... of the high Andes home to two of the three species of Andean flamingos marks WWF's delivery of a 'crazy, unrealistic pledge' to deliver 100 million hectares of new protected wetlands in a decade...
... , one mammal, and one bird – in and around the Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a 716,000-hectare (1,769,274-acre) protected area that is the Cerrado’s second largest.
The lizard, of the ...
... . A normal dust storm can result in 70 tons of the light black soil being whirled up per hectare per hour. "According to Russian studies, in the past 40 years there have been three to five such dust ...
... square kilometers, twice the area previously thought. As many as 90 percent of these water bodies are one hectare (two acres) or less in area.
Downing's research team published its most recent ...
... estimations made by Scholz and Hasse, we would have to plant a little over one billion (109) hectares of forest in order to bind all of the carbon dioxide produced in a year. This corresponds roughly ...
... in Araba, is about 155 kg of nitrogen per hectare. She also pointed out that dosages of 100 kg or ... a dosage of 140 kg of nitrogen per hectare distributed in three applications achieves the same quality ...
... ), one of the world's rarest lizards. Around 400 of nearly 600 kangaroos at a 200-hectare military site will be killed during the next days with lethal injections after the government ruled out a ...
... a number of places, but for a small region reliable data now exists: At the 305 hectare-study site between Hoyerswerda and Bautzen there are 32-40 otters. The new method has helped us considerably in ...
... 3% of its total forest area, some 13 million hectares per year. The greatest losses were in Latin American and ... ( 7 % over 15 years or about 16 million hectares per year) Africa (9% over 15 years or 4 ...
... carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation in tropical regions," he says.
An estimated 13 million hectares of the world's forested areas – almost exclusively in the tropical regions – are ...
The 40,000-acre (16,000-hectare) wildfire is smoldering inside highly flammable peatland that one firefighter likens to a "giant charcoal briquette."
... working together to extend the Kampong Prak fish sanctuary at Tonle Sap Lake up to 20,000 hectares to include vital otter habitat. The expansion includes large areas of flooded forests where at least ...
... to address major threat to Asian rice production A small insect that has devastated millions of hectares of rice in southern China and Vietnam over the past few years—causing the loss of thousands ...
... Sciences, says tropical forests support more than 60% of all known species. But up to 15 million hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost every year and species are being lost at a rate of up ...
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier.
