Sentences with phrase «arid west»

16 April, 2018 — America's arid West is growing bigger.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has flagged the desirability of a new HVDC line from Moomba to Brisbane and better connections between South Australia and New South Wales, ideally across New South Wales» arid west and through Broken Hill.

A dry year does not always trigger a drought, even in the arid West.

The 100th meridian west (solid line) has long been considered the divide between the relatively moist eastern United States and the more arid West.

Theres an invasion going on down the middle of the U.S., as America's arid West advances eastwards.

Few forces of nature are as terrifying and unpredictable as forest fires, particularly those in America's arid West...

That blazing, doomed grizzly is a useful metaphor for the «hotshots» we're about to meet, firefighters who do battle with the infernos that periodically burn through America's arid west.

Peru's largest cities are on the arid west side of the Andes, and water systems are already insufficient to meet the growing demand spurred by migration.

In the arid West, those numbers add up.

Several researchers at the meeting presented computer modeling studies aimed at helping resource managers in the arid West, where population growth and climate change are putting increasing pressure on the region's water supply.

In the sunny, arid West, there is plenty of heat but limited moisture, and so a process called moisture recycling is at work — today's storms supply the water that evaporates into tomorrow's rainclouds.

Such changes were largely missing in the arid West.

On Thursday, the House passed a H.R. 700 setting up a pilot program to increase usable water supplies through water conservation and reuse of wastewater, an approach that is crucial in the arid West and Southwest.

Not exact matches

Indian tribes that lived in the lush Mississippi delta and Gulf coast were herded and shipped off to arid Oklahoma and parts west, etc..

The Alliance urged its members not to perpetuate the divisions of the West on the mission field, advocating that the newly planted churches be rooted in the local culture arid that they be allowed to become independent as soon as possible and to join the Alliance as independent churches.

The property's proximity to the Pacific Ocean, a mere 26 miles to the west, creates a climate that is arid, sunny and mild.

A study, involving researchers from the University of Southampton, found that water - limited ecosystems in arid and semi-arid regions, such as The Great Plains and South - West United States and some in Australia and Mediterranean Europe, were particularly impacted by these indirect effects.

Brooks and Harpold looked at snowpack data from more than 400 locations around the West, from the humid Pacific Northwest to the arid desert southwest.

Many arid regions of the globe, including the American West, are dealing with growing populations and shrinking water supplies.

Although many parts of west Africa are experiencing increased rainfall as a result of global warming, in northern Ghana, which is mostly arid savanna, it's diminishing or becoming unpredictable.

The United States could see a 10 - degree temperature rise by the end of the century and a more arid south and west, Overpeck said.

A harsh coming - of - age story set in a dreamlike, re-imagined, post-modern wild west, McLean's film manages to sidestep the arid ironies of most modern westerns on its way to far more interesting territory.

A high, thin whisper of impending doom slowly took over at the base of my skull, painting lurid scenes of our bleached bones being strewn across the arid expanses of West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona by coyotes.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

From all our public areas and rooms, our guests will enjoy expansive views of the pristine arid savanna of the adjacent Galapagos National Park by looking north, to extinct volcanic cones shrouded in mist, mountains covered with lush tropical cloud forests, and green pasture farms by looking to the south - west; along with a 270 degree view of the infinite Pacific Ocean with nearby islands as a backdrop.

Table Mountain, the lap of Cape Town, and the city's most famous landmark, seems to set the scene as part of an effortlessly glorious landscape teeming with wild seas, mountains, effortless valleys that boast some of the most incredible wines, the arid spaces that make up the Little Karoo, the beauty of the Overberg, the litany of nature reserves and green spaces, and the wild West Coast that all combine to make this an adventurer's ultimate destination.

When they need to recover from stress, smog, or something stronger, West Coasters head for arid climes.

Hartswater is one of two main towns in the Vaalharts Valley; an oasis on the edge of the arid Northern Cape border with North West.

Accommodation in Hartswater Hartswater is one of two main towns in the Vaalharts Valley; an oasis on the edge of the arid Northern Cape border with North West.

Beaufort West lies in the heart of the Great Karoo and is the ideal spot in which to explore this arid area.

Eolo Lodge, located 30 minutes west of El Calafate, is built on 10,000 acres of arid steppe and pampas grass with lake views.

Beaufort West is the largest town in the arid Great Karoo region, and the centre of an agricultural district based mainly on sheep farming.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 «Sidereal Rift,» Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica 2013 «Some Dry Space,» James Danziger Gallery, New York 2012 «Private Frontiers,» Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 «Two Sublimes, Idaho» Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica 2011 «Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West,» Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR 2010 «Architecture of Subtraction,» Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2010 «InterMountain,» Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica 2009 «100 Suns,» Yours Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland 2009 «New Work,» Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2008 «Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West,» Nevada Museum of Art, Reno 2008 «Bookworks and Photographs,» Galerie Michael Wiesehoefer, Cologne 2008 «100 Suns,» Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington 2008 «100 Suns,» Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee 2007 «Edge Of The West,» Galerie Luc Bellier, Paris 2007 «Los Angeles 07.27.05,» Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica 2007 «Bookworks,» Hosfelt Gallery, New York 2007 «Near Planet,» Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2006 «100 Suns,» Hosfelt Gallery, New York 2006 «Full Moon,» Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden 2005 «Hover,» Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2005 «Arid Flows: Los Angeles and Its Deserts,» Natural History Museum of LA County, CA 2005 «100 Suns: For Robert, Ernest & Edward's Berkeley, 1945 - 1962», University of California, Berkeley 2004 «100 Suns,» Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2004 «Silence and the Big Blast,» Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh 2004 «100 Suns,» Auditorium Arte, Rome 2004 «100 Suns,» Frehrking + Wiesehofer Gallery, Cologne 2004 «Some Dry Space,» Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica 2003 «100 Suns,» Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2001 Metropolitan Transit Authority / Arts For Transit, Grand Central Station, New York 2000 «Full Moon,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2000 «Full Moon» American Museum of Natural History, New York 1999 «Full Moon,» Hayward Gallery, London 1999 «Full Moon,» Huis Marseille / Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam 1999 «Full Moon,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1995 «Blue Fall,» Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA 1995 «Ranch & Oblivion,» Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

«This is a serious concern because a large proportion of the population lives in arid regions to the west of the Andes,» said Antoine Rabatel, the lead author of the study and a scientist with the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France, in an interview with the Guardian.

The soft chanting of the Common Poorwill is one of the evocative sounds of summer on rocky slopes and arid pinewoods across the American West.

1838 − 39 Droughts in South Australia and Western Australia 1839 Severe drought in the west and north of Spencer Gulf, South Australia 1846 Severe drought converted the interior and far north of South Australia into an arid desert.

To the west, in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, the Thar Desert stretches across 200,000 square kilometers of arid, dusty land.

They found that the drought conditions of the future American west will be more severe than the hottest, most arid extended droughts of the 12th and 13th centuries, which are thought to have played a role in ending the once - flourishing Pueblo culture of the American Southwest.

For the rest of this century, cities in the east and southeast of the US will be more severely affected: less so the cities in the arid parts of the American west.

During the last century, mean precipitation in all four seasons of the year has tended to decrease in all the main arid and semi-arid regions of the world, e.g., northern Chile and the Brazilian North - East, West Africa and Ethiopia, the drier parts of Southern Africa and Western China (Folland et al., 2001).

The looming loss of the glaciers is a major problem for the people living in arid regions west of the Andes, Rabatel said.

The United States could see a 10 - degree temperature rise by the end of the century and a more arid south and west, Overpeck said.

Then there's the transition zone from the Atlantic Coast west through Kansas, where different climatic zones — cool, warm, humid and arid — all collide.