Sentences with phrase «changes as the island»

The scenery changes as the island's mountains come into better view.

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While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

In the states of California, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and West Virginia, employers are not allowed to record sounds, voices or videos for monitoring purposes in areas designated for comfort, health and security of the employees such as restrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms.

Shares of Long Blockchain Corp. — previously known as Long Island Iced Tea Corp. — have doubled since the beverage maker turned blockchain investor changed its name to include the technology underpinning currencies such as bitcoin.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

Kammas says much has changed in the island nation as it adjusts to post-crisis reality, with banks focusing on domestic business.

El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that focuses on social justice, education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans on the island view as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.

Shares of The Long Island Iced Tea Corporation soared as much as 432 % pre-market Thursday morning after the company said it would change it's name t...

Several others, including a biotech firm that changed its name to Riot Blockchain, Long Island Iced Tea which changed its name to Long Blockchain, and Hong Kong - based UBI Blockchain have all seen stocks surge as a direct result of their newfound allegiance with crypto tech.

Although the relative isolation and the low geographic mobility of their island may have sheltered them somewhat from the winds of social change, the study shows that families on Kauai were experiencing the same stresses as American families generally.

Or to change the metaphor, what we see as islands separated in an expanse of ocean are all connected under the ocean.

Founded in 1987, the company — first known as Rock Island Baking Co., it changed to Nancy's Pies a year later, and then Hill and Valley in 2005 — specialized in four - inch diameter pies.

Turns out climate change is a force in developing the Tasmanian industry as warmer weather leads mainland producers to invest in the island's cooler climate.

Because of the value of spices, Christopher Columbus, searching for a water route to these very islands as well as India, changed the history.

Schneiderman's campaign has made choice a signature focus, using it as a cudgel with which to smash his GOP / Conservative opponent, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is personally pro-life, but insists he won't actively seek to change state law in this arena the way attorneys general have done in other states.

The Rikers Island closure, which Lippman's panel recommended a year ago and de Blasio reversed course in agreeing to, could be hastened further if Albany enacts changes to the criminal court system, such as ending cash bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, speeding the disclosure of trial evidence known as discovery, and reducing trial delays.

Flanagan in May had pledged to push for SAFE Act changes after he replaced fellow Long Island Republican Dean Skelos as the majority leader, who stepped down following a corruption arrest.

Speaking at a City Hall press conference with fellow Staten Island Republican and Council Member Joe Borelli, Malliotakis pledged to appoint a commission within 60 days of taking office, with a goal of producing changes to the complex property tax system in the City that's widely viewed as uneven and inequitable.

The city budgeted $ 60 million in FY17 for the project, according to a spokesperson, and de Blasio said, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.

But though I believe in redemption and realize Aires Correira may be a changed man, I found the wording in David Soares» letter to the Rhode Island Parole Board, as quoted by the Troy Record, troubling.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Adam Haber, who unsuccessfully attempted to unseat Republican Sen. Jack Martins in 2014, views the race for the ninth senate district as a changing point for Long Island.

Taking questions after his speech to the Reform thinktank, Mr Fox said: «Those in politics on the other side of the world can huff and puff but it will not change our resolve politically to retain the independence and the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands nor to come to their defence and to maintain deterrence as best we can.

«As we're discussing disclosure certainly I think there's going to be robust changes to the requirements of legislators in terms of disclosure,» Skelos, a Long Island Republican, told reporters.

Seabrook, a popular but polarizing union leader, accused the de Blasio administration and Ponte of not allowing the union a «seat at the table» in crafting policy to enact changes at Rikers Island — which U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has described as having a persistent «culture of violence» among inmates and correction officers.

Shelter Island town engineer John Cronin characterized the situation as so bad it would «only get worse without some radical changes.»

Introduced by Seabrook as «a man with integrity, a man that brings about the change that is needed in this city,» Jeffries, often mentioned as a possible challenger to de Blasio for the Democratic mayoral nomination in 2017, expressed lukewarm support for the de Blasio's efforts in reforming the island, but chided him for keeping the union out of the process.

He cited a recent Newsday report, which showed that racial and ethnic minorities on Long Island were far more likely than whites to be arrested and incarcerated, as reason to consider an «outside perspective, who will bring about the change that needs to happen.»

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — Karen Dennis grew visibly passionate as she stood before the Civilian Complaint Review Board, insisting something needed to change if police officers hoped to bridge the gap between themselves and the Queens residents they serve.

For residents in high - tax states such as New York and, in particular, very high property tax regions like Long Island, this change will result in many residents paying a great deal more in taxes.

While Mercer declined to comment, Lazio spokesman Barney Keller described the family as «Long Island residents who believe Albany needs sweeping and fundamental change, so they're supporting Rick Lazio for governor.»

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The city's subways are a mess, and changes may soon come to the MTA, as the transit agency unveiled several proposals Thursday to address what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called «the summer of hell.»

Jeffrey Reynolds, executive director of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, praised the package as «a quantum leap forward,» especially the changes to insurance procedures.

But with the election inside of three weeks away, the town hall - style debate at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island firmly established climate change as an outcast issue in the race.

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

He realized that if these birds lived on such similar islands but were slightly different from one another, there could be just one explanation: They had started out as a single species, but over time and with separation they had drifted apart and changed.

Over a 16 - year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

The risks to islands will be showcased on the world stage as delegates convene at the global climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, over the next 10 days.

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

Schlesinger noted that as the ecosystem changed, key nutrients in the soil — such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and various organic elements — accumulated beneath the canopies of the mesquite bushes, forming what he called islands of fertility and starving out the surrounding grasses.

Climate change may spare the inhabitants of some tiny islands as storms can help atolls to swell, although other islands remain at risk

Caribbean island states are already experiencing more intense tropical storms, longer and harsher droughts, and more frequent floods, as a result of climate change.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

Even the seemingly pristine Galápagos Islands, one of the most biologically rich and diverse ecosystems on the planet, face increasing threats as a result of climate change, water pollution, invasive plants and animals and other challenges related to human activities.

But the time could be ripe for that to change, suggests Next Wave's Singapore editor Jennie Wong, as she rounds up the broadcast media training opportunities available in the island - state.

According to Joseph P. Gill, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, impacts associated with sea level rise are already being seen along Maryland's coast, such as the documented loss of islands within the Chesapeake Bay, as well as visible changes to wetland habitats all along Maryland's low - lying eastern shore.

By careful measurements of the population of two species on one tiny island over the course of major weather changes such as El Niño events and droughts, the Grants were able to show that evolutionary changes in beak size and body size can occur in as little as a couple of years.

Spawning, as well as larval and juvenile development, will often occur in different habitats, and little was known about what the impact of changes in those environments is having on fish development, according to Harvey Walsh, a fisheries biologist at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center at the Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island.