Developers are clearing an average of 50 acres of tree-covered land per day, which amounts to an area larger than Manhattan each year.
Since 1895, wrote Tim Worstall for Forbes, only the extraordinary droughts of the 1930s and 1950s have covered more land area than the current drought.
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As soon as a helicopter goes beyond the 80-mile zone covered by land-based radar, its signal is picked up by the offshore platforms, with the data then returned to the airport.
Until a few years ago, it used to be dumped in landfills, but it is tricky to find much space on an island where more than 70% of the land is covered by mountains.
With other rainforest regions such as the Amazon also being depleted rapidly -- the percentage of the earth's land surface covered by rainforest is estimated to have slipped from 14 percent to around six percent -- the sudden disappearance of millions of hectares of the earth's natural defenses against climate change is likely to have consequences far beyond local communities and wildlife.
In relation to wind farms, the proposals include strengthening environmental protection in the 31% of Scotland covered by the wildest and most scenic land, including no wind farms in the 19% of Scotland covered by National Parks and National Scenic Areas.
The amount of land that was covered by the floods?
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The land is heavily covered with mature Douglas firs and maple trees, and rolls across the base of a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula, with a total onsite elevation change of nearly 600 feet, again huge by golf course standards.
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One reason the sea (unlike the land) is not covered with plants is that it lacks crucial nutrients iron, in particular.
Figures released on Thursday by the Land Registry, which covered prices in June, found that prices over the previous year had varied significantly in different regions of England and Wales.
It is the Ibiza the ancient Greeks used to call the 'pine-covered island', a fertile land where almost every patch of soil is filled with trees bearing different fruits - figs, quinces, lemons, carob seeds and almonds - so that the surrounding air is perfumed with their ripening scent.
Even today more than 80 per cent of arable land on the island is covered by cane fields.
The river has been open to the public as a navigable waterway for decades, though it was encased by private land owned by timber companies and covered by hunting club leases and posted against trespassing.
Current estimates suggest that 43 % of the total land area in the Gambia is still covered by forests, 78 % of which are severely degraded.
Traditionally the Moken are huntergatherers, spending much of the year fishing from covered boats known as kabangs, only returning to land to collect fresh water or seek refuge from seasonal monsoons.
Among other provisions, the ECPA stipulated that wireless voice communications were covered under the Fourth Amendment to the same degree as land-line communications.
In the 28 land deals totalling 2.64 million ha covered in a survey carried out last year by Norwegian People Aid1 in what is today largely South Sudan, there were no land sales with transfer of full ownership rights but rather long-term leases of between 30 and 60 years.
It is also a windswept, unwelcoming crumb of land, floating in open ocean far from anywhere and covered with razor-sharp limestone and petrified coral.
Here, plots of land where gutted homes and shops once stood are empty, covered by a thin blanket of snow.
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But most of the land at the winery was either shaded by California live oak trees or covered with extensively planted gardens.
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