After millions of years, it was pushed up into the air to form land and mountains.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Then they began to die. In some of the gold centers, big mining companies bought up all the land from those who first claimed it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

They would put up fences and plow up the land to plant crops.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

After they land,meteorites can pick up small organisms and chemicals from Earth's environment.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

They signed treaties with the government giving up ninety percent of their land.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

White landowners broke up their big farms into smaller pieces of land.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Then it is shaped to build up the land.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

And the world's insatiable appetite is depleting the planet's fisheries and using up land and fresh water at an alarming rate.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Rivers are drying up, grazing land for cattle is scarce, and the dry soil is hard to farm.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Now,what Mr.Netanyahu is doing is really eating up the land that is supposed to be the Palestinian state with more settlements, with more malls, with more confiscation of land."

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

On a 9.6-hectare tract of land . on the Texas coast south of Houston, a start-up company from Florida called Algenol, in partnership with the Dow Chemical company, plans to build more than 3,000 bioreactors,starting next year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

"You have seen massive evidence of huge social impacts in South America,farmers, up to 90,000 farmers, being displaced from their land in places like Paraguay because of the advent of massive GM intensive mono cultures, urban poverty increasing, food security has decreased all across the southern corner of Latin America dramatically over the last decade,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21