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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
A one-metre sea level rise will displace approximately 7.1 million people in India and about 5764 square kilometres (km) of land area will be lost, along with 4200 km of roads. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the coral atolls of the Lakshadweep archipelago are most vulnerable. West Bengal and Maharashtra face real danger, as also ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Paani Laupepa told BBC News Online, assistant secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, Tuvalu. Climate change has already become a reality for Tuvaluans. A group of nine islands with a total land area of 26 square kilometres, Tuvalu is expected to be the first to be erased from the surface of the Earth due to rising tides. " ...
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Freshwater Website: Groundwater (What is an aquifer?)
Aquifers come in all sizes. They may be small, only a few hectares in area, or very large, underlying thousands of square kilometres of the earth's surface. They may be only a few metres thick, or they may measure hundreds of metres from top to bottom ...
www.ec.gc.ca

Science and the Environment Bulletin: Air Collection
Sudbury, Ontario. Sulphur dioxide emissions from local smelters acidified an estimated 7 000 lakes in a zone of about 17 000 square kilometres... The Leader of the Pack Motorcycles make up less than two per cent of registered motor vehicles and account for under ...
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UNISDR Calendar 2006
At the current rate of deforestation, 1,500 square kilometres (600 square miles) are burned annually by landless peasants to grow rice and cassava for subsistence. This deforestation means the island could become completely devoid of forest cover by the year 2020. In addition to value ...
www.entico.com

Expert-Eyes: the Great Whale Project
Quebec and emptying into the Hudson Bay. There were also plans to divert the nearby Little Whale River and the Nastapoca River to the Great Whale. The proposed reservoirs would have covered 3391 square kilometres, transforming 1667 square kilometres of land environment and 1724 km of aquatic environment (lakes and rivers). The three underground generating ...
www.expert-eyes.org

Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Falkland Islands
Falklands. The results are substantial, considering that this country of 12,200 square kilometres (4,700 square miles), with land in 255 10km grid squares, has a small permanent human population of only about 2,200. The wealth of information will be an essential reference for studies associated with offshore oil exploration ...
www.falklandsconservation.com

Shrinking Forests
Britain by 0.5% and in western Europe by 0.6 per cent. A great conifer forest used to cover 180,000 square kilometres (an area bigger than England and Wales combined) from Alaska to northern California. 60% of the Canadian area has been logged. Since 1945 almost half of the world’s rainforests have disappeared; 10% of tropical forests were ...
www.focusonforests.org

Daintree Rainforest - Cairns, Tropical Far North Queensland, Australia - Daintree Rainforest
Mother Nature in the world. It is home to the largest range of plants and animals on earth, and all are found within the largest chunk of rainforest in Australia - an area spanning approximately 1200 square kilometres. This World Heritage Listed area contains the highest number of plant and animal species that are rare, or threatened with extinction ...
daintreerainforest.com

Environment Agency - Anglian Region
Bartlett & Sons (Airdrie)... Read more Anglian Region Information The Anglian Region covers more than 27,000 square kilometres, from the Thames Estuary in the south to Humber Estuary in the North, and from the ... flat, low lying land, a quarter of which is below sea level and more than 860 kilometres of coastline. East Anglia is 34 percent drier, 6 percent hotter and 6 percent sunnier than England ...
www.environment-agency.gov.uk