Few places on Earth are as untouched as the "Crown of the Continent" — a 10-million-acre expanse of mountains, valleys and prairies in Montana and Canada.Read More...
And it's a good thing, the report says—despite the health risks associated with the use of raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland.
... trends reported in the study:
Texas now has about 142 million acres of private farms, ranches and forests, ... 140 percent to an average of $1,196 per acre, though much higher values are found near ...
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.
... than many millions of poor farmers."
The United Nations estimates that some 13 million hectares (33 million acres) of tropical forest are destroyed each year; but these numbers mask a transition ...
... gas blocks stretch over 688,000 km2 (170 million acres), a vast area, nearly the size of Texas. ... vast Peruvian Amazon (~490,000 km2 or ~121 million acres), an area much larger than California. All but ...
... a reported 1.7 × 109 m3 per year (or 1.5 million acre-feet) of surface water to the area. In addition, the pumping of ground water has dropped the water table 90 meters and connected ...
With more than 3 million acres of wheat in north Texas, 50 percent or more of which is grazed by 1 to 2 million head of cattle, it is important to look at tillage practices and their ...
With more than 3 million acres of wheat in north Texas, 50 percent or more of which is grazed by 1 to 2 million head of cattle, it is important to look at tillage practices and their ...
... study estimates that 765 grizzly bears make their home in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, a 7.8 million acre area in northwest Montana stretching from north of Missoula ...
... wildfires in October 2003 that burned nearly three-quarters of a million acres and destroyed approximately 5,000 buildings.
According to study findings, public health officials need to ...
... to balance human recreation with the protection of wildlife.
"With more than 2.2 million acres of green space on U.S. golf courses, there is great potential for golf courses to serve as ...
... the same for the June 2008 Iowa City flood that killed three people and damaged 2 million acres of farmland. They found that they could track the ebb and flow of that flood over ...
... in some cases – and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that threaten more than 20 million acres of native grasslands in California. The findings run contrary to what had been predicted by ...
The Interior Department announced a controversial decision Wednesday to double the rate of logging on 2.6 million acres of federally owned forests in southwestern Oregon.
