Forest fires are burning in the immediate surroundings of Athens again.

The tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

The Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) is developing a series of indicators to monitor the state of the world's wetlands, these indicators taking into consideration the quality of soils around the wetlands.

220 rural dispensaries and 31 health posts in outlying areas

On that basis, the Panel reduced the extent of the peripheral areas and the areas damaged by roadways.

The area surrounding the university is one of the metropolitan districts of Amman and is called the University District.

(l) The forced displacement of populations in the Sudan as a result of the armed conflict, in particular in areas surrounding the oilfields

In particular, the Panel finds that Saudi Arabia has overestimated the intensity of damage in peripheral areas.

Approximately 1,000 Japanese forces serve in and around Iraq.

(e) To improve security in and around the internally displaced persons' camps

Despite progress in the area around Pristina, problems remained in the rural areas.

Cities are hotter than the land around them because they are drier.

The 28 February attack on Logoualé has caused the further displacement of several thousand people in the surrounding areas.

The Panel also found that, while Saudi Arabia's estimate of the extent of the core areas was accurate, Saudi Arabia had overestimated the extent of the peripheral areas and areas damaged by roads.

The latter color names refer to orange and white light respectively, with an intensity that is lower than the light from surrounding areas.

(v) The forced displacement of populations, in particular in areas surrounding the oilfields, and notes the invitation extended by the Government of the Sudan to the Special Rapporteur to visit the oil producing areas

The Galápagos Islands and the surrounding waters represent one of the world s most unusual ecosystems and are rich areas of biodiversity.

At the end, 4 coastal regions and 3 inner regions were named according to their proximity to the four seas surrounding Turkey, and their positions in Anatolia.

I told the warden that I wanted to start a mountain biking club in this place and that basically I wanted to take the kids from here to there.

Iraq states that conditions in the peripheral areas are currently equivalent to or better than those prior to the conflict.

The areas surrounding Albert Road, Palmerston Road and Osborne road comprise numerous bars, restaurants and independent shops.

The university administers 8 public hospitals in the city of Ahvaz, and 20 other hospitals in the surrounding areas, as well as dozens of clinics scattered in the province.

Turkey has become an invaluable asset in the make up of our surrounding regions, and is already changing the status quo in favor of more stability and predictability.

During April, the European Union also successfully exercised its ability to deploy a strategic, over the horizon reserve force and tactical in theatre reserve forces into Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The congestion and urban chaos that is typical in a port area, for example, must be eliminated through better planning.

Displaced civilians living in camps continue to report attacks on them by militias or bandits when they leave the camps' surroundings.

These include inappropriate land use in the areas surrounding the springs, animal wastes and the presence near one spring of a wadi that carries wastewater.

It is stated in the report that operations by the combined MONUC and FARDC forces dispersed militia forces into surrounding areas.

Al Qaida continues to evolve and adapt to the pressures and opportunities of the world around it, and the threat of a significant attack remains real in all areas.

Urban and agricultural frontier expansion have transformed surrounding environments in ways that generate new hazard patterns.

Tea Party activists in exurban America rant and rage against the so called liberal elites of New York, Washington, and Hollywood.

This process is endothermic, meaning that it absorbs thermal energy from its surroundings, which decreases the temperature of the surroundings, further inhibiting the fire.

Most of the university's campuses are in the Kantō region, the vast majority in Tokyo or surrounding areas, though two campuses are as far away from Tokyo as Shizuoka Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture.

On May 21, 2007 the Russian Air Force announced that S 400 would be put on combat duty around Moscow and Central Russia by July 1, 2007.

Anawrahta unified the entire Irrawaddy valley for the first time in history, and placed peripheral regions such as the Shan States and Arakan (Northern Rakhine) under Pagan's suzerainty.

These measures counter the heat island effect caused by an abundance of tarmac and asphalt, which can make urban areas several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas as much as six degrees Celsius during the evening.

The storm surge was not as high under the Causeway as it was near the I 10 Twin Span Bridge, and damage was mostly limited to the turnarounds.

The Government was to ensure that no militias are present in areas surrounding camps for internally displaced persons and was to start immediately the disarmament of the Janjaweed and other armed outlaw groups.

Landing at Smyrna (May 1919) On May 15, 1919, twenty thousand Greek soldiers landed in Smyrna and took control of the city and its surroundings under cover of the Greek, French, and British navies.

The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.

Express their sadness for the losses caused by the floods affecting Romania and Serbia and Montenegro, and support the actions meant to minimize the damages and suffering of the population living around the border.

Kuwait's risk assessment uses low , central , and high values for four input variables (background mortality, population, exposure concentration and concentration response coefficient) to characterize uncertainty.

Environment may also be involved.

This is a blue whale. We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India. You can see them off Kerala.