Sentence examples for swathe of forest from inspiring English sources
But the Sentinel would also expect to find about 50% of the rocks down to a diameter of 30m - the sort of object that in 1908 laid waste to a vast swathe of forest at Tunguska in Siberia.
Without proper implementation of the forest law, vast swathes of forest will be lost in the coming decades.
But that is only because people chopped down swathes of forest in Europe, China and India for croplands and pastures, Dr. Ruddiman said.
A private company might want to cut down swathes of forest to grow crops for biofuel, disregarding the long-term environmental impact.
Improved weather conditions today stabilized the fire that has destroyed huge swathes of forest and residences here and threatened a major nuclear weapons laboratory.
That deal will help prevent further deforestation, and restore swathes of forest now degraded by the encroachment of loggers and plantations.
The route from Puerto Montt to Temuco takes in glowering volcanoes, immense lakes, snow-capped mountains, swathes of forest and unspoilt villages.
The bank has called in accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers and British forest management company Proforest to oversee a review of its activities, following an exposé of its connections to companies involved in clearing swathes of forest for lucrative palm oil plantations.
Merbau wood, mostly prevalent in Papua's virgin forests, has been illegally logged and shipped to China since the late 1990's, stripping large swathes of forest in the Indonesian province on the western side of the island of New Guinea.
I climbed to the top of the Bali Tower – a four-storey structure above the lobby, built from five 33-metre logs that soar above the treeline – and I gazed out over the swathes of forest.
Massive swathes of forest are cut down in South America and South-east Asia to make way for plantations for these industries – but lots of people in the UK still don't realise it's our lifestyles and high biofuel targets that are causing the problem".
