Sentences with phrase «vast forest fires»

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

Not exact matches

Logging, agriculture, mining and fires recently have eliminated a larger chunk of vast expanses of forests or naturally treeless ecosystems than you might think

DEKALB, Miss. — The nation's first coal - fired power plant aiming to capture the majority of its carbon dioxide emissions rises like a silver city from a vast, cleared plot of Mississippi pine forests.

Vast plumes of smoke from forest fires and agricultural burning are common in the Amazon Basin and elsewhere in the tropics, Rosenfeld notes.

In Germany, with vast tracts of forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible level.

In her first solo show at this pocket - sized space, local painter Karen Marston focuses on such potentially destructive events, attempting to capture something of the vast scale and frightening power of tornados and forest fires.

The fires sweeping parched, baked peat bogs and forests in western Russia have raised a vast smoke pall captured by NASA satellites.

A monster forest fire that began in early May is still burning in Canada's vast, isolated north woods.

IMHO, applying stochastic methods on some specific grid points in the climate models that might have something «unusual», such as a random forest fire, forest clearance, crop failure, or a vast algal bloom, or overfishing going on, might be reasonable, but deteremining the boundary conditions for these to happen is another matter.

Wildfires could flip the script, though, turning boreal forests into sources of carbon emissions as fires burn through the vast reserves of carbon locked in the trees and soil (something already happening in California).

Wildfires could flip the script, though, turning boreal forests into sources of carbon emissions as fires burn through the vast reserves of carbon locked in the trees and soil (something

In the years prior to 1985, several publications reported the scientific consensus that acid rain emitted by coal - fired electricity generation plants belching sulfur dioxide was destroying vast swathes of forests and lakes in the eastern United States.

Here, in recent years, vast fires have burned through grass, forest and permafrost alike.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910017.stm «The vast numbers affected by the effects of climate change, such as flooding, drought and forest fires, mean that potentially people, organisations and even countries could be seeking compensation for the damage caused.

Already there have been massive forest fires in Borneo and Amazonia, casting palls of highly polluting smoke over vast areas.

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.

After 351 years, the (coal - fired) industrial revolution, almost total forest clearing, population growth to 60 millions, and vast urban development the average temperature in 2010 was 8.83 degrees C.

VANCOUVER — More than half a dozen major fires are burning in vast dead pine forests killed by mountain pine beetles, increasing risks to firefighters and communities.

«So we see vast stands of dead trees, and more forest fires.»