The first phase of the trial, which was expected to last three months under Judge Carl J. Barbier of Federal District Court in New Orleans, will determine whether BP or its contractors were "grossly negligent" in causing the accident, which killed 11 workers and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches from Louisiana to Florida.
In its headlong rush for industrialisation it has grossly poisoned its own air, soil, rivers and people, loading itself with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of environmental clean-up costs for the future – if ever it cares to undertake it.
Radiocarbon dates, when carried out on soil organic matter, grossly overestimate the burial time of the micropodzols because the organic material in the micropodzols is a mix of geogenic particles and pedogenic carbon.
Hopes that large amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide could be buried in soils appear to be grossly misplaced, with new research finding that the ground will soak up far less carbon over the coming century than previously thought.
I have traveled extensively in South America, Africa and Asia, and each time I climb into a car on foreign soil, I am struck by how grossly different vehicle safety standards are across the globe -- particularly in third-world countries.
However, Tran et al. [14] suggested that this has been grossly under-estimated and that Melaleuca cajuputi forests on peatland soils in Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia are likely to have a high potential for carbon sequestration.
However, Tran et al. [ 14] suggested that this has been grossly under-estimated and that Melaleuca cajuputi forests on peatland soils in Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia are likely to have a high potential for carbon sequestration.
When compared to AVIRIS, the Landsat classification grossly overestimated cover by dry conifer and ash classes and severely underestimated soil and green vegetation cover.
The nation is grossly overpopulated and in environmental chaos, with agriculture driven to deforested slopes too steep to hold soil, rivers that run in new channels daily, slums covering agricultural land, no forests, no fisheries, a shortage of potable water and a dependence on international aid for food.
