Sentences with phrase «square kilometres of»

The claim covers approximately 42,000 square kilometres of sea, above the high water mark in the Torres Strait and Coral Sea between Cape York Peninsula and the mainland of Papua New Guinea.

The determination recognises the Gunaikurnai people's traditional ownership across much of Gippsland, including rights to some 22,000 square kilometres of lands.

Subject to existing rights, the Tlicho Government will own a single block of approximately 39,000 square kilometres of land, including the subsurface resources, adjacent to or surrounding the four Tlicho communities.

The Court recognised exclusive possession native title over approximately 1037 square kilometres of land at the northern end of the Dampier Peninsula, and non-exclusive possession native title over the inter-tidal zone.

The Gunditjmara modified more than 100 square kilometres of the landscape.

The area comprised about 30 square kilometres of land and water most of which was Crown land or held by Darwin City Council and Palmerston City Council.66 The area generally has not been used for commercial or residential development.

By recognizing and affirming the Tsilqot» in Nation's title to over 1700 square kilometres of territory, the Supreme Court has given full effect to the words of section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.

Their claim covered 133 individual territories, amounting to 58,000 square kilometres of the northwestern part of their province.

VANCOUVER — The Fraser Institute — an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think - tank ---- released a new report last week looking at the national implications of the Supreme Court of Canada's recent ruling granting over 1,700 square kilometres of land in British Columbia to the Tsilhqot» in First Nation, marking the first time the court has made a ruling of this kind regarding aboriginal land.

On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) granted the Tsilhqot» in Nation a declaration of Aboriginal title over 1,750 square kilometres of its territory.

There is enough ice and snow packed deep over 1.7 million square kilometres of Greenland that, were it all to melt, would cause a rise in global sea levels of about six metres.

Ice covers 105,000 square kilometres of the archipelago.

In separate news, for example, Chile is planning one of the largest marine reserves in the world around Easter Island — ready to encircle 447,000 square kilometres of ocean.

FCAI is comprised of professional foresters that have managed over 50,000 square kilometres of Crown Forests in Ontario and have overseen the planting of over 25 million trees in the last three years.

This combination will provide Australia with E85 for most petrol powered vehicles (including Hybride electrics and light aircraft) for the cost of 1.2 million hectares of tropical land covering much of the motive power required, and Solar power for 90 percent of Austlia's electricity consumption for the cost of 700 square kilometres of land covered with CSP collectors.

From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.

Indeed, it is now believed that even less rain fell over the 5.3 million square kilometres of the Amazon in 2010, potentially making last year's drought the worst on record.

The tar sands lie under approximately 142,000 square kilometres of Alberta, an area about the size of England.

Satellite data records reveal that the worrying loss of hundreds of square kilometres of ice along West Antarctica's coastline has been occurring for decades

The Alberta government already has approved tar sands leases covering 92,000 square kilometres of Alberta's northern boreal forest, an area the size of Indiana or Hungary.

In the past 10 days, the Arctic ocean has been losing as much as 150,000 square kilometres of sea a day, said Mark Serreze, director of the NSIDC.

The scientists focused their study on four large glaciers in Nepal's Dudh Kosi river basin, which holds 400 square kilometres of glacial ice.

«Satellite images dating back to 1973 and old maps earlier than that show some 1,000 square kilometres of land have risen from the sea,» Sarker said.

In short, regarding energy storage, contrast 6,000 square kilometres of reservoirs or 10,000 tonnes of nuclear fuel to power NYC for 100 years..

Contrast this with the area of reservoirs required if pumped hydro energy storage was used: Assuming two reservoirs with vertical separation of 100 m and 10 m active storage depth in each, we'd need with 300 square kilometres of reservoirs to power NYC for 3 days.

Over 26000 popular gardens cover 2438,7 hectares in Havana and produce 25000 tons of food each year; a total of 299 square kilometres of urban agriculture produces 113525 tons / year (Mario Gonzalvez Novo and Catherine Murphy in Bakker et al. 2000);

Planktos, a self - styled «eco-restoration» firm that also doubles as a nuclear fusion company (3), intends to dump tens of tonnes of tiny iron particles over 10,000 square kilometres of ocean around the Galapagos Islands at the end of May 2007.

The study, conducted by climate change experts from the universities of Leeds and Exeter and the Met Office, all in the UK, and the universities of Stockholm and Oslo, suggests that nearly four million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming the planet experiences.

LONDON, 11 October, 2015 — Record sea temperatures combined with a strong El Niño are causing widespread coral bleaching, which is threatening to kill over 12,000 square kilometres of reefs.

It reveals that the EU's plans for biofuels will result in the conversion of up to 69 000 square kilometres of land to agricultural use potentially putting forests, other natural ecosystems, and poor communities at risk.

The ice extent is about to drop below 4 million square kilometres for the first time in the satellite record, and the Arctic has shed almost half a million square kilometres of sea - ice in last five days!

Anthony can hold the stakes, «ice - free» to be defined as less than a million square kilometres of ice at the lowest point.

And a 2014 Supreme Court of Canada decision — brought by the current chief Roger William — granted the Xeni Gwet» in title to 1,750 square kilometres of land.

It would save lives too, reducing the notional premature death toll by 23,000, and would burn only about 4,000 square kilometres of forest.

But the land that could be used to resettle those refugees is dwindling: between 1981 and 2003, around 35 million square kilometres of the planet became «degraded» and now make up almost one fourth of the world's drylands.

And how much worse is our knowledge of the average temperature once we consider that we have, on average, only one single lonely thermometer for every 85,000 square kilometres of land, and we don't know if that single temperature is affected by UHI or not?

In case of achieving the 450 Scenario, that for instance requires all industrialised nations to reduce their GHG emissions by 25 - 40 percent between 1990 and 2020, Arctic summer sea ice would recover from around 2035 - quite sharply - and establish a new equilibrium state at around 2.5 million square kilometres of ice, still a loss of almost 2 million compared to the current situation.

What we have is less than two thousand temperature stations of unknown and highly variable quality, to measure the average temperature of ~ 150 million square kilometres of land.

My most immediate response is that Trichosurus arnhemensis is found in 7 different ecoregions (Arnhem Land tropical savanna, Carnarvon xeric shrublands, Carpentaria tropical savanna, Kimberly tropical savanna, Pilbara shrublands, Victoria Plains tropical savanna, Western Australian Mulga shrublands) which include hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of some extremely isolated land in Australia.

That is the warning in a new European Commission (EC) study, which also says that failing to take the necessary action could burn 8,000 square kilometres of forest, and commit European taxpayers to at least $ 190 billion (US$ 259 bn) a year in economic losses.

The eight year study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed China currently has 48,571 glaciers, covering 51,480 square kilometres and containing 5,600 square kilometres of ice.

The town is blessed with stunning beaches, miles of pure sand, dense rainforest home to a range of native species (including koalas) and 220 square kilometres of surrounding marine park.

Discover vineyards, beaches, coastal walkways and secluded bays Waiheke Island boasts 92 square kilometres of sandy beaches, vineyards, native bush settings, pristine coastline, olive groves andlaid - back seaside villages, and is only a 40 minutes cruise away from Downtown Auckland.

As well as the mountains, the 6,641 square kilometres of the park boast the emerald waters of Lake Louise, jagged peaks and flower - filled havens.

Fast track your Fraser Island adventure and forget the hassle of self - driving — we've got you covered with a range of tours that tackle the 1840 square kilometres of the world's largest sand island on a time limit.

An underwater paradise; Hastings Reef, ten square kilometres of spectacular corals and exotic fish.

Looking out over the seemingly endless Serengeti plains, this hillside lodge is a tranquil oasis set in thousands of square kilometres of national park.

Maldives covers approximately 90,000 square kilometres of ocean, and it's no surprise that seafood and fish are the protagonists of many dishes.

Taman Negara, Malaysia's premier national park covers four thousand square kilometres of rainforests and is estimated to be more than 130 million years old!

Just to prove to you that this city has everything, get lost in Collserola Natural Park, 85 square kilometres of mountains, trees and beautiful nature that sits just behind the city, offering spectacular views of the city and out towards the sea.