Sentences with phrase «areas of the continent»

The idea is to provide people in far - flung areas of the continent with medical advice and direct communication with doctors.

This provides important weather data, however they are mostly located around the coast, so leave vast areas of the continent and the surrounding oceans uncovered.

Tough new rules designed to protect Europe's ecosystems from acid rain will not apply to parts of Norway, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands, the areas of the continent that have suffered the worst ravages of acid pollution.

Why is the inner area of that continent obfuscated by a huge white circle on Google Earth?

There are larger areas of the continent getting covered by this heat, which is a salient point when you are working out bushfire conditions.»

The strait is one of the most heavily fished areas of the continent for Antarctic krill.

The area of continents flooded has also stabilised since this period.

A team of scientists at Brown University have established that early mammals confined themselves to one area of the continent while early reptiles known as procolophonids lived in another section.

The southern hemisphere has no significant area of these continents either.

Still, areas of the continent, like the Antarctic Peninsula photographed above, have increased their mass loss in the last decades.

Not exact matches

Venezuela, the most hardline socialist country in the American continent, is in a steep crisis in recent years ever since oil prices fell below the $ 100 area in 2014 down to a third of the price in early 2016.

The field can also be characterized geographically, so that if revolutionary activity on the Continent was an element in the emerging constitution of the Reform Bill passage, then the same area ought to be considered when analyzing its antecedent world.

Every area of the so - called dark continent of Africa had at last been penetrated by Europeans.

I know nothing of Julia Young's domestic arrangements, but my experience of large U.S. cities is that the educated professional classes tend to live so far from the areas inhabited by recent immigrants that they might as well be in another continent.

The Lutheran Protestantism which was dominant on the Continent of Europe by long tradition accorded more power to the state than did much of Anglo - Saxon Protestantism and limited the areas in which the Christian spirit might impel individuals, as Christians, to take the initiative.

In the larger Europe which arose from emigration, Protestantism was increasingly important, particularly, of course, in areas peopled chiefly from the British Isles and the Protestant countries of the Continent.

If Leopold and other scientists are correct, if the land is indeed one organism and there is a total and critical interdependence among all living things, then the deliberate poisoning of vast areas of the U.S. will have been a long stride toward the end of life as it is known on the North American continent.

Most of the team require a bit of building to challenge either domestically or on the continent, or in both areas.

HIV / AIDS is decimating communities throughout the continent, and indeed in many other areas of the world.

President Akufo - Addo said the new crop of African leaders had come into office at a critical time in the lives of the Africans, where old alliances were having to be reshaped, implying that Africa had to look for new sources and new areas of committing resources to the development of the continent.

This approach has been inspired by the Randstad and the Rhine - Ruhr, two areas on the continent that, like the North of England, have a number of cities located close together.

«Therefore collaboration in areas of training, exercises, operations and intelligence sharing is imperative for us to achieve results in safeguarding the African continent,» he said.

«In Africa, we are on the threshold of finalising negotiations to establish the first ever Single Market for Trade in Goods and Services on our Continent in the Continental Free Trade Area for Africa.

As the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the UBA Group, UBA Foundation is committed to the socio - economic betterment of communities across the African continent focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education, Economic Empowerment and Special Projects.

The focus on Abu Dhabi is part of the CIOB's strategic plan which will allow the Institute to play a major role in supporting industry, professionalism and key development projects in the Middle East as well as creating a link with the Indian Sub Continent, another key strategic area of interest for the Institute.

With Africa's population set to reach some 2 billion people in 20 years time, President Akufo - Addo noted that an African Common Market presents immense opportunities to bring prosperity to the continent with hard work, enterprise and creativity, hence, the importance of the success of the Continental Free Trade Area.

So I urge you to ensure the unity and stability of the Yoruba race within the territory of Nigeria, interface with the Yoruba inside Africa continent and network the Yoruba in the Diaspora for global collaboration in the areas of cultural integration, skills development, mental enrichment and social interaction.

He explained though the African continent has improved in several areas including governance, freedom of speech among others, surge in number of free media and civil society organizations a lot more can be done if African is given the space.

Fully mapped tree census plots of large area, 25 to 52 hectares, have now been completed at six different sites in tropical forests, including dry deciduous to wet evergreen forest on two continents.

a. Location of study area on the Antarctic continent.

That this continent, whose present unexplored and unvisited extent is twice the area of Europe, was larger in former geological ages is scarcely to be doubted.

At the time of the revival of Antarctic exploration in the beginning of the present century, knowledge of Antarctica was of two grades: in some areas the approaches from the sea had been explored; of the rest nothing was known, Knowledge of the first grade existed only in relation to two or three parts of the continent.

In the millennia since humans dispersed across all forested continents, we have transformed large areas of natural forest.

Our itinerary weaves together two dimensions of this fascinating continent: spectacular landscapes with unmatched views — to the horizons and skyward — in remote areas of Chile and Peru; and a legacy of engineering, architecture, art, and philosophy that includes a tradition of astronomical observation dating back two millennia.

Dr Konrad added: «These differences emphasise the complex nature of ice sheet instability across the continent, and being able to detect them helps us to pinpoint areas that deserve further investigation.»

«Given the wide variation in the transmission of the disease — endemic areas, areas of low endemicity, hyperendemic areas, and sometimes these strata all occurring in the same country — we prefer to look at each country separately without aggregates over the entire continent,» Buj says.

Using conventionally bred hybrid seeds, farmers in certain fertile areas of Ethiopia have witnessed their fields turn into a breadbasket that is rivaled in the sub-Saharan region of the continent only by South Africa.

They assessed the potential environmental impacts of 33 planned or existing corridors — spanning 53,000 kilometers — that would crisscross much of the African continent, opening up vast areas of sparsely populated land.

«It's a guess how much of the planet's surface was land, but it could be as high as two - thirds of the area of today's continents,» says Johnson, who leads the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

Some geologists speculate that massive volcanic eruptions covering areas as large as modern continents triggered the release of methane buried in the ocean floor, causing a greenhouse effect.

The degree of nighttime illumination was then compared with unprotected areas for each continent over the 2 decades.

Swiss scientists have discovered a new species of aculeate wasp, not hidden somewhere in a jungle on a remote continent, but in Central Europe, in a swampy area just a few kilometers from Zurich.

Rychert notes that some of the data that generated the 60 - mile estimate might have come from seismic stations near thin edges of continents; she plans to examine data from additional stations in those areas to confirm her findings.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

and towns or aid exploration in remote areas, such as Egypt's Western Desert, which might link the archaeology of the African continent together more coherently from the Paleolithic to the pharaonic past.

That area is a geologic mirror image of South America's eastern flank, the two continents having separated when the supercontinent of Gondwana broke apart some 160 million years ago.

Ice - free areas of Antarctica — home to more than 99 per cent of the continent's terrestrial plants and animals — could expand by more than 17,000 km2 by the end of this century, a study published today in Nature reveals.

The ocean contains 320 million cubic miles of water covering 140 million miles of seafloor, more than twice the area of all the continents combined, and we've only had a look at tiny bits of it.

Ms Lee said Antarctic ice - free areas cover less than one per cent of the continent, ranging from the size of a football pitch to the size of a small Pacific Island.

One big reason the sea level dropped for so long: Only 6 % of the rainfall in Australia runs directly back to the sea, and the rest runs inland to lowlands (image depicts a normally dry area in eastern Australia flooded by rains in late November 2011) where it either soaks into the ground or evaporates back into the atmosphere — a process that returns moisture to the sea far more slowly than the rivers draining other continents do.