The five-year project, by a team of several dozen government and academic researchers, has sent two specially equipped airplanes, augmenting the aircraft that routinely track all hurricanes, skimming just above the cresting waves in clear areas between the storms' spiraling canyons of thunderclouds.
Also in clear areas where the storm cell is on the near horizon (within 26 km a strike can occur, and as the storm is so far away, the strike is referred to as clear-air.
Citing research by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, the newspaper reports that more than 10 times as many marine organisms live in the artificial reefs created by the concrete, scrap wood and other debris than in clear areas.
In cleared areas of the damp coastal region are found alder and noncommercial deciduous growth.
Forests still cover most of Acre, but in cleared areas where the geoglyphs are found, dirt roads already cut through some of the earthworks.
"People are scared," he says.Under the agreement with the government that Norway brokered, the LTTE is now free to operate politically in cleared areas.
Its liberation was expected last week when Kurdish peshmerga forces swept into the area, only to be pinned down by a barrage of suicide attacks, buildings filled with homemade bombs, and militants using tunnel networks to reappear in "cleared areas" to launch fresh ambushes.
The forestland soil in these areas is composed of humus and is quickly used in cleared areas.
The cost-effectiveness of restoration actions is lower in remnant and revegetated areas than in cleared areas because of the higher marginal benefits arising from acting in degraded habitats.
Furthermore, the health of trees in cleared areas may be compromised.
