On some estimates, an area of cultivable land the size of France, Germany, Italy and Britain combined will be ruined.
Kaufman's book is a marvel of concision, with a handy color-coding system (red for "medium-size land birds") and a one-page index on the back page.
Once, the wealth of a nation was defined by the expanse of its land, the size of its population or the strength of its army, the abundance of its natural resources.
"The size of land required for a plant will be decided by the government, " Chatterjee says.
To match that output using wind energy, you'd need a land area nearly the size of Rhode Island.
It's been 140 years since the Homestead Act sent waves of settlers across the Great Plains, staking claim to parcels of land 160 acres in size.
Just by math, in a stochastic system with a stable mean, a land area of this size somewhere should have a 100-year high month about five times a year!
In 2006-10 across China they sold land-use rights to over 22, 000km2 of land, an area the size of New Jersey.
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Rather than just buying unconnected postage-stamp-size plots of land, McCormick's group is acquiring entire ecosystems, making concessions to development along the way.
It said it had used the government's own data to identify "land equivalent to twice the size of Leicester that could be built on".
It increases state control over the economy, limits the size of big land holdings and redistributes revenues from the important gas fields in the eastern lowlands to poorer parts of the nation.
Landowners receive shares in proportion to the size of their land, with some percentage deducted for the the number of households present on the site or degree of land encumbrance.
If the same techniques were applied across the world, the size of the oceanic carbon sink, and its variation year by year, would be known considerably better than the size of the land sink.
Any monies from sold off land will be reinvested to purchase further land according to Elin Jones AM as she confirmed that there would be no reduction in size and scale of the total land owned.
More specifically, imagine the simplest case of a population of a constant size - say a million (the approximate size of the Holy Land at the time of Jesus).
Despite the small size and steepness of the land, the couple had no trouble visualizing a house there.
Typically, capital costs will expand with distance from land and water depth and contract as the size of a project increases.
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Hazardous-waste facilities have to go somewhere, and buying 976 acres (the size of Arrowhead) of vacant land is easier and cheaper in rural Alabama than it would be in a tony district of Birmingham.
Australians are all too aware that the population of South-East Asia's biggest country exceeds theirs by 11 times, and is packed into an archipelago a quarter of the size of Australia's sprawling land mass.
The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.
Despite their size, elephants negotiate narrow paths no Land Rover ever could.
The company also said it was planning to increase the size of its air passenger terminal at Land's End, and that a new control tower would make flights less weather-dependent.
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Barely 5ft 9ins and less than 13 stone, he's a midget in a land of giants, but what he lacks in size he more than makes up for with mouth, a constant chatterbox on and off the field, fired by a perceived sense of injustice at the way his country has been treated by the rugby elite.
Buy cheap land on city fringe, build cheap, superstore-size warehouses, stock dimly lit caverns with pallets full of products in bulk.
XCOR's Lynx, roughly the size of a small airplane, will take off and land on a runway and propel itself with liquid-fuel engines.
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"Size of Wales" will continue operating to keep the land secure and also educate people in Wales about their impact on tropical forests.
The community dates back about a century, a response to land shortages in El Salvador - a country about a fifth the size of Honduras, but with a much larger population at that time.
The previously unnamed territory is nearly twice the size of the United Kingdom and about a third of the whole land mass of the British Antarctic Territory, Hague said.
China is projected to have 100 cities of this size in the coming years and in many, there are disputes over land.
Forty minutes later we land in Queenstown for a hot shower, a real meal and a king-size bed at a very nice hotel.
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