Sentences with phrase «than green trees»

Dead trees are more vulnerable to fire than green trees.

Not exact matches

They point to recent examples, in which Woodside announced a major project to extract oil from mallee trees and produce electricity, in a venture that appears greener than an Irishman's heart.

Evergreen funding takes its name from coniferous evergreen trees, which keep their leaves and stay green throughout the entire year rather than losing them during winter.

But It was real, more real than the shabby appearances that are so easy to mistake for reality, as real as new green leaves on a dying tree.

The trees are just beginning to bud, the grass is a spectrum of muddy browns and dull greens, and temperatures are consistently less than 50 degrees.

More so than freezes — the last serious one in Dicks» area was in 1989 — diseases such as citrus greening and citrus canker are threatening his trees and lowering production.

Pruned short in cultivation, but capable of growing more than 30 feet high, a coffee tree is covered with dark - green, waxy leaves growing opposite each other in pairs.

While their parents spent free time in activities like a neighborhood game of tag, building forts, or climbing trees, the modern child's day includes far more screen time than green time.

Michelle Obama insisted the tree be green in more ways than just its color.

MiloGem Inc. of St. Charles was the successful bidder and will install more than $ 93,000 in new playground equipment and new landscaping in Cook, Riverside, Charles Brown, Green Tree and Blueberry Parks.

Thesun was out, the trees were green (greener than he'd imagined), and theslopes were surrounded by gorgeous cliffs (were they miles away or justa few hundred yards?).

AMERICA's National Christmas Tree, a stone's throw from the White House, is greener than usual this yule.

And other studies of green anoles have shown changes, too: Anoles that moved to a new island with more trees than bushes evolved longer legs, perhaps to travel greater distances, whereas anoles living in cities have apparently evolved stickier feet to cling to metal and glass.

The tree of life shows us that flowering plants are Earth's most complex green algae, fungi are closer to animals than to plants, and we are essentially very strange fish.

The report estimates that Beijing planted more than 30 million trees and bushes to establish 720 green spaces in the city center.

The model, built on more than three decades of research led by Vincent Chiang of the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University, will speed the process of engineering trees for specific needs in timber, biofuel, pulp, paper and green chemistry applications.

According to its supporters, bamboo's fast growth means it sequesters more carbon than slower - growing trees, thus qualifying the flooring and plywood for a «rapidly renewable» materials accreditation under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system [see «MisLEEDing?»

Moringa tree leaves are also a great source of antioxidants, registering a higher ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) score than most antioxidant rich superfoods like Acai, green tea, blueberries, and goji berries.

The bags are much easier to find than green plugs in a green tree.

It's a little more subdued than traditional red buffalo plaid, and the green reminds me of evergreen trees.

I didn't want to feel overwhelmed by holiday decor and for the first time ever I decorated our tree to match our living room rather than our traditional red and green approach.

They include the green - skinned assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana, hiding her looks far less than she did in Avatar) as well as cynical, genetically engineered upright raccoon bounty hunter Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper, doing his best Baby Herman) and his tree - like humanoid protector of very few words, Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel).

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Savitz - Romer and Bouffard led an exercise in which they asked each participant to write — on green paper leaves that would be later be added to a paper tree — a reason for going to college other than to eventually make more money.

The company also tries to display its green credentials by noting that the interior trim wood comes from sunken logs and fire - damaged trees, rather than live timber.

This interactive map shows the location of more than 5,000 registered Green Belt Movement - supported tree nurseries across Kenya.

The beach was exactly like its picture, all palm trees and blue water and green hills, with sandflies that brushed and stung your ankles to remind you that it was real, and little shacks planted here and there that sold bake»n' shark — deep - fried shark in a pocket of fried fresh dough that tasted better than anything she'd ever eaten.

After more than 30 years of helping Kenyan women improve their lives and communities by growing trees on farmland, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has learned a lot about how farmers can benefit each other.

Through her work with the Green Belt Movement (GBM), the organization she founded in 1977 that has planted more than 50 million trees throughout Kenya, Wangari understood in her bones the commitment of the hummingbird.

While I stridently caution against mixing amphibian species due to issues of toxicity, I will admit to having kept a tank populated with green tree frogs, their close cousins grey tree frogs and fire - bellied toads (a misnamed Asiatic frog with a rough skin) that thrived for more than a decade.

If you want to find us on a hot, summer's day, look no further than a green lawn and a shady tree.

This is a smaller tree than the coconut palm, with smaller, fan shaped glossy green leaves and attains a height of 10 to 12 feet.

Spanning the longest and best stretch of Jamaica's famous seven - mile beach, this is the only hotel in Negril to have won the coveted Green Globe Award, emblematic of its environmentally - friendly ambiance where even the architecture has been designed to be lower than the highest palm trees.

Trust us, you'll hardly notice that Gili Air is a little greener, or that there's more coconut tree plantations on one island than another.

When you start playing the game things immediately feel a little off; rather than the typical rolling green hills that usually await you in World 1 - 1 you are instead greeted by a background spotted with Egyptian pyramids and palm trees.

Similarly, the two vividly colored paintings from the 1990s at Cheim & Read (both called «Trees» and dated 1990 - 91) as well as the churning «Cypresses» from 1975 (which, like 1964's «First Cypress,» employs chrome green and black) concentrate more on their own making than on outside indicators, as slashing brushstrokes coagulate into groupings of unstable forms while carving out deep recesses of space.

«The Grass is Always Greener» is a collaboration with art collective Fallen Fruit that began last May with «Endless Orchard,» the planting of more than 20 fruit trees in Buffalo's Fruit Belt neighborhood, and will continue with the design and installation of fruit flags in the Anderson Gallery and possibly other sites in the community.

I've heard of more than a few instances in which expensive California homes with lush green landscapes dotted with imported palm trees burned down and then rebuilt — and replanted the same greenery, even palms, rich in oils, are essentially bombs.

Less than two decades ago, newspapers actually felt the need to warn voters that national Republican leaders had advised candidates to «green up their image by participating in public tree plantings and visiting zoos» on Earth Day.

Several things probably come to mind when you think about plants: green, life, oxygen, photosynthesis, trees - intelligence, more likely than not, is not one of them.

Isn't the truth that we owe more (in regard to carbon consumption) to bits of green slimy stuff than to trees?

bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.

Foresters replant 52 million trees per year, three for everyone harvested, keeping the Evergreen State greener than ever.

Any normal study of creating a solar sink would look no farther than the trees and paint roads green.

Tree Canada has planted more than 80 million trees, greened more than 550 schoolyards and have helped in the greening of urban forests in over 500 communities across the country, leaving a legacy that is benefitting all Canadians.

There is a lot more green out there than just trees eating CO2.

Through her work with the Green Belt Movement (GBM), the organization she founded in 1977 that has planted more than 50 million trees throughout Kenya, Wangari understood in her bones the commitment of the hummingbird.

This interactive map shows the location of more than 5,000 registered Green Belt Movement - supported tree nurseries across Kenya.

Brandon Collins, a research fire scientist with the Forest Service and University of California at Berkeley, said that since green trees contain more moisture than dead trees, it's easier for combustion to take place.

In all more than one hundred towering tipuana trees line the road like a living colonnade, forming what some have called a «green tunnel» over three city blocks.