Sentence examples for farmlands from inspiring English sources

Bushfires are at their most perilous in the southern state of Victoria during the high summer months of January and February, when the vast forests and farmlands are dry and stretch out in wait, over thousands of kilometres, for the inevitable lightning showers and wind storms.

The rolling farmlands that encircle Ipswich are destined to become as synonymous with tragedy as Saddleworth Moor.

Freshwater running off from well-fertilised farmlands, he says, caused a fivefold rise in nitrogen levels in the bay.

At the same time, dwindling farmlands and, especially in China, urbanisation are curbing supply.Yet Malthusian doom is highly improbable.

Then he started buying up properties in the mostly empty farmlands west of Sydney—hence "Westfield"—and soon moved into better locations.

Back then, Oregon adopted "urban-growth boundaries" (UGBs) to preserve the farmlands that were then the mainstay of Oregon's economy.

Far more have suffered loss of their livelihoods, with farmlands clogged by Israeli cluster bomblets and businesses bankrupted by the collapse of tourism.

After the ballot measure, it was decided that construction should begin not in the two population centres but in the vast and flat farmlands of the Central Valley, where building is much easier.

Faster loss of species is highly likely in many ecosystems as a result of warming; greatly expanding farmlands will make this worse.

The government of Laos has repeatedly claimed it would heed the strong objections lodged by Cambodia and Vietnam, who fear that the dam's side effects could decimate fisheries and reduce the flow of sediment needed by farmlands downriver.There was a current of déjà vu swirling around Phnom Penh this month.

But Bill Kruczynski, of America's Environmental Protection Agency, is convinced that nitrogen from farmlands is not the chief problem.