Sentence examples for forest burning from inspiring English sources

"It's mainly slash and burn agriculture in Madagascar... which means chopping down a bit of forest, burning the trees, planting rice on the fertile soil.

Milpa cultivation involving cutting an area of forest, burning, and planting crops has existed in the Yucatán Peninsula for more than three millennia.

"The establishment of the national forests in California, beginning as early as 1891, thus found forest burning an established practice.

Several decades later, Show and Kotok (1924) recorded effects of pursuing total fire exclusion: "The establishment of the national forests in California, beginning as early as 1891, thus found forest burning an established practice.

A wildfire broke out Sunday afternoon in the Castaic area of the Angeles National Forest, burning about 300 acres and three structures by evening, officials said.

The blaze scorched swaths of forest, burning into the northwest part of Yosemite before it was fully contained in late October.

The lights dimmed and scenes of environmental mayhem unfolded on the screen: Sydney Opera House in flames, ice sheets crashing into the seas, deserts spreading and forests burning.

There is even an echo of the cataclysmic end of the "Ring" in our world of forests burning, glaciers melting and water engulfing the land.

"With all the remaining forests burning, and the corpses of people, livestock and wildlife piling up on every continent," the apocalypse will have arrived.

In dense forests, burning is strongly associated with land-cover changes, while in savannahs the occurrence of (mostly) early fires does not lead to land-cover change.

It's all there, he assured me: evidence of catastrophic flooding unleashed by seismic waves, of pulverized bedrock falling like hail, of forests burning in a worldwide conflagration, of early mammals huddling in their burrows as dinosaurs died aboveground.