Sentences with phrase «caused land around»

The quake in 1762, estimated at magnitude 8.8, caused land around the southeastern city of Chittagong to sink by several meters; in the Sundarbans it seems to have caused at least a 20 - centimeter drop, says Hanebuth.

When continental shifts cause the land around them to crumble, a family of cavemen, women and children are forced out of their cave of safety and solitude — much to the daughter's delight and the father's horror.

Not exact matches

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Cuomo's office announced the landing shortly after it happened on Jan. 11, saying in a press release that the helicopter had «filled with fumes that smelled like smoke» around 4 p.m. while Cuomo and two aides were aboard, and that the cause was under investigation.

Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even more photosynthesis by more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).

With communications lost and fuel quickly running out after Ray inexplicably, unforgivably crashes into an unpiloted aircraft (causing a wing to catch fire), his plane turns around to return to New York but desperately needs a cleared runway on which to land with various gears breaking down.

Causes abound, from the preservation of land and species, to myriad health - related foundations, to the rights and freedom of men and women around the world.

I loved speeding between the floating islands and landmarks near Banga, landing at a quest destination in phenomenal fashion, and causing everything around Kat to fly back from the force of her powers.

The first of these is that instead of ring outs Dead or Alive has an electrified area around each arena that causes a nice explosion, promptly followed by a spasming body flying into the air, if a character happens to unfortunately land upon it.

Land - based ice is melting too, causing the seas to rise and flood coastlines around the world.

The authors conclude that the there is a higher retreat - rate for marine terminating glaciers in the recent warm period; in the 1930s when there is a natural mode of variability active that caused regional temperatures around Greenland to be anomalously warm, there was a higher retreat rate for land - terminating glaciers (the lower retreat rate today is in part because they are currently smaller).

Notorious for... At a recent Scientific Alliance conference, a speaker attributed rises in sea - level around Japan not to climate change but to the machinations of the Japanese pineapple industry, which, it was claimed, is causing land to subside by drilling for too much fresh water.

The thermometer network is made up of a patchwork of non-research quality instruments that were never made to monitor long - term temperature changes to tenths or hundredths of a degree... Furthermore, land - based thermometers are placed where people live, and people build stuff, often replacing cooling vegetation with manmade structures that cause an artificial warming (urban heat island, UHI) effect right around the thermometer.

Cities are warmer than the land around them, so cities cause some warming.

These extra gases are causing the Earth to get warmer, setting off all sorts of other changes around the world — on land, in the oceans, and in the atmosphere.

Around the same time, another mine broke ground on nearby land, causing constant noise and light pollution.

This has been shown repeatedly at http://wattsupwiththat.com/ and in the paper by NOAA scientists http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL026358.shtml showing that when land use changes occur around US climate stations, it causes a warm bias 95 % of the time.

That growth of sea ice could have potentially been caused by the influx of freshwater as glaciers on land melted, or from changes in the winds that whip around the continent (changes that could be linked to warming or the loss of ozone high in the atmosphere).

Decades of research by hundreds of independent scientific and academic institutions around the globe have discovered that human - caused climate change involves forcings such as the radiative forcing of well - mixed greenhouse gases, as well as land cover changes.

Furthermore, land - based thermometers are placed where people live, and people build stuff, often replacing cooling vegetation with manmade structures that cause an artificial warming (urban heat island, UHI) effect right around the thermometer.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

Over the last four years, 340 square miles of wetlands around New Orleans have vanished, causing biologists to call the wetlands around the city the fastest disappearing land mass on the planet.

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