Sentences with phrase «cover the earth by»

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In just a few hours a two - mile wide asteroid will pass right by Earth, if it veers off course and collides with your house, will insurance cover it?

Around 30 % of the Earth's useable surface is already covered by pasture land for animals, compared with just 4 % of the surface used directly to feed humans.

Yes, the earliest manuscripts we have are after His resurrection, but there were earlier writings that were not on durable material, and writings that were destroyed by the Romans and Jewish leaders, but the surviving record captures all the necessary Truths, even though the Gospels cover only a small fragment of Jesus» activities during His time on earth.

In a blind headlong rush to gain profit by any means these forces have already begun to obliterate animal species, forest cover, fish stocks, water reserves, land and air, and have engaged upon a satanically mindless pilfering of finite resources by vandalism of Mother Earth, and have raised gigantic questions over human survival prospects.

Thus we have a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses which together make up a sort of super-consciousness; the earth not merely covered by myriads of grains of thought but enclosed in one single enveloping consciousness so that it forms, functionally, a single vast grain of thought on a sidereal scale of immensity, the plurality of individual acts of reflective consciousness coming together and reinforcing one another in a single unanimous act.

Or to adopt another image one might say that the «psychic tint» of the earth, studied at a great distance by some celestial observer, would be seen, in the course of eons of geological time, to become gradually heightened in intensity until it reaches the peculiarly moving moment of climax when, in a spread of more active radiation covering Africa and southern Asia, a series of sparks begins to glow, foreshadowing the incandescence which is «hominization».

Much of our earth is covered by salt water, desert and ice.

At some point in early earth history, the entire globe was covered by water.

The Earth being covered by a flood?

In the parable, the seed in one case fell upon ground having a rocky bottom, covered over with a thin layer of earth; when the seed began to take root, its downward growth was hindered by the hard stone and therefore it spent its strength in pushing its green shoot aloft as high as it could, but having no inward moisture derived from root nourishment, it withered away.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

As to land and water on earth one theory holds that the earth was covered with water 3,000 meters deep when it was hit by large object that vaporized the surface leaving but a thin atmosphere and some water.

Here it was at once laid upon the heated stones at the bottom, and covered with thick layers of leaves, the whole being quickly hidden from sight by a mound of earth raised over it.»

There's an old line about energetic midfielders that suits Leicester's Frenchman so much, you can buy it emblazoned on a t - shirt: «Two - thirds of the Earth is covered by water.

I am happy to hear that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will direct the state to cover the superstorm Sandy claims rejected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the «earth movement» exemption [«State to pay claims that FEMA rejected, News, Sept. 28].

In this episode of Richard Garriott's miniseries, he shows us how Earth formed, how remnants of that formation still wander the solar system and how our planet came to be covered by oceans.

Vast deposits of rare earth and critical minerals found in Afghanistan by U.S. geologists under military cover could solve world shortages and get the country off opium and out from under Taliban control.

If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.

And that means the material challenge posed by rare earths won't be solved anytime soon, particularly as more wind farms cover the land, compact fluorescent lightbulbs and light - emitting diodes proliferate, and greater numbers of hybrid or electric vehicles hit the road.

100 Places to Go Before They Disappear by co + life This astonishing catalog of the earth's threatened wonders — from the low - lying islands of Tuvalu to Bolivia's snow - covered Chacaltaya mountain — will have you reaching for your passport.

«This is huge because 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered by water and we've largely been blind to it — until now.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

If Earth were a perfect sphere, perfectly uniform in density and covered to a uniform depth with ocean, the geoid — a word coined by geologists to refer to an imaginary plane located at the average level of the sea's surface — would be a perfect sphere as well.

The preliminary analysis, led by the research group of Professor Martin Barstow, Pro-Vice-Chancellor; Strategic Science Projects Director, Leicester Institute of Space & Earth Observation; Professor of Astrophysics & Space Science, Department of Physics & Astronomy, features on the cover of the online journal Universe.

According to the new findings, Earth may be able to significantly reduce global warming by releasing some of the heat through a «vent» in the cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean.

More than 8 in 10 people on Earth are covered by a mobile broadband signal

Some 71 % of Earth's surface is covered by oceans and 29 % by land.

«If in the Neoarchean period 97 % of the Earth's surface had been, as estimated from computer models, covered by water, these geochemical signals would not have been found for Neoarchean seawater,» adds Dr. Hoffmann.

About 85 percent of Earth's ice - free lands is covered by vegetation.

Space - based coronagraphs are more widely used in space weather research because of their wide - field solar views that are not interrupted by cloud cover or Earth's rotation.

Only 185 craters on Earth have been identified, and almost all are on dry land, leaving largely unexamined the 70 percent of the planet covered by water.

The area covered by all the green leaves on Earth is equal to, on average, 32 percent of Earth's total surface area — oceans, lands and permanent ice sheets combined.

Almost three - quarters of Earth's surface is covered by water.

A team led by Dr. F. Scott Anderson has now demonstrated that this technique can successfully date an Earth rock — the Duluth Gabbro — that is analogous to the rocks that cover one - third of the lunar nearside.

An international team of researchers used Google Earth and Collect Earth, a program developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, to estimate tree cover on more than 210,000 half - hectare plots in dry areas of Australia, Africa, the American West and elsewhere.

The new estimate, reported in the May 12 Science, increases by about 9 percent Earth's total area with more than 10 percent tree cover, adding a zone the size of the Amazon Basin.

This is good news: Drylands cover almost 42 percent of Earth's land surface, and climate change could expand the parched zones by 11 to 23 percent by 2100.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

In the new study, researchers placed tiny particles of silicon carbide (one represented by the group of tan molecules in this artist's concept) covered with graphite (hexagonal networks of gray atoms) in a vacuum chamber that duplicated the deep - space conditions surrounding many stars (temperatures between 900 and 1500 kelvins and pressures less than one - billionth that found at Earth's surface).

It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10 % of Earth's terrestrial surface that is covered by thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of the paleoenvironments of these regions has remained limited.

Headquartered in Oman, Good Earth Power AZ LLC is the second contractor attempting to build a business around the initiative, which requires that much of the restoration costs be covered by the value of trees removed from the forest.

Like Earth, Mars must have received a lot of water at birth; some researchers think the plains that cover most of its northern hemisphere were once the bed of a vast, shallow ocean, filled by cataclysmic floods of water cascading out of the southern highlands.

The zircon crystal comes into being deep inside a young Earth that is covered in ocean and pockmarked by volcanoes spewing white - hot lava.

YG: Right now the Earth is covered by more and more clouds... now the clouds have opened up.

Also in the environmental field, Ubik researchers have participated in the design of a software tool that integrates all the information on forest cover, drought and biodiversity produced by different European systems of Earth observation.

The photons emitted by such explosions, traveling at the speed of light, or about 300,000 kilometers per second, can still take billions of years to reach Earth, covering distances so vast it exceeds human comprehension.

Using satellite data, the scientists then assessed how this new tree and plant cover would drive three climate feedbacks: water vapor in the air, carbon absorption by plants and the reflectivity of the Earth's surface.

By characterizing the transition to the flare, their work opens the way to forecasting the solar storms that impact Earth, and makes the cover story of Nature dated October 23.

The familiar hemisphere facing Earth is covered by low, lava - filled plains (seen as the darker gray areas on the moon's «face»), whereas the far side, which is never visible from Earth, is a collection of rugged, mountainous highlands.