Nonetheless, at this time, the polar region would have been covered in forest.
The researchers, who report their findings in a Sept. 19 paper in the journal PLoS ONE, say the site of the Panda pipe was covered with a forest of Metasequoia, similar to today's dawn redwoods, during the early Eocene.
About the situation of water sources in the city, the actor reminded us that at zona Sul, where most foreign delegations are staying, there are serious environmental issues such as the occupation of hills once covered by native forest and the ejection of sewerage onto the beaches and some waterways.
The lush pine forest that covered every inch of these pristine mountains had been cleared here.
Bending under the weight of the packs, sweating, they climbed steadily in the pine forest that covered the mountainside.
Copacabana and Ipanema brought fame to Rio in the 20th Century for golden sands and the lush, forest-covered mountains that framed them.
The authority's leader said on Monday he did not want the county to be covered by a "forest" of wind turbines.
The Garajonay National Park is an extremely rare example of the humid sub-tropical forest that covered most of Europe before the arrival of man.
Curious, she travels out of Lagos to corners of the country many Nigerians never see: to the Transwonderland Amusement Park, to the beauty of the eastern mountains and to the northern city of Kano with its modestly covered women and its forest of ancient minarets.
That roof shelters an enormous building whose southerly exposures are entirely covered in windows, the better to take advantage of forest views.
Instead of studying, say, a forest, the team looked at moss-covered rocks.
The landscape is an intricate patchwork quilt of woodland, forest, parkland and wetland, with 30% covered with lakes and waterways.
By 2015 there will be a complete network of protected areas on at least 12% of the area covered by the Plan Nord as well as 12% of the area of the boreal forest blanket will be dedicated to the creation of the protected area.
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Lying in your tent, listening to the rustles and chirps of the forest, you can almost hear an old bull elephants whishing his way between the moss-covered trunks and the woodcutters rising early for a campfire breakfast of sweet potatoes and coffee.
The blizzard died down, leaving the mountains as randomly covered with snow as if a blind woman had thrown a sheet over them, the upper branches of the forest pines limed, creaking, swollen with the fall.
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