century of suppression, a photograph of the same area from 1981 (Figure 1D below) shows a vast expanse of interconnected forest with a high fuel load now dominating landscape and primed for a huge fire.

Looking just at tropical forests, this would save an area the same size as Spain, along with a similar amount of temperate forests and more than twice that area of grasslands.

An additional 150 million hectares of forest lands have been granted protected status since 1990, and during that same period, area that were already protected have grown in size by around 200 million hectares.

At the same time, forest area expanded in some places, either through planting or natural processes, bringing the global net loss of forest to 8.3 million hectares per year.

The same goes for the cooking stove powered by electricity from biomass, although it would produce considerably more air pollution than the biomass stove, and require a much larger area of sustainably managed forest.