Sentences with phrase «by wind and water»

Plastic bags are difficult to recycle and clog up machines, light weight so they're easily transported by the wind and water, and they look like jelly fish in the ocean so they're mistaken for food by turtles.

Single - use - plastics are particularly problematic because they are often small, light enough to float and be transported by wind and water, and are produced in unbelievable amounts.

The nutrients can be moved around somewhat by wind and water, but the natural supply is generally limited to what can be found locally.

Physical and chemical weathering in hot arid environments, and erosion, transportation and deposition by wind and water

Picture fifth graders gathered around a table where teachers are modeling the effects of sand erosion by wind and water.

After breakfast, we travel to Bryce Canyon National Park, where the haunting rock formations known as Hoodoos have been shaped by wind and water erosion over the eons.

Sometimes called hoodoos, the red - orange sandstone rocks have been sculpted over the past million years by wind and water erosion into spires, towers and pedestals.

Balancing boulders on Earth are either deposited by glaciers or carved by wind and water erosion — none of which exist on a comet.

And brick dust, scattered by wind and water after the bricks themselves have deteriorated, is even more disordered.

They leave the land for the sea in response to complex signals conveyed by wind and water

«From the complete destruction of the Rockaway Boardwalk to recreational assets and natural habitats broken up by wind and water, New York City's parks were faced with unprecedented damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,» Commissioner Mitchell Silver said.

Not exact matches

Up a winding mountain road in California gold country, hidden by groves of redwood and pine — along with pockets of humanity living off the grid — is a reservoir with the cheapest water in America.

Goal: By 2050, Canada must be overwhelmingly powered by clean and renewable energy sources — wind, solar, water, biomass, and the heat of the Earth — instead of fossil fuelBy 2050, Canada must be overwhelmingly powered by clean and renewable energy sources — wind, solar, water, biomass, and the heat of the Earth — instead of fossil fuelby clean and renewable energy sources — wind, solar, water, biomass, and the heat of the Earth — instead of fossil fuels.

If a person were on a remote island and found the words «John 1800» engraved on a boulder, would these words have arisen by accident, perhaps by wind or water erosion?

Have the souls of Christianity and the tutelary spirits of wind, water and sacred grove once invoked by pagan Greece and Rome come back as software and information, which never diminish however often they are used?

When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure; when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunder; then he saw it and declared it; he established it and searched it out.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

I am not a hot weather girl by birthright and those photos I see of white sand beaches and turquoise water seem stifling — is there a cold wind there to steal your breath?

He did this by sending the wind to push back the waters, and then by blessing Noah and his family in their efforts to be fruitful and multiply upon the face of the earth.

For instance, it is probable that what happened at the Red Sea — actually the Sea of Reeds — had more to do with darkness and an east wind and chariots mired in the mud and the change of the tide, than with the vertical walls of water rendered so picturesquely by Cecil B. DeMille.

Then Moses stretched back by a strong east wind all out his hand over the seas, night, and made the sea dry and the waters were divided.

The first account represents the event as crucially conditioned by «natural» phenomena - an abnormally low tide produced by uncommonly strong winds; the returning of the water; the rendering ineffective of the Egyptian chariots by the now miry shallows; and the necessary abandonment of the chase.

The fact is, of course, that whether by wind and tide, or by giant walls of water which formed between a dry pathway through the midst of the sea, what is affirmed is the Lord's Power over all power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see Matt.

Moreover, if we are to accept the account of the deliverance at the Red Sea given by the J document, this central event of Israel's faith was the act of a nature - god who sent a wind and drove back the waters.

The bubbles on the foam which coats a stormy sea are floating episodes, made and unmade by the forces of the wind and the water.

The largest number of horns crowned the fifty great gods of the Sumerian pantheon, headed by the primal four: An, the Sky Father; Enlil, his son, god of winds; Enki, patron of wisdom and sweet water; and Ninhursag, «Lady of the Womb»» mother of animals and men, form giver, birth giver, «Midwife of the Gods.»

Paying a price premium can get you a salt that's «made by the action of sun and wind on pristine Australian sea water», «harvested from the crystal clear seas on the east coast of Tasmania» or «handcrafted in small batches».

The Complete Fly Fisherman is best savored in small bites, especially on early spring days when wind and winter runoff conspire to keep you off the water — where by all rights you should be — and in the library.

Horseback riding on the beach — Winding its way along the border of an endangered pine forest and picturesque Cooper's Castle, the bridle path chosen by Pine Tree stables culminates in a ride along a secluded beach and a dip in the water.

Intervention leads to intervention, as is well known by moms who go in for inductions and wind up with Pitocin, their water broken, an ineffective epidural, a forceps attempt at delivery, an episiotomy, and ultimately a C - section for «emergency» reasons.

Garlic mustard produces large numbers of small seeds that are spread by wind, water, wildlife, and humans.

As described by Sarah Alexander at a June 17th Digital Capital Week presentation, Food and Water Watch followed a strategy that wound online and offline action tightly together to get the best out of both, in part through leveraging the results of a van trip through the states and districts of crucial legislators.

Cuomo urged LIPA to approve an offshore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk and said the state would commit to other offshore projects that would place hundreds of turbines in federal waters off the Long Island coast by 2030.

We have been given a blueprint for an entirely renewable NY State, powered by wind, water, and sunlight, by researchers from Stanford, Cornell, UC Davis, and others.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

He was in Wilson in Niagara County to sign legislation that sends $ 55 million to communities, businesses and homeowners ravaged by Lake Ontario's historic high water levels, as well as for separate wind damage in the Southern Tier.

Hawkins cited a report by a team of engineers and economists led by Prof. Mark Jacobsen of Stanford that makes the case that 100 % renewable energy from wind, water, and solar sources by 2030 in New YorkState is technologically and economically feasible.

«As waves break near the shore, water droplets are blown by the wind and freeze onto subfreezing structures,» Gerth says.

Eloy, a specialist in fluid mechanics, agreed that the equation had something to do with a tree's leaves, not in how they took up water, and the force of the wind caught by the leaves as it blew.

«We try to use continuous ground shaking produced by humans, cars, wind, water and Yellowstone's hydrothermal boilings and convert it into our signal,» Lin says.

In separate surveys, Ulrich, Orians, and others have found that people respond strongly to landscapes with open, grassy vegetation, scattered stands of branchy trees, water, changes in elevation, winding trails, and brightly lit clearings, preferably partly obscured by foliage in the foreground.

But, buffeted by winds and the threat of storm - water flooding, these apartments are subsidized housing, reserved for the poor.

Instead, it may be generated by interactions of water, the solar wind and sand on the comet's surface.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

But laboratory experiments by Hayashi and his colleagues, conducted at the University of Nottingham, UK, have shown that spiders can survive afloat, and can also harness the wind to «sail» on the surface of water bodies.

Unlike natural bridges on Earth, which form largely by erosion from wind and water, these lunar bridges probably formed as a result of an impact in the last billion years, says Mark Robinson, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University in Tempe and principal investigator for LRO's camera.

It is mainly driven by the wind — which pushes water landward — and the low pressure of the storm that causes the water to arch like a convex lens.

Many have sustainability initiatives like buildings powered by wind and recycled water (Celgene), partnering with local Habitat for Humanity projects (Moderna), or volunteering at patient events like the National Veterans Wheelchair Games (BMS).

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

The distinctive waves with capped tops and cloudless troughs are created by what's known as velocity shear, which occurs when a fluid or two different fluids — wind and water, for example — interact at different speeds to create differing pressures at the back and front ends of the wave.