Rising temperatures have also resulted in vegetation sprouting up in unexpected places along the tundra.
The airboat became stuck in vegetation and couldn't be turned around.
What my colleagues and I are discovering from our own work in Alaskan tundra is that this shift in vegetation cover has implications -- some good, some bad -- for the animals that depend on it for food and shelter.
Some nest in patches of tall vegetation and may stand to benefit from the expanding taller shag, but those that nest in short vegetation may not be able to adapt.
Terry, who was competing in the grueling rally for the first time, was found in dense vegetation, 15 meters from his bike.
The islands close to the mainland are covered in lush vegetation and get rockier and more barren the farther you travel out.
The hillside was once covered in rich vegetation but trees had been felled over time to make room for urbanization and small-scale agriculture.
During the dinosaurs' time on Earth, "the atmosphere became charged with methane, which finally damaged the ozone layer and brought about great changes in the vegetation, " it added.
Cleanup crews could easily trample the vegetation in trying to remove the oil.
The land will be grazed by commercial animals, including Norfolk Horn sheep and Suffolk red poll cattle, who'll keep the vegetation in check.
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Better results were achieved in classrooms with vegetation, the study said.
Instead they gather vegetation in haystacks to dry for winter forage.
Peat is formed from decayed vegetation in bogs, moors or swamps.
They keep the vegetation low in the winter when the sheep are brought down to lower levels, and they provide food for birds like choughs.
Even what the cows eat is well documented, with no silage, ever, a diet consisting primarily of vegetation grown in the same carefully delineated Parmigiano-Reggiano region.
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The United Nations recently raised concerns regarding the health and climatic impacts of particles emitted by vegetation fires in regions subject to land use changes and human driven deforestation such as South-East Asia, where they are responsible for 10, 800 premature deaths per year.
Mud and vegetation was trapped in the top of her long boots, the court heard.
Growing flocks of sheep have also done their bit in stripping the mountains of vegetation.
Fields of bright green vegetation sway lazily in the flow, while underwater springs kick up miniature plumes of sand.
It will also help them forecast changes in the tundra's vegetation.
On the road outside, a platoon of Thai soldiers patrolled carefully, keeping a lookout for ambushes, prodding gingerly in the thick, tropical vegetation for possible bombs.
For many of these regions, basic information required distinguishes between natural and anthropogenic sources of metals in waters, soils and vegetation is sparse or completely lacking.
With such approach, natural anomalies can be assessed in relation to those caused by mining and related industrial activity, taking into account the geology, topography, climate, vegetation and hydrology in different regions of Africa.
Contractors employed by North Somerset Council, which owns the line, have moved in to start cutting back the vegetation.
Volunteers and the owners of the castle, the Cawdor family, cleared weeds and other vegetation from around Rait in 2010.
Biologists scrambling to make decisions about the habitat in southern California found neither a vegetation map nor any demographic data on the gnatcatcher.
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Meanwhile, another fire broke out on the other side of the urban area Friday, but that event was described as a vegetation fire, occurring in the suburb of Glendale, the Los Angeles Fire Department said on its Twitter account.
As Africa is slowly becoming a desert, all the other cold parts of the world like Russia, Scandinavia, Alaska, Greenland and Antarctica are becoming warmer and will become friendlier places to live in and there will be more vegetation.
His private villa on the outskirts of the city is in a poor state and his once prestigious mansion in his hometown of Arthington, some 40km (25 miles) west of Monrovia, is in ruins and covered by overgrown vegetation, our correspondent says.
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