airstrips

Infrastructure such as airstrips, roads (Fig. 15.18), and docks can be damaged by climate change.

Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009

There are small airstrips within the plantations or nearby roads where the narco planes land and the cocaine is shipped near the ports, sometimes inside the palm oil containers.

Mónica Villamizar: Drug Traffickers' Paradise Mónica Villamizar 2011

The best all-weather airstrips were made of bithess, a locally made burlap soaked in tar that made it both waterproof and durable, but even those were uncertain in heavy rains.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

They reasoned that by building fake airstrips and control towers out of sticks and coconuts, wearing fake G.I. uniforms and waving semaphore flags, they could induce the sky gods to deliver goods to them also.

Think Progress » Coburn: Blocking Unemployment Benefits Is Fine Because It Only Affects A ‘Small Amount Of People’ 2010

These were islanders living in villages without airstrips, internet connections, tv, or anything to connect them regularly to the more cosmopolitan parts of the country.

Matthew Yglesias » The New World 2009

By 2001 95% of the Park was in the hands of militia gangs subsidized by the trade in coltan, with 15 airstrips and up to 15,000 peasant miners and the bushmeat hunters supplying them.

Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo 2009

Mind you, I've been in the bush planes in Alaska, landed on jungle airstrips in Bolivia (then went upriver in dugout canoes to fish for dorado ... please do check out the July issue of Field & Stream magazine to see that feature story), and been bit, scratched and all that.

Enough with the "Extreme" Fishing Already! 2009

Mr. Corredor was also one of FARC's major arms dealers: He provided "AK-47 and AR-15 assault type weapons, and ammunition" to the Colombian guerilla group in exchange for cocaine, which was flown from airstrips in Colombia and Venezuela, according to Mr. Corredor's 2006 indictment in district court in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Losing Big Drug Catch José de Córdoba 2011

Air strikes have also targeted airstrips that could be used for aid delivery.

Human Rights Watch: Sudan: Southern Kordofan Civilians Tell of Air Strike Horror Human Rights Watch 2011

The plan, which has received bi-partisan support, would sell underused pieces of government property including islands and airstrips in an attempt to raise revenue to help tackle the federal government's growing budget deficit, according to The New York Times.

White House Garage Sale? Obama Plan Proposes Selling Underused Property 2011