Sentences with phrase «arid western»

His compelling perspective on climate change also connects to the Bren School's current Strategic Environmental Research Initiative, which is focused on wildfire at the urban - wildlife interface in the arid western United States under climate change.

As Wired points out, «The researchers also found that so - called biological soil crusts, a little - studied layer of lichen and bacteria found in arid western regions, play a surprisingly large role in preventing erosion.

Ningxia Autonomous Region, located in arid Western China, has had its economy hampered by water shortages, as the article in Beijing Review accounts.

Day 2 - Cuzco: On the hour - long morning flight from Lima you first traverse the arid western slopes and the sparsely - populated highlands before enjoying views toward spectacular snow - capped Andean peaks and tiny villages in jewel - like green valleys beneath high, treeless moorlands.

Arid western US regions will be up to 7 percent drier in the future, forecasts Nelson, citing increasing need for biologists, hydrologists, and engineers to cope with the challenges.

Professor Mauzerall said: «For example, relocating coal power generation to arid western regions could exacerbate water scarcity.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

At a dusty Texas oilfield, Apache Corp has eliminated its reliance on what arguably could be the biggest long - term constraint for fracking wells in the arid western United States: scarce freshwater.

Saline lakes, which provide critical habitats for migratory birds, are threatened globally and especially in the arid western United States.

One could say that Luther was struggling to free himself from the arid Western conceptualism which could not adequately describe either the gesture as a human rite or the spiritual theology needed to interpret it, let alone the simple Greek text based on the Aramaic words that went with the original gestures.

Not exact matches

A pope, Urban II, did give impetus to the Crusades, and though the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end eight hundred years ago, the evidence of a century of Crusader rule is visible in the commanding castles and European - style churches that still rise from the arid landscape, as well as the longstanding bonds between Middle Eastern and Western Christians, especially in Lebanon and the Holy Land.

Marked by massive wooden posts, the necropolis extends deep into the sands and is still a forbidding sight in the arid Taklamakan Desert of western China.

[Box 25] OIS correspondence, 1986 Foreign visitors, 1986 OIS staff meetings, 1986 OIS Committee on Arid Lands, 1986 China Exchange Program, 1986 Hewlett Packard project Interciencia Association Western Hemisphere Climate Program Denise Weiner PREP Meeting, April 1986 PREP, File «A» PREP, File «B» Science, Engineering and Diplomacy Fellows, 1986 Science Attache Programs Science Attache Seminars, File «A» Science Attache Seminars, announcements and invitations Science Attache, general Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology, 1986 National Science Week, Ben Franklin Lecture, 1986 National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, 1986 Environmental Science and Engineering Fellows, 1986 Research and Development Budget and Policy Project, 1986 R and D Colloquium, 1986 Dean Wakefield Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows, 1986 Mass Media Office of Opportunities in Science, 1986 Science, Technology and Education Committee on Arms Control and National Security, 1986 Program on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, 1986

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Clues from prehistoric arid periods in California show that today's increasing greenhouse gas levels could lock the state into drought for centuries, according to a study by an international research collaboration led by Glen MacDonald from UCLA and including Katrina Moser from Western University and her former graduate student, Amy Bloom.

I've been traveling so much the last few months that I think I've hit every climate possible, from Western North Carolina to Aruba, from Costa Rica to Alaska, I've hit lush tropical forests, arid deserts, tropical beaches and glaciers!

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.

From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, expand your influence and secure your reign as you build a dynastic empire to stretch across four centuries.

Attribution of satellite - observed vegetation trends in a hyper - arid region of the Heihe River basin, Western China

Peanut - shaped, with a brackish seawater lake towards its western coast, this arid island is ringed by a good selection of places to stay and is the most affordable of the three islands.

Next time, we'll find ourselves in the arid landscapes of the Western area of the map.

The imagery is set in the Western part of the United States, known for its arid and stony landscapes with desert flora, such as cacti and tumbleweeds.

Bühler's art is strongly influenced by his love of nature: the frequent travels to the Sonoran desert of the Western United States, the arid cactus flats of Baja California Sur, Mexico, and the lively and colorful markets of Southern Mexico.

Many of his paintings are based on the games, parties and bonfires of his childhood in the arid, desert - like area of western Argentina.

Artemisa californica is the sage of that community, whereas Artemisia tridentata is the dominant sage of the Great Basin, western arid lands and high deserts of the southwest and northwest [please, no calls for auditing of r ^ 2s for these papers].

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.

The arid conditions found along the western coasts of continents in subtropical latitudes are further enhanced by the influence of the equatorward surface air flow on the ocean currents.

Threatened birds are declining across 45 % of the country with extinctions in arid parts of Western Australia.

You can find similar types of droughts in the tree ring records during the 1100s and 1200s when most of Western North America was really arid.

The greatest dependence is in arid and semi-arid areas, such as western China, northeastern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and parts of Pakistan (17, 37).

Many semi-arid and arid areas (e.g., the Mediterranean Basin, western USA, southern Africa and northeastern Brazil) are particularly exposed to the impacts of climate change and are projected to suffer a decrease of water resources due to climate change (high confidence).

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).

Subtropical highs intensified over the ocean waters of the Southern Hemisphere and probably insulated the arid climate of Western Australia.

Furthermore, the western state of Gujarat, which contains large swaths of arid land, is an especially suitable spot for solar generation.