With just 0.2% of the earth's land surface, it hosts 18% of its bird species.
The earth-shattering news is that the average land surface temperature of the planet is higher than it was 200 years ago.
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Drylands, which range from "dry sub-humid" to "hyper-arid" regions, make up more than 40 percent of the world's land surface and are home to two billion people.
Kakadu is just one, albeit one of the biggest, of Australia's 516 national parks and 2, 700 designated conservation areas that together cover about 7.5% of the continent's land surface.
With other rainforest regions such as the Amazon also being depleted rapidly -- the percentage of the earth's land surface covered by rainforest is estimated to have slipped from 14 percent to around six percent -- the sudden disappearance of millions of hectares of the earth's natural defenses against climate change is likely to have consequences far beyond local communities and wildlife.
However, there are some concerns that the fuel used in the probe, which is toxic, will land on the surface.
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They then used that proxy data, which they dubbed the Paleo Index (PI) and compared it to the merged land-ocean surface temperature (MLOST) records developed by the National Climactic Data Center.
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Such differences result from various assumptions regarding unknowns such as changing urbanization and other land use influences that contaminate surface temperature recordings.
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And data collected at the surface, whether land or sea, seem to tell a different story from those taken at altitude by weather balloons.
NASA's Tom Rivellini joins us to discuss "seven minutes of terror, " and what it takes to land a rover on the surface of Mars.
Plastic matting is to be installed over the grass surface of the Land's End runway to allow flights to resume between the Isles of Scilly.
The basin is a large depression in the surface of the land spanning from Minnesota to New York state and including the five Great Lakes: Michigan, Huron, Erie, Superior and Ontario.
The road petered out in an area with little valleys, ridges, hills, and peaks, but it was not the contours of the land that created the uneven surface but, rather, the layers of things that had been thrown away: everything that the consumerist city had used up and expelled so that it could immediately enjoy the pleasure of handling new things had ended up in this unprepossessing neighborhood.
The air bags cushioned the precious rovers that didn't so much land as bounce down to the surface.
At one point he speculates about frac fluid migrating up from 2 miles below the surface to ruin the land.
The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.
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The scientists saw that, if these flower-discs were set at a tricky upright angle, the bees much preferred to land on the ones with conical surface cells.
But this is an error of taste, not a fatal mistake, and though it's undeniably irritating, it fails to diminish the play's impact, just as Mr. Albee's occasional lapses into preachiness ("We are not talking about the rights we pretend we give ourselves in this bewildered land of ours") are mere surface flaws.
Land use changes matter because different types of surface strongly affect the atmospheric distribution of the Sun's energy.
Flowing hazardous chemicals(fracking fluid) poisoning land throughout how many miles of ground and surface water from the Gas Well Site?
The DDG 1000 is a multimission surface ship designed to provide advanced land attack capability and contribute to military dominance in the shallow coastal waters known as the littorals.
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Costs include employing bailiffs and removal equipment, keeping items in safe storage and "scraping off" hard materials laid down as road surface in order to restore the land to its original state.
He said the costs would include employing bailiffs and removal equipment, keeping items in safe storage and "scraping off" hard materials laid down as road surface in order to restore the land to its original state.
If correct, this means any debris that survived to the surface probably went into water and not on land.
"The areas of the caves investigated are closer to the surface than first thought which means that the land is more unstable than previously thought, " she said.
The surface of the inland waterway sits at the lowest land point on the planet, more than 400m below sea level.
Nicknamed "The Builder Prince" he began to transform Monaco as early as the 1950s, reclaiming land that added 20% growth to the principality's surface area, encouraging large construction projects and supported economic diversification.
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It was specifically designed to crash-land on the Moon after capturing a series of images of the lunar surface on its approach.
Since oceans cover two-thirds of the Earth's surface, it's more likely debris will hit water than land.
Because it doesn't stir up the soil, it lets the land keep its stored carbon and even adds some, because those corn stalks on the surface gradually become part of the soil.
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