But it cannot disguise the fact that the Dead Sea is also on the way to becoming a man-made environmental disaster zone.
It is a safe haven — a world between the new and the old, city and forest, opaque and transparent, man-made and natural — a purgatory zone.
Territorial data layers, combined with analysis of the statistical database and wildfire simulation have enabled areas of highest vulnerability to be defined with greater precision, especially in sectors associated with the urban wildland interface (defined as the zone where man-made structures meet wildland).
He underscored that unfortunately these days the threat becomes more eminent and important under the impact of natural or man-made crises in the conflict zones, causing significant migration of rural/nomadic people to the neighboring countries that disrupts the animal health control mechanisms by the host governments.
The man-made rockpools in the low tidal zone had higher cover and biomass of marine and terrestrial wrack than the low intertidal zone of the seawalls, and both these and the planted saltmarshes also supported the accumulation of wrack at the mid intertidal elevation.
What is to keep Beijing from announcing an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over its man-made possessions in the South China Sea, therefore threatening free shipping and aviation?
A golf course belongs to what French philosopher Bruno Latour calls "nature/culture," namely that murky modern border zone between organic and man-made, wild and engineered, natural and artificial.
Our results show that invasive L. neglectus populations are a potential problem of global dimensions, and a particular threat for man-made ecosystems in the cold-temperate climate zones that have so far suffered very little from invasive ants.
An excavation damaged zone (EDZ) develops around the man-made opening as a result of reactivation of pre-existing fractures and propagation of wing cracks.
The Jebel Ali port is now the largest man-made harbor in the world and a tax-free zone.
This radical departure occurred twice within a 2-year span, pulling me out of my comfort zone into a place of scant man-made distractions.
