Sentences with phrase «across hundreds of islands»

«It's like a giant natural experiment with populations spread across hundreds of islands with different political institutions and modes of subsistence.

Not exact matches

Cuomo reiterated that the state would step up its efforts to assist Puerto Rico as it recovers from last fall's destructive hurricane by sending NYPA officials and hundreds of SUNY and CUNY students who will receive academic credit by performing Peace Corps - style rebuilding work in communities across the island.

The the 24 - hour, toll - free number intended for clients of a Long Island adoption law firm, has been flooded with hundreds of calls from Trump supporters across the country.

NEW YORK (AP)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says hundreds of plows from across the state were dispatched to Long Island to clear roads clogged up by a massive snowfall.

She has sequenced hundreds of tumor samples from across the island in an effort to understand how it evolves and how that affects the devils» survival rates.

«Power is off all across the island and the streets are deserted,» said Lionel Dosdosa, an International Organization for Migration coordinator on Bohol island, the epicenter of an October 15 earthquake that killed 222 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

A thousand miles from anywhere, the Seychelles consist of over a hundred islands scattered across the tropical Indian Ocean, just south of the Equator.

I was merely trying to figure how area such solar panel array would take up and this had nothing to do with costs but checking to see if it took up more area or somewhere close to areas of «peaks of eternal light»: «NASA and Europe revealed a small number of illuminated ridges within 15 km from the pole, each of them much like an island of no more than a few hundred meters across in an ocean of eternal darkness, where a lander could receive near - permanent lighting (~ 70 — 90 % of time in lunar winter, likely 100 % in lunar summer).»

Our trainings foster local leadership and steep learning in local traditions to yield powerful activism, such as the Pacific Warrior Training Program, which has mobilized hundreds of Indigenous activists across many Pacific islands to engage their communities on the impacts of climate change and participate in mass actions confronting the coal industry in Australia.

Communities across this province — from Chatham - Kent to Frontenac Island, Tillsonburg to Niagara — stand to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in direct benefits from wind energy projects.»

Fornearly 40 years, UHS and our affiliates have focused on meeting ourpatients» healthcare needs across the hundreds of localcommunities we call home.The company operates through itsfacilities more than 240 acute care hospitals, behavioral healthfacilities and ambulatory centers in the US, Puerto Rico, the USVirgin Islands and the United Kingdom.

Secretary Burwell will announce 234 preliminary awards for hundreds of communities across 49 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands.