Sentences with phrase «river delta»

The Vancity report shows how farmland prices in metro Vancouver now sell between $ 150,000 to $ 350,000; land prices in the rich and productive soils of the Fraser River delta have risen and now sell in the range of $ 80,000 to $ 110,000 per acre.

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This research draws samples from 161 services enterprises in Pearl River delta, adopting structural equations modeling (SEM), aiming to explore in depth that co-production and innovation orientation have mediating effect and moderating effect between relationship property and service innovation performance.

Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the San Joaquin - Sacramento River Delta, it is a suburb of San Francisco and Oakland.

This kind of movement creates a wealth of executive opportunity, and with 400 million people living in the corridor west of the Pearl River Delta, China's demography will inevitably dominate the 21st century global economy.

«With the Pearl River Delta identified as a centre of growth in a wide array of specialisms, and the establishment of the Greater Bay Area likely to create a greater need for sophisticated recruitment services, there is excellent potential for Hays to expand in the region.»

The capital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou was a fitting choice to hold a conference, not only because it is a core city that together with Shanghai forms the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone, China's most dynamic and innovative city clusters, but also because the Hangzhou government is known to be open to creative companies and talents, as evidenced by the success of Alibaba, the world's e-commerce behemoth.

These homes also need flood coverage, because a significant rainfall or storm surge can be just as devastating as a river delta flood, and can impact houses miles from the special hazard zone.

If you rent in areas prone to flooding e.g. near a river delta, earthquakes e.g. near a fault line, or susceptible to windstorm damage e.g. in the Southern California desert), talk to your agent about tacking on some extra protection.

Gradually, the river delta's are becoming more salty, creating havoc with the organisms living in and around the rivers.

During the Gulf Oil Spill we reminded readers that while massive oil spills make all the headlines in the United States, in Nigeria large spills are tragically commonplace (photo above)-- so much so that it is one of the major factors behind armed conflict in the Niger River delta.

The Ganges river delta is the main source of drinking water for hundreds of millions of people.

It seems to be river delta awareness day in global media: A piece in The Guardian highlights the future impact on climate change on the Nile Delta; and Reuters points out that the Mekong Delta faces difficult times ahead

It seems to be river delta awareness day in global media: A piece in The Guardian highlights the future impact on climate change on the Nile Delta; and Reuters points out that the Mekong Delta faces difficult times ahead as well — 10 % of Ho Chi Minh City could be submerged by 2100:

«The Deepwater Horizon incident may have been the worst oil spill in U.S. history, but it pales in comparison to the ongoing catastrophe that has afflicted Nigeria's Niger River Delta over the last five decades,» he writes, noting that the African country suffers the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every year.

In 2008, Canadian and Japanese researchers extracted a constant stream of natural gas from a test project at the Mallik gas hydrate site in the Mackenzie River delta.

Seas are rising too fast to save much of the Mississippi River Delta, scientists say (Washington Post, April 11, 2018)

The computer simulations of changing conditions in vulnerable regions later this century − in a blazing landscape fed by a river delta flowing through steamy marshland, and enfolding a calm, relatively shallow 1,000 km lagoon of evaporating seawater − have delivered a stark conclusion.

The restoration of the Mississippi River Delta and the storage of blue carbon (the carbon captured by coastal ecosystems) is of national significance.

The lecture was introduced by Njeri Gakonyo, GBM Board Chair who highlighted the important linkages between great writing, such as Jung Chang's and Wangari Maathai's work, and inter-cultural understanding in overcoming the kind of awful, unacceptable conflict currently being witnessed in the Tana River delta.

This is essential because floods, rising seas and drought can ravage this Southeast Asian river delta that is a source of income, food and transportation for many.

For instance, by 2080, if we assume continuing growth rates in consumption of fossil fuels, the numbers of additional people exposed to frequent flooding in the river delta areas of the world would be counted in hundreds of millions assuming no adaptation measures were implemented.»

For the first time, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have successfully decoded climate data from old permafrost ground ice and reconstructed the development of winter temperatures in Russia's Lena River Delta.

Ngo, Quang Thanh (2016): Farmers» adaptive measures to climate change induced natural shocks through past climate experiences in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam.

Novel human - induced subsidence caused by the withdrawal of ground water on a river delta could produce catastrophic effects in exactly these areas that the authors are concerned about.

Bangaladesh IS a river delta.

Except, again, out in western portion of the state, especially along the Bering Sea coast from the Seward Peninsula southward to the Yukon River delta.

A city on a fast - sinking river delta (and fast - sinking deltas, undermined by the pumping of groundwater and starved of sediment by dams upstream, are common Anthropocene environments) could spend millions of years buried and still, when eventually uncovered, reveal through its crushed structures and weird mixtures of materials that it is unlike anything else in the geological record.

The Indus River Delta region in Pakistan is also experiencing mass migration away from coastlines.

A quarter of the land surface in this huge river delta is flooded every year.

Raised in a rural area in the Irrawaddy River delta, journalist and social activist Myint Zaw grew up swimming in the river and climbing neighboring mountains.

Although less firmly established than the other such intervals, it is supported by stratigraphic data from elsewhere including Chesapeake Bay; the Mississippi River delta; the Yellow River in China; coastal Lancashire, England; and Limfjord, northwestern Denmark.

A 2002 lawsuit, Kiobel v. Shell, alleges that Shell «aided and abetted» the Nigerian military dictatorship in committing severe human rights abuses against members of the Ogoni people who were involved in a nonviolent movement to stop it from drilling for oil in their rich Niger River Delta homeland.

The only real cause for concern I see is if you happen to live on a flood plain, river delta, or coral atoll and you have interrupted the natural mechanisms by which nature has always kept those locations above sea level — if so look to it.

Woodburn, a hydrogeologist by training, along with Carl Steefel, head of Berkeley Lab's Geochemistry Department, will develop a mechanistic numerical model of the Cosumnes River watershed, which extends from the Sierra Nevada to south of Sacramento, ultimately feeding into the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta and the California State Water Project, the major source of water for much of Southern California.

Newsom has supported Brown's proposal to move water during dry times from Northern California to Southern California through a $ 16 billion tunnel project in the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta.

fernandoleanme and Judith == > When I last looked at this problem with an Alaskan site, I found that the town was built on a gravel bar in a river delta open to the sea on one side.

In China, ports in the Bo Sea, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta began early implementation of the 0.5 % sulfur limits

Steele, M., A. Porcelli, and J. Zhang, Origins of the SHEBA freshwater anomaly in the Mackenzie River delta, Geophys.

This study examined farmers» adaptive measures to climate change induced natural shocks through past climate experiences in the Mekong River Delta (Vietnam) from a data set of 330 farmers.

(Like sediment from a river delta, an ice flow reaching the sea tends to fan out.)

Farmers» adaptive measures to climate change induced natural shocks through past climate experiences in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam

The main airport, Suvarnabhumi, was built in a place called Cobra Swamp, and the city itself took shape on the Chao Phraya River delta — a marshy reptile paradise.

The area of hypoxia, or low oxygen, in the northern Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi River delta covered 20,000 square kilometers (7,722 square miles) of the bottom and extended far into Texas waters.

Images of the Irrawaddy River delta before and after the cyclone.

From space we see that the Burma tragedy is mostly geography (a vast, low lying river delta in path of tropical cyclones every decade or so).

Of course, the Lena river delta, with its rapidly warming waters, is central to the ESAS methane situation, and slope failure might be a potential mechanism for sudden releases there.

A case in point is the Niger River delta, which for decades has been tapped for its large crude reserves.

A certain amount of climate change is now inevitable, but the water choices made in Las Vegas and elsewhere will determine our quality of life in the Southwest and the fate of the Colorado River Delta.

The amount of water cited as potentially available from conservation is more than what is now reaching the Colorado River Delta, thanks only to leaks and occasional overflows in the plumbing.