Sentences with phrase «as himalayas»

«Mountain glaciers and snow cover have declined on average in both hemispheres, and may disappear altogether in certain regions of our planet, such as the Himalayas, by 2030 ″

Soot deposition causes earlier seasonal melting of mountain snow in ranges as different as the Himalayas of Asia and the Sierra Nevada of California, and it is also believed to be accelerating the melting of Arctic sea ice.

Algae grow on other ice surfaces in areas such as the Himalayas, where they reside on water - producing glaciers.

The winter snowpack in mountainous regions such as the Himalayas, the Rockies, the Sierra, and the Andes is a most efficient reservoir, storing water through the cold months and releasing it gradually as snowmelt in warm months when farmers need it.

This has led to most glaciers in the mountainous regions such as the Himalayas to recede substantially during the last century and influence stream run - off of Himalayan rivers.

The impact of high elevation land forms, such as the Himalayas, the Andes and the Antarctic, are also left out.

Richard Long's solitary art expeditions have taken him as far afield as the Himalayas, Bolivia and the Sahara.

It may not be as exotic as the tropical island in Far Cry 3, or quite as striking as the Himalayas in Far Cry 4, and there were a few issues with texture popping and framerate drops, but on the whole, the American landscape has never looked so beautiful.

But the rim is actually made up of the stumps of huge mountains, believed to have been as high as the Himalayas, that have been eroded over millennia.

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Every person's DNA contains part of the human story: how our ancestors — lanky, tool - using apes — spread across the planet, colonizing environments as varied as the Himalayas, Arctic and Amazon Basin.

Not exact matches

Originally from the Himalayas, they are now widespread across Asia, Africa, and the United States, especially in the South, where they are as big a staple as collards.

The panel had written that the glaciers of the Himalayas could vanish by 2035 but in January retracted the statement (pdf) as «poorly substantiated.»

The technique, Fujita says, could be used in the initial screening of thousands of large glacial lakes in the Himalayas and continuous monitoring of topographical changes around the lakes as they expand and new moraine dams develop.

Most of these lakes are in the eastern Himalayas, where glacier lakes are expanding more rapidly than those in other parts of the mountain range mostly due to rising temperatures and decreasing snowfall during the summer monsoon as a result of climate change.

As glaciers in most parts of the Himalayas melt, floods caused by the bursting of rapidly expanding glacial lakes pose an increasing risk to mountain communities.

As glaciers disappear in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, one man is helping farmers irrigate their fields by storing water in an innovative way

«Black carbon emissions from burning biofuel such as yak dung have not been quantified before in the atmosphere of the Himalayas,» Saikawa says.

Scientists have suggested that the Himalayas, European Alps and mountains in Taiwan were caused by the same competing reactions as those Enkelmann has observed in southeastern Alaska.

He agreed that overstatements about the impacts are rampant in the Himalayas as well, saying, «The idea that 1.4 billion people are going to be without water when the glaciers melt is just not the case.

The Himalayas are one of the global «hotspots» of biodiversity; thousands of species are believed to be as yet undiscovered or not yet scientifically described.

Scientists from across the world have studied the part played by herbivores, such as sawflies, which eat petals and nectar, on an iris found in the Himalayas.

Plus, Charles Bishop discusses the «roller - coaster» flight strategy of bar - headed geese as they migrate across the Himalayas between their breeding and wintering grounds.

Started in 1802 by one William Lambton, what came to be known as the Great Trigonometrical Survey sucked up the entire first half of the century, by which point Lambton and his successors had really only managed to map a corridor of terrain from the foot of India to the great wall of mountains — the Himalayas, the Karakorams, the Pamirs — running along the top.

More alarmingly, the researchers also detected large amounts of POPs in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass, trees and fish in the Himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau, especially at the highest elevations.

In addition to saving lives, stopping soot may also preserve endangered ecosystems, such as the mountain glaciers of the Himalayas and Karakoram or Arctic sea ice.

Amos suggests that obstacles — such as the sea, glaciers, or mountains — on the route from Africa to the Middle East, across the Himalayas and over the Bering Strait, held many migrants back, so that a much smaller group moved on, producing offspring to inhabit new parts of the globe.

The process revealed by the study looks a lot like the process that is building the Himalayas today, as the Eurasian continent is pushing atop the Indian subcontinent.

Mountain chains, such as the Rockies or Himalayas, are the result of this tectonic activity.

It's happened twice this year — the Himalayas are warming up and changing fast, says Dawa, who only took up climbing seriously in 2006, but in a few years has climbed Everest twice as well as two 8,000 m peaks in Tibet.

Ocean tides, for example, are known to trigger weak micro-earthquakes deep below the San Andreas, as do heavy rains in the Himalayas.

«Gradually as you're walking along these dusty trails, you start to see these incredible mountains in the Himalayas,» she says.

They are also called «Wolfberries» and come from Asia, in places like China, Mongolia and the Himalayas, where they have been consumed and used as a medicine for thousands of years.

The Sattva Summit is a boutique conscious gathering, offering the opportunity for Yogis from across the globe to gather as a community, for a week of deep healing, expansion and reasonless joy at The Sattva Retreat, a luxurious sanctuary nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Come together as a global conscious community at the Sattva Summit in the foothills of the Himalayas for a peak experience of yoga, meditation, deep wisdom, inspiring movement and transformative service!

During the summer season we ran our Hatha Yoga Teacher Training courses in Italy and during the winter the Yoga Teacher Training course in Goa, benefits of yoga as though they were in the Himalayas.

It came as a huge shock as we have no other diabetics in the family.At the time we were eating very healthily but of course not primal.At age 7 she was trekking in the Himalayas with us and at 10 in hospital very sick.She is now very independent and going great and at uni but what a journey it's been!

The Ayurvedic ashram is situated at the foothills of the Himalayas and along the banks of the Ganga River: the sacred river of India that is worshiped as a goddess.

Himalayan salt is rock salt or halite from the Punjab region of Pakistan, near the Himalayas, but falsely marketed as being from the Himalayas.

Sentenced to work in a Siberian mine shaft that the director imagines as a hellish gold - tinged hallucination, the motley group of prisoners flee certain death for a several thousand mile trek across the Russian wilds, through the Mongolian deserts and over the Himalayas before arriving in non-Communist India.

Meru (R for profanity) «Because it is there» documentary tracing the route taken by a trio of elite climbers as they scale the face of the Himalayas» Mount Meru.

Stylistically, Meru doesn't do anything we haven't seen before in documentaries — cinematography of the Himalayas is no longer unique, but that doesn't mean it isn't just as breathtaking.

Armchair travelers will delight in the fast - paced action as it swings from America to England, France, Sweden, Germany, Iceland and even into the Himalayas, while the time period alternates between the present and pre-WWI England.

To keep his country's dream of independence alive by means of a government in exile, the young ruler would not only have to brave battalions of enemy soldiers and the whiteout conditions waiting on the slopes of the Himalayas» highest peaks, he'd have to overcome a different type of blindness: the naïveté intrinsic to his sheltered palace life and his position as leader of a people who considered violence deeply taboo.

Lakshmi, 13, knows nothing about the world beyond her village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal, and when her family loses the little it has in a monsoon, she grabs a chance to work as a maid in the city so she can send money back home.

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.

Don't expect that just because you're no longer fit enough to trek the Himalayas that you won't need as much money to live.

Natives of the Himalayas these dogs are huge when fully grown but as puppies they are incredibly cute.

Known as the last true Shangri - La, Bhutan is a landlocked country in the Himalayas which until recently has been largely closed to the rest of world.