Sentences with phrase «vast areas of land»

There are vast areas of land with little or no temperature readings, and many of the thermometers they do have are contaminated by urban heat island effects.

5 Human Rights Abuses Biofuels require vast areas of land if demand, driven by targets put in place by governments in Brussels, London and Washington, amongst others, are to be met.

Re # 10: It's not the mirrors as mirrors, it's the idea of destroying the natural ecosystems over vast areas of land in order to generate electricity — and the exercise in either cynicism or sheer obliviousness that is required to call the result «green power».

If the World warms, vast areas of land in the Northern Hemisphere, currently too cold to farm effectively will become available and other areas will improve in productivity.

The magnitude of the dimming was as large as 10 — 20 % (based on a monthly average) over vast areas of land and ocean regions.

Vast areas of the land surface have little or no current data and even less historic data.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Co-author of the study Professor Matthew Bennett, from Bournemouth University, said: «What we are seeing is the movement of people across vast areas of land.

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Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

The Brandt Commission found hope in the fact that vast irrigation schemes are being considered, especially in Africa, noting that such projects will enable the great rivers to become the means of transforming large areas of semiarid land into productive agricultural regions.

As long as vast areas of arable land remained untilled, care for the land seemed sentimental.

This gesture, of course, was expected; the City had title to vast stretches of vacant land in the Fast Brooklyn area, and no idea in the what to do with it.

If Leopold and other scientists are correct, if the land is indeed one organism and there is a total and critical interdependence among all living things, then the deliberate poisoning of vast areas of the U.S. will have been a long stride toward the end of life as it is known on the North American continent.

The vast amount of talent we possess in the wide areas of the midfield should be a position we feel most pleased with, but the plethora of talent seems to have become a hindrance for Garry Monk, unable to land on a consistent selection.

A chief in the Eastern Region, has given out vast tract of land to the youth in his area, and non-indigenes, who have interest in the cocoa sector, but are hindered by lack of land.

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

As a result, access to, control over and ownership of land, particularly in economically desirable areas, enables individuals and companies to earn vast windfall profits.

This vast and rugged region, part of the National Landscape Conservation System administered by the Bureau of Land Management, was the last major area in the lower 48 states to be formally mapped by cartographers.

They assessed the potential environmental impacts of 33 planned or existing corridors — spanning 53,000 kilometers — that would crisscross much of the African continent, opening up vast areas of sparsely populated land.

Most of the greening has taken place on the land north of 45 degrees latitude, a vast area that includes Canada, northern Europe and Russia (see graphic).

That would seem to leave 62 percent on the table for expanded human consumption but the vast majority of this biomass appears to be not harvestable because it includes root growth below ground and biomass production on lands in parks or wilderness areas that are either protected or inaccessible.

The region also has vast areas of forest land that are converted each year to agricultural and other uses, making land use change and reduction of emissions resulting from deforestation a top priority for the region.

Returning players who beat the game will find themselves with the game's last main quest staring them in the face and, to the northeast, a vast chunk of land just begging to be explored (and if you haven't finished the game yet, you aren't locked out of this area whatsoever, although I will say that you will want to be level 30 + before taking it on).

The setting is the Wind River Indian reservation, a vast, wintry area of land in central Wyoming.

To be sure, there are vast acreages bordering the semiarid areas which never should have been applied to crop growing, at least until the uncultivated lands of the humid regions, already provided with natural and social facilities for a more comfortable existence, had been more fully utilized.

Vast Agricultural Land Reserve areas just south of Vancouver are within 15 to 20 kilometres from the downtown core.

If you live on vast acres of land, the environmental impact of a single dog taking care of business may be insignificant, but if you live in an urban area with a little or no yard, it's a different story.

Bordered by Kakadu National Park, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, Arnhem Land is a vast, unspoiled wilderness area of more than 97,000 square kilometres (37,452 square miles).

With its remote wildlife areas and vast stretches of sparsely populated land, a Botswana safari tour is a very different experience than a safari elsewhere in Africa.

With a vast area of pure untouched beach with shrubs, trees and marsh lands providing shade, it is one of the most amazing beach locations in the country.

Albums in this gallery showcase images from a vast range of events on lands now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area including the 2007 Cosco Busan Oil Spill, the 1915

It sits in a vast swathe of land only 20 miles north east of the capital and a few minutes» drive from the A1, encompassing formal and informal gardens complete with a maze, a children's farm and play area, endless acres of rolling countryside to lose yourself in and even its own 12th century church.

The fact it was built a long time ago, when land prices were very low, allowed this resort to occupy a vast area and provide its guest with a feeling of comfort, peacefulness and space.

It is a land of vast coconut plantations fringed along the coastline, which is why the area is also known as «Bumi Nyiur Melambai» or «The Land of Waving Coconut Palms.&raland of vast coconut plantations fringed along the coastline, which is why the area is also known as «Bumi Nyiur Melambai» or «The Land of Waving Coconut Palms.&raLand of Waving Coconut Palms.»

Sprawling over an area of 30 acres of land, Marari Beach Resort is an exotic resort set amid coconut palm groves and a vast expanse of beach.

The Top End occupies the huge square bump at the top of the Australian map, half of which is the vast area of Arnhem Land, owned by the country's traditional Aboriginal people.

With vast areas of national parks and protected land, Costa Rica is an outdoor adventurer's dream and a mecca of ecotourism.

Marvel at this land of contrasts from red gibber plains stretching to the horizon, mound springs creating bush oasis and wetlands and Red Gum lined creeks and vast areas of grey salt bush and spiky Spinifex.

This is a land of contrasts, there is red gibber plains stretching to the horizon, mound springs (we visit Bubbler Springs and Blanche Cap Springs) which create bush oasis and wetlands, red gum lined creeks and vast areas of grey salt bush spiky Spinifex.

This is a land of contrasts from red gibber plains to mound springs at Bubbler Springs and Blanche Cup Springs which create bush oases and wetlands, red gum lined creeks and vast areas of grey salt bush, spiky Spinifex.

The weather changes all the time just to designate different areas in the vast lands not to designate the passing of time.

Returning players who beat the game will find themselves with the game's last main quest staring them in the face and, to the northeast, a vast chunk of land just begging to be explored (and if you haven't finished the game yet, you aren't locked out of this area whatsoever, although I will say that you will want to be level 30 + before taking it on).

The two longest ones are of temperature near the Earth's surface: a vast network of weather stations over land areas, and ship data from the oceans.

Vast areas of wheat and crop land will be in the same category.

The vast amount of desert (1/3 of the land area) is mostly due to starvation CO2 levels, which is why deserts are starting to green now.

At the northwestern end of the vast, fire - marred range that now covers a land area larger than most countries, temperatures near the Arctic Ocean shore at 70.9 ° N, 81.4 ° E are 86 degrees F (30 C)-- about 40 degrees F (22 C) above average.

Going hand - in - hand with efforts to reduce deforestation, urgent action is needed to restore the planet's vast areas of degraded land back to productivity.

The only land masses of any consequence in this vast area of at least one fifth of the entire globe is New Zealand and NZ's West Island, Australia.

Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction.»