Sentences with phrase «as dam building»

Human activities such as dam building, logging, pollution, and overfishing have already depressed salmon populations in the Northwest to historically low levels.2 Many salmon species are classified as threatened or endangered.

«As a dam built across a river causes a local deepening of the stream, so our atmosphere, thrown as a barrier across the terrestrial [infrared] rays, produces a local heightening of the temperature at the Earth's surface.»

In 1862 he wrote, «As a dam built across a river causes a local deepening of the stream, so our atmosphere, thrown as a barrier across the terrestrial [infrared] rays, produces a local heightening of the temperature at the Earth's surface.»

For a super simple explanation to a general audience, I quote what John Tyndall wrote back in 1862: «As a dam built across a river causes a local deepening of the stream, so our atmosphere, thrown as a barrier across the terrestrial [infrared] rays, produces a local heightening of the temperature at the Earth's surface.»

Thus, in 1862, John Tyndall, a British researcher, wrote about infrared radiation, «As a dam built across a river causes a local deepening of the stream, so our atmosphere, thrown as a barrier across the terrestrial rays, produces a local heightening of the temperature at the earth's surface.»

Not exact matches

China has already spent approximately $ 180 billion to complete various projects, but many billions more will go toward building roads, ports, dams, high - speed rail, airports and more — all to «enhance regional connectivity,» as President Xi Jinping put it, and strengthen China's economic clout.

(Note that invoking the Darwinian mechanism to explain why beavers build dams is not illuminating because if beavers didn't build dams, the Darwinian mechanism would readily account for this as well.)

From what I've read, the theory goes that as plants feed useful chemicals back into the soil, birds make nests and beavers build dams, we too create mini ecosystems around us, except that as well as physically, we do it through culture.

The way to stop floods is by building dams and controlling the flow of rivers; plagues and epidemics are conquered by more precise knowledge about bacteria and viruses: why pray when through the controls made possible by our knowledge of the cause - and - effect linkage we can do for ourselves as much as can be done?

He showed me nine dams and ponds which had just been built with bulldozers as a start toward holding the vital water on the place.

«As a result, we can't release water from behind the dam and, as a result, silt is building up and silt has been building up near the area where there's a natural island because that's what nature wants to do - is continue to build the island - and it's caused not just to aesthetically look pooAs a result, we can't release water from behind the dam and, as a result, silt is building up and silt has been building up near the area where there's a natural island because that's what nature wants to do - is continue to build the island - and it's caused not just to aesthetically look pooas a result, silt is building up and silt has been building up near the area where there's a natural island because that's what nature wants to do - is continue to build the island - and it's caused not just to aesthetically look poor.

«What we are building at Omi Dam is capable of sparking mass resignation from the civil service as our people are seeing a window of opportunity to prosperity through agriculture».

Beavers use wood for nutrition and as the building material for their nests and dams.

«One of the main reasons to build Three Gorges dam [was] to store water in the upper river so as to protect eastern parts of the country,» says Lai Hun Suen, a professor of sustainable development at Chongqing University and a municipal government official.

Atkinson said the new numbers could be used to recalculate the seismic hazard for the region, which could impact everything from building codes to safety assessments of critical infrastructure such as dams and bridges.

As a result, many private landowners and corporations can leverage easier environmental permitting to build small hydropower dams for a fraction of the time and cost of large dams.

Toxic species such as Chromulina sp. also have appeared in the Black Sea since the dam was built.

A team led by Venugopalatan Ittekkot of the University of Hamburg in Germany analyzed data on nutrients such as silicates and nitrogen before and after the Iron Gates dam near the Romania - Yugoslavia border was built in the early 1970s.

Engineers and economists now regard many of the dams built over the past 50 years as follies.

In the east tensions are rising as India expresses concerns about a spate of planned dam - building projects by China on rivers flowing into Indian territory, particularly on the mighty Brahmaputra.

A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California's rivers as a solution to the water crisis.

Humans make music just as beavers build dams and peacocks show off their tail feathers, he reasoned, so music must have evolved.

Any dam being built during this government - funded boom, as well as those already completed, must be able to withstand the strong ground shaking of an extreme earthquake, says Martin Wieland of the International Commission on Large Dams, a group of engineers that makes recommendations for structural standards.

«Over the past 60 years, a myriad of dams have been built either to provide hydroelectric power, or for irrigation purposes, or as flood protection,» says Bernhard Lehner, a professor in McGill University's Department of Geography and the research director of the project.

Since Egyptians built the first known dam around 2500 BCE, water managers have expected rivers to continue behaving as they have in the past.

As we approach the item we discover it is a beaver dam, built right on the trail.

Civil engineering is one of the engineering disciplines that involves the designing, construction, and maintenance of the physical or naturally built environment, such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.

Outside you will find a porch with gorgeous views of the dam, a built - in braai as well as a Weber, an outside patio dining set and a wonderful garden.

While in the Peace Corp, Rich helped dozens of villages, in Sakolnakorn Province, design and build infrastructure projects such as small dams and spillways.

They also build upon the collective histories of their chosen medium — clay as nature, clay as origin, clay as shelter, clay as dam, clay as vessel, clay as terra firma — and choose to play with those histories in their attempts to give the viewer pause while, simultaneously, addressing twenty - first - century aesthetics and concerns.

Incrementally, how many fewer dams would you build if all power came from other sources, so long as those needs remain?

However, as the Indus has many tributaries water flow continues downstream and the «majority of water experts in Sindh remain unaware of any dam built in Tibet.»

Dams were built to generate electricity specifically for making aluminum (which is sometimes known as solid electricity because it takes so much to make it).

Just as the Administration does not consider building a dam in the Grand Canyon during times of drought, we will not consider opening one of the last pristine ecosystems of North America during an oil price spike.»

In practice, revolutionary left - wing parties in power — such as the communists in Russia / Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s and China in the 1950s and 1960s — were gung - ho in the building of dams.

Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as opposition built because of the displacement of people and inundation of productive land.

Oroville Dam was built to standards but those standards are for it to «fail safe», as there is no way to design a dam to withstand a major seismic event or a 1,000 year deluDam was built to standards but those standards are for it to «fail safe», as there is no way to design a dam to withstand a major seismic event or a 1,000 year deludam to withstand a major seismic event or a 1,000 year deluge.

There was much controversy when the dam was built in the 1970s, as land was taken from many First Nation families.

China plans to build and operate ten new dams on the Lancang River as part of its 12th Five Year Energy Plan.

Yet almost all new dams being built in China are being registered as CDM projects.

Some sectors, such as those involved in large water resource projects (e.g. building a new dam), are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

In 2002, over 33,000 salmon died in a massive fish kill caused by dams on the river, as well as water diversions, agriculture, industrial pollution, mining, road building and poor forestry.

• Climate priorities: Allen did not respond to requests for comment, but he has said that he wants to build more dams as a way to increase water capacity.

The Guardian: Assam, the northeastern Indian state, east of Bangladesh and bordering China to the north, is an area described by politicians as India's «future powerhouse» and is a key focus point of the country's dam building programme.

«California's dams and water storage facilities are built to handle the snow melt as it happened in the past.

In the first place, he describes the dam - building boom in Brazil as a crisis of astronomical proportions.

Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as the costs of displacing people, ecological damage, and land inundation became more visible.

«As more dams are built and as land use and agricultural practices in coastal regions continue to rapidly change, we're seeing a sharp drop in inorganic sediment delivery to many coastal marshes worldwidAs more dams are built and as land use and agricultural practices in coastal regions continue to rapidly change, we're seeing a sharp drop in inorganic sediment delivery to many coastal marshes worldwidas land use and agricultural practices in coastal regions continue to rapidly change, we're seeing a sharp drop in inorganic sediment delivery to many coastal marshes worldwide.

China plans to build and operate ten additional dams on the Lancang River as part of its 12th Five Year Energy Plan.

With the era of dam building coming to an end in much of the developed world, places such as California and Australia are turning to local and less expensive methods to deal with water scarcity, including recycling wastewater, capturing stormwater, and recharging aquifers.