... by 2050, hotter conditions, coupled with shifting rainfall patterns, could make anywhere from 500,000 to one million square kilometers of marginal African farmland no longer able to ...
... S. government began keeping records of its decline. All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before--a loss equal ...
... in the world, covering an area of 4.2 million square kilometers, twice the area previously thought. As many as 90 percent of these water bodies are one hectare (two acres) or less ...
... pilot study in 2004, research began in 2006 in a 3,000-square-kilometer (equivalent to 300,000 soccer fields) area in the western portion of Emas National Park and surrounding farms ...
... distinctions that to your eyes look the same,” Middleton says.
Satellite imagery covering more than 30,000 square kilometers will help Middleton identify different plant species, ...
... map reveals that between 3.5 and 4.5 million square kilometers of vegetation burns on an annual basis. This is an area larger than the country of India that is burnt every year. The ...
There are roughly 42 million square kilometers of forest on Earth, a swath that covers almost a third of the land surface, and those wooded environments play a key role in both mitigating and ...
... Ice Shelf has experienced further break-up with an area of about 160 square kilometers breaking off from May 30-31, 2008. ESA's Envisat satellite captured the event -- the first ...
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The researchers estimate that globally up to 4.7 million square kilometers (approximately 1.8 million square miles) of abandoned lands could be available for growing energy crops. The ...
... , glassy rock fragments spread out over a 10 square kilometer (4 square mile) area around a ... 's tectonic plates. Submerged under several kilometers of cold water, the volcanism of mid-ocean ridges ...
... and one tower are available to measure sea surface winds within a competition area of approximately 10 square kilometers.
Liu and his lidar group, composed of research ...
... is blamed for setting off the fires, including a massive blaze that has destroyed around 42 square miles (110 square kilometers) of forestland, along with 16 homes, and has ...
... he adds, cover at least a million square kilometers (390,000 square miles), or big enough to engulf ... the new hemisphere using moderate resolution images of 5 kilometers [3 miles] per pixel," he says. ...
... viewed by scientists as a large space rock that pierced through the atmosphere of Siberia, then detonated to flatten some 2,000 square kilometers of trees.
... use planning was a mega rice project, funded primarily by Indonesia's reforestation fund, which eliminated 10,000 square kilometers of peat swamp forest and killed an estimated 15,000 ...
