Sentences with phrase «vast forest»

As vast forests spread across the land living biomass increased by orders of magnitude, pulling down carbon as CO2 from the atmosphere to make wood.

They believe vast forests generate winds that help pump water around the planet.

You may have noticed... vast forest fires last year.

Another provision under negotiation counts vast forests towards a country's emission - reduction credits, since trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air as they grow.

If you visited a Caribbean coral reef any time over the last few thousand years up until the early 1980s, you would have seen vast forests of branching elkhorn and staghorn corals, Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

St. Edwards Park is surrounded by vast forest with several natural water features, including a creek, waterfall and breathtaking high elevation views.

Explore vast forests inhabited by dangerous wolves, bears, and mountain lions, and investigate abandoned villages and old military compounds where zombies guard vital tools necessary for survival.

Research findings will fill critical data and knowledge gaps, serve as the basis for engaging key stakeholders at the state and federal levels, and build demand for strategies that address and limit the climate disruption of Alaska's vast forest carbon stocks.

«I feel I'm on the horns of a dilemma,» said Michelle Gao, who paid about 600,000 yuan ($ 87,825) toward the 1.2 million yuan cost of a two - bedroom apartment at Country Garden Holdings Co.'s vast Forest City development.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos called the initiative «a milestone effort to protect and conserve the state's vast forest resources held by more than 700,000 forest owners across New York.»

The story revolves around two men that go into Japan's Aokigahara, a mysterious and vast forest also known as the Suicide Forest or Sea of Trees.

The second impression was of dark vast forest, inimical wilderness.

Vast forests replaced with cropland or barren tracts of stumps.

The London flotation of Cosleg partner Oryx diamonds was aborted, its cobalt mining venture didn't pay — which leaves DRC's vast forest reserves.

The past 150 years of clearing, regrading and development have left only remnants of the once vast forest that cloaked the Puget Sound region.

Some liveaboard itineraries also venture into Triton Bay, which is known for extensive soft coral coverage, vast forests of black coral, big schools of fish, epaulette sharks, pilot whales and more.

Explore vast forests and scale tall mountains in this rugged, weather - beaten part of Hyboria.

Provinces may have an ulterior motive to favour wood in that they derive stumpage fees from their vast forest lands.

Brazil nuts are often harvested from trees in the vast forests of Brazil and Bolivia.

Local governments and environmental groups have united to blast an executive state budget proposal to use payment - in - lieu - of - taxes agreements instead of market value to calculate taxes on the vast Forest Preserve holdings in the Adirondack Park and the Catskills.

Following sustained the Military's air and land bombardment of Boko Haream Camps inside Sambisa Forest, scores of fleeing members of the terrorists gang fleeing the onslaught through one of the exit routes of the vast forest, have met their waterloo at the hands of Nigerian troops at Pulka.

Following sustained the Military's air and land bombardment of Boko Haream Camps inside Sambisa Forest, scores of fleeing members of the terrorists gang fleeing the onslaught through one of the exit routes of the vast forest, have met their waterloo at the hands -LSB-...]

Then it would either explode just aboveground — as one most likely did in 1908, leveling a vast forest in the Tunguska region of Siberia — or gouge a crater 20 times its size.

And regardless of climate change, our results are yet one more very good reason to protect these vast forests.»

It's an appealing idea, a vast forest to soak up the extra carbon released due to Trump's policies, but it may not be so easy in reality, says Olive Heffernan

This «biotic pump» model contends that a vast forest such as the Amazon draws in large amounts of water vapor.

Carbon dioxide concentrations will probably drop below 400 ppm by midsummer, as the vast forests of the Northern Hemisphere leaf out fully and begin breathing it in.

Trees are good at keeping carbon out of the air, and simply preserving the planet's vast forests is a straightforward way to get a huge head start on the business of slowing climate change.

Just know that Hec and Ricky go AWOL together in the vast forest, and the boy's social worker, Paula (Rachel House), assumes it is a molester's child abduction requiring a national manhunt.

Language: English Genre: Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Debra Granik Actors: Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey Plot: A father and his teen daughter have lived for years off the grid in the vast forests of Portland, Oregon.

When a German engineer gets off the plane in Los Angeles for the first time, he expects to be greeted by a vast forest of churning windmills powering the electric grid, plus an array of solar batteries on the roof of every Starbucks.

But mysteries abound at Ashton Place: Who are these three wild creatures, and how did they come to live in the vast forests of the estate?

We drive for many kilometers through a vast forest with pine trees and spruces as far as the eye can see.

It takes us over mountains, along swamps, lakes, vast forests and isolated farms (often for sale).

Rocky mountains, vast forests, soft hilly landscapes and magnificent sandy beaches all go into characterising the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

China is full of strange natural sights, among them the Bamboo Sea, a vast forest of bamboo plants, deserted outside of peak tourist season.

Tucked inside a vast forest, this little treasure awaits visitors to have a soothing dip in her natural pool after a long, challenging, and tiring trek.

, vast forests and nostalgic steam locomotives working hard on this steeply - graded line.

Vast forests of elkhorn coral, leaf coral and finger coral extend in narrow bands on either side of the cut.

It is an excellent dive region in its own right with fabulous soft coral coverage, vast forests of black coral, big schools of fish, epaulette sharks, turtles, whale sharks, pilot whales and more.

Guided excursions through the valleys of Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Phobjikha and Bumthang offer the chance to experience a remote kingdom, with vast forests, dramatic inclines and 7,000 - metre peaks.

Albany Tour Itinerary — Tour runs from December to June cost Adult $ 375.00, Concession $ 350.00, Twin share extra $ 50.00 Albany Tour — Day 1 (H) Leaving Perth in the morning, our vehicle heads south into the vast forest and southern wheat belt area towards the fishing and maritime City of Albany located on King George Sound (pop; 30 000).

Perth to Albany — Day 1 (L, D) Leaving Perth in the morning, our vehicle heads south into the vast forest and southern wheat belt area towards the fishing and maritime City of Albany located on King George Sound (pop; 30 000).

Albany Whale Watching Tour — Day 1 Leaving Perth in the morning, our vehicle heads south into the vast forest and southern wheat belt area towards the fishing and maritime City of Albany located on King George Sound (pop; 30 000).

While it shares some of Raja Ampat's best features such as exceptional soft coral growth, it also has some unique features, not least the vast forest - like swathes of black coral.

There are regular cultural displays, art exhibitions, musical performances, plus a vast forest that can be enjoyed as a slightly touristic but worth the while nonetheless Monkey Forest day outing just watch out for the thieving monkeys.

Ori and the Blind Forest is all of those things and more (sometimes simultaneously) thanks to an incredible hand - painted style that employs unique art for every area and creature throughout the vast forest of Nibel.

Besides wanting to call them Meeses, I remember a very specific part of this story in which the main character, after surviving a plane crash and lost in the wilderness of Canada, is attacked by a Moose — and so, as with all stories we read or hear when we're younger, Canada was immediately painted in my mind as a land of vast forests, cold weather, and giant, killer Mooses.