Sentences with phrase «american rain forest»

A long hallway separated the two primary elements of Lothar Baumgarten's recent show at Marian Goodman, suggesting the distance between the locales of the projects — one focused on the South American rain forest, the other on the Hudson River Valley north of New York City — as well as the contrast in approaches (soundless imagery for the former, imageless sound for the latter) to what turned out to be congruent conceptual goals, namely an investigation of how «knowledge» of a given place is constructed.

These unique and literally primeval forest areas hint at incomprehensible dimensions of the former Central American rain forest must have been.

The number of travel frontiers is dwindling quicker than you can say «eight days in a collapsible canoe in the South American rain forest,» yet the Tunisian desert fulfills the promise of a pioneer experience.

That's the one thing that was really cool about the original was that Arnold seemed to have to do everything possible to beat the Predator and even in the end he didn't really beat him, not if you count nuking 30 acres of Central American rain forest.

That would tell in brief the glorious result of six long days of sweat and strain in a Central American rain forest.

If we who believe are correct, and one must accept Christ to be rewarded in eternity while those who reject Him will be punished for eternity ------- What if I'm a human being (creation of God) born into a primitive tribe that lives in the South American rain forest?

About 150 species live in the treetops of Central and South American rain forests, where transparency most likely evolved as a form of camouflage.

From the depths of the South American rain forests to the peaks of the East Asian mountains, Focused Energy integrates Natural Caffeine from coffee beans, L - Theanine from green tea leaves, and Yerba Mate leaves to help you reach new heights and give you the mental and physical boost you need, whenever you need it.

Mark Dion's «place sensitive» works do not distinguish between the South American rain forests, the «white cube» of the museum or Hamburg \'s Herrengraben Fleet.

Even if we assume the Eastern Woodland culture was no more successful than the much less civilized (meaning much less agriculturized) hunter - gatherer cultures of today's South American rain forests, their 2.5 people per square mile population density times the 2.6 million square kilometer Eastern Woodland area results in a possible Eastern Woodland area population of 6.5 million people.

Not exact matches

(One of his more counterintuitive findings is that microbial communities are more biodiverse in the American Plains than in the Amazon rain forest.)

He directed a team that built a 40,000 - cubic - foot rain forest for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and he has engineered everything from replicas of the leaves and buds of a groundnut vine at the Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum to the skeletal mount for Sue, the world's largest T. rex, at the Field Museum in Chicago.

According to the analysis, new climates would be most dramatic in the rain forests of the Amazon and Indonesia, but would extend as far toward the poles as the American southeast.

Despite the often lush appearance of the terrain, the soil in a rain forest is typically nutrient - poor compared with, say, the soil of the American Midwest, which is rich enough to support most of our farming.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

Talk about a writer knowing the world he is describing: Matthiessen, a naturalist and wilderness writer, traveled over 20,000 miles, crisscrossing the South American wilderness from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Piccu high in the Andes over 20 years of research.

Activities in these months include the Belikin Festival, Hike and Bike for the Rain Forest, Pan American Day, Stann Creek Agricultural Fair and the San Pedro Christmas Boat Parade.

A true nature - lover's paradise, this Central American nation offers 800 miles of shoreline and vast stretches of protected rain forest and reserves.

Invitation to a preview of the exhibition Afro — American Arts from the Suriname Rain Forest, February 4 — March 15, 1981 at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

Press release announcing the exhibition Afro — American Arts from the Suriname Rain Forest, February 4 — March 15, 1981 at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

Press release announcing programs at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, including a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Afro — American Arts from the Suriname Rain Forest, February 4 — March 15, 1981.

The big climate bill that is expected to be debated on the Senate floor very soon provides incentives for American companies to invest in rain - forest projects abroad.

However, when Americans are asked to rank environmental concerns, global warming is well below other issues, such as water pollution, air pollution, damage to the ozone layer and the loss of tropical rain forests.

In the late 80's a significant portion of TRL research was dedicated to understanding the impacts of acid rain on eastern North American forests.

Fewer than one - third of Americans lose sleep over global warming, fewer than express concern over air pollution, fewer than get stressed over environmental issues that haven't dominated the news in decades, such as the extinction of plants and animals and the loss of tropical rain forests.

We plowed up the American prairie, and downed rain forests.

The problem in the 1980s was that American power plants were sending up vast clouds of sulfur dioxide, which was falling back to earth in the form of acid rain, damaging lakes, forests and buildings across eastern Canada and the United States.