Sentences with phrase «vegetation around»

In a speech last year at the Royal Society of London, Ridley presented the evidence on global greening, which is the spread of green vegetation around the world over the past 30 years.

The Chichen Itza ruins are impressive because they have been restored, and they have dramatically uncluttered the vegetation around them.

The exterior of the restaurant looks nondescript and rundown, with overgrown vegetation around the edges of the building, but don't let that deter you from eating there.

The beautiful green vegetation around the Naivasha Simba Lodge along with the lake experience, makes it an excellent rest stop while on safari in Kenya.

After clearing it, the only vegetation around for miles was sugar cane, three trees, and an abundance of lava rock.

The most common places to find flea eggs outdoors include: Dog houses, pet shelters, flower beds, gardens, crawl spaces, dense ground cover, vegetation around structures, feral animal nests, and areas where pets go to escape the sun's heat.

Things get increasingly bizarre as the women, noticing the vegetation around them is mutating in strange, and very colorful

Things get increasingly bizarre as the women, noticing the vegetation around them is mutating in strange, and very colorful — Psychedelic!

The vegetation around Málaga with its palm trees and cactuses on the one hand and its olive, cork and pine trees on the other hand is very versatile and beautiful.

The photographs also provided data on the type and height of vegetation around circle edges as well as in the surrounding matrix.

Over the past two decades, researchers have seen changes in the vegetation around the tundra.

I was pleased upon reading Linda Geddes's piece on changes in vegetation around animal graves (10 April, p 18) to...

They also propose steps for making the tracks safer, including systems to warn of approaching trains, trails to provide escape routes, clearing vegetation around the tracks, and fencing around hot spots.

Fortunately, vegetation around the houses and lodges in Madera Canyon had been thinned in recent years.

«Vegetation on Earth: Stunning satellite imagery depicting vegetation around the world.»

Data from the Visible - Infrared Imager / Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the NASA / NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness, and is sending extraordinary images back to Earth giving us a clearer picture of vegetation around the world.

We are finding, and it is pretty well know by now, that CO2 stored in vegetation around the world represents, and its loss from deforestation and degradation represents, 17 to 20 percent of total CO2 emissions.

For example, the guidelines state that reducing energy consumption could be achieved by exploring grants for energy efficiency improvements as well as by placing vegetation around buildings to lower heating and cooling costs.

Park District officials will plant native trees and vegetation around the building to help clear - cut invasive species dominating the area.

Not exact matches

Considering all of the livestock of both men, the land around Bethel and Ai did not contain enough water and vegetation to feed all the animals.

Large mammals tend to be herbivores, devouring large quantities of vegetation and effectively transporting the associated nutrients around an ecosystem.

The second hypothesis is that the available food resources were limiting and that niche partitioning came into play; in other words, there weren't that many plants to go around so that the species had to share available food sources by specializing on different types of vegetation.

The TOAR database of surface ozone metrics is now publicly available and can be used by scientists and policymakers around the world to quantify the impacts of ozone on human health and vegetation.

«They indirectly reflect what you have around you [at the time of the flood]-- whether you've got vegetation cover and what type it is, for instance.»

With the help of a graduate student, Williams will look for a kind of mammoth proxy: sporormiella, a fungus that lives in the dung of large herbivores, and grains of ancient pollen that can reveal what kind of vegetation once grew around the lake.

Princeton University researchers report in the journal Science that termites slow the spread of deserts into drylands by providing a moist refuge for vegetation on and around their mounds.

«The vegetation on and around termite mounds persists longer and declines slower,» she said.

With the data they simulated 130 years of growth following the Yellowstone Fires using a computer model calibrated to the study area and used by forest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation Simulator.

The peccaries root around in the vegetation, creating mud wallows, and disturbing the sensitive natural springs that Emas is well known for.»

Global emissions of these non-methane hydrocarbons from vegetation and human activities are estimated at around 1.3 billion tonnes per year.

When Johnson and her students started to poke around through the dense vegetation swathing Mole Hill, the very texture of the volcanic rock appeared unusual.

Every layer suggested a change in vegetation as well as moisture, the kinds of other animals that were around, and the survival challenges faced by our ancient predecessors.

Implementing locally appropriate vegetation management strategies around structures and neighborhoods;

Hot surfaces warm the air around them, so by cooling the surface, the vegetation also affects air temperatures.

Evolution, our coping strategy Presented with fragmented vegetation and greater distances between sources of food may have led to the evolution of human bipedalism — walking upright on two legs — around six million years ago.

(a) A trumpet - shaped ant tower built around emerging vegetation in the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp in Louisiana.

It is widely known that the terrestrial biosphere (the collective term for all the world's land vegetation, soil, etc.) is an important factor in mitigating climate change, as it absorbs around 20 % of all fossil fuel CO2 emissions.

«Biochar is found in soils around the world as a result of vegetation fires and historic soil management practices,» reports the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), a trade group representing the world's burgeoning biochar industry.

With the aid of global Earth observations and data - driven models, the researchers show that on average, extreme events prevent the uptake of around 3 petagrams carbon per year by the vegetation.

KEA estimated that LGM vegetation forcing was around -1.1 + / -0.6 W / m2 (because of the loss of trees in polar latitudes, replacement of forests by savannah etc.), and if that was similar to the SEA modelled impact, their Charney sensitivity would be closer to 2ºC (down from 2.3 ºC).

Most people eating Primal are eating tons of vegetation and getting around 100 - 150 grams of carbs from that vegetation, which is plenty to stay insulin sensitive.

Lovely pond with ducks and water vegetation... lovely garden as well... the perfect place to save money as there are no shopping facilities around!!

He also becomes involved with another bizarre loner, Joni (Odeya Rush, «Curb Your Enthusiasm» TV series), who has a birthmark instead of vegetation and drags giant tree limbs around on her bicycle.

Brazil has around 5millions km ² native vegetation and loses thousands of kilometers of vegetation per year because of the cutting of trees and fires.

Some planning strategies were suggested by the principal investigator during discussions with the teacher; for example, having students collect vegetation data around the school ground, embedding hypothesis - posing questions in lessons, and comparing weather and climate data.

Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents.

If she is missing from an outside pen, carefully search loose soil, around and under rocks and vegetation, as she may have burrowed down ---- especially if it's cold outside.

Keep vegetation away from the fence and remove piles of boards or rocks around the home.

When it is around water, it grows very quickly and tends to take over agricultural lands, landscaped properties, and other areas where the vegetation has been cut down or uprooted.

Set in low rise spacious buildings located around the resort, each room or suite has either a balcony or terrace overlooking one of the swimming pools or lush vegetation.