Sentences with phrase «vast rain forest»

Parts of the vast rain forest are as much aquatic as terrestrial ecosystems.

No one — not Dos Santos or any of the other villagers of Barra do São Manuel, a tiny settlement on the banks of the Tapajós River deep in the Brazilian Amazon, or anyone else in the vast rain forest — relishes facing it, with or without shotgun in hand.

Fray Jorge lies at the north end of a vast rain forest belt that stretches southward some 600 miles to the tip of Chile.

In her recent exhibit Markings (Sacred Landscapes), Marilyn Bridges offers a small survey of photographs she took during her numerous flights over the desolate plains of Peru, Gaza, Egypt, and the vast rain forests of the Yucatán.

Not exact matches

Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly.

They pollinate plants, including 80 percent of the world's 94 major food crops, as well as vast tracts of tropical rain forest.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

Coral reefs have been called the rain forests of the ocean because of their vast biodiversity and genetic wealth.

But as logging opened up vast swaths of Central African rain forest, poachers increasingly targeted elusive forest elephants under a green canopy that hid their kills from aerial surveillance.

Africa is a wonderfully vast and varied continent, from the majestic sand dunes of the desert in Namibia, through the dark, dense rain forests of eastern Congo, to the sun - bleached, palm - fringed coast of Kenya.

Obviously, the vast majority of tropical rain forest and desert denizens are out of the question, except for many of the arachnids, which tend to be nocturnal and adjust very well to tanks with a limited and low - level heat source, such as an under - tank heater.

It's the perfect place to Share the beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and vast lava fields with your kids.

A true nature - lover's paradise, this Central American nation offers 800 miles of shoreline and vast stretches of protected rain forest and reserves.

British Columbia offers a sea kayaking experience like none other — stunning vistas, lush temperate rain forests, long sandy beaches, incredible wildlife sightings, and vast wilderness areas.

Although Belize is a small country, it makes up for its lack of size with its incredibly diverse landscape including the vast mountains, waterfalls, jungles, rain forests, beaches, wetlands, and Savannah.

This kayak trip splits time between two very distinctive Alaskan habitats, both encompassed within the vast Tongass Rainforest, the largest temperate rain forest in the world.

Under a glaring sun, the player wanders through ruined cities that have become vast exotic rain forests, and the game is lit to make everything look almost magical.

It's a challenge sustaining this kind of awareness, similar to that of Brazil engaging its southern urban residents with its vast Amazon rain forest.

While most of the vast carpet of rain forest cloaking the Amazon River basin remains intact, the forest is looking increasingly tattered in places where road networks intrude.

But an unregulated biofuels boom in Brazil could mean bust for the Amazon rain forest and a vast savanna ecosystem known as the Cerrado, environmentalists warn.

Ideally, by spending some time in a rain forest — those vast, uncomfortable, alarming, and beautiful environments that so quickly knock our preconceptions aside.

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.

Large amounts of carbon are currently locked in the vast biomass of the tropical rain forests, and so kept out of the atmosphere.

His death comes at a time of increasing alarm over Brazil's development policy in the Amazon, which has set off a scramble for land by speculators and ranchers, who destroy vast stretches of rain forest every year.

The problem in the 1980s was that American power plants were sending up vast clouds of sulfur dioxide, which was falling back to earth in the form of acid rain, damaging lakes, forests and buildings across eastern Canada and the United States.