Sentences with phrase «covered by a continent»

The South Pole is covered by a continent the size of the United States.

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In the tenth century, when the original European forests began to be converted to farmland and pasturage, ninety percent of the entire continent was covered by trees; today only twenty percent of these trees remain (Myers 1979, 121).

Such broadcast satellites could cover a continent or a large country with usable signals, or by directional antennas could aim their signals at smaller countries.

The Antarctic ice sheet, the thick layer of ice covering much of the continent, is anchored in place by its floating fringe, shelves of ice that jut out into the surrounding ocean.

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Crowther and his colleagues merged these approaches by first gathering data for every continent except Antarctica from various existing ground - based counts covering about 430,000 hectares.

[6] According to Macdougall (2004), Charpentier and Venetz disapproved of the ideas of Agassiz who extended their work claiming that most continents were once covered by ice.

How the island continent's wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a variety of forms — the eucalypt, where once the continent was covered in a dense rainforest.

By tracking the migration journeys of various birds your children will be able to learn and name the countries, continents and oceans that are crossed and the vast distances these animals cover.

Land Cruisers can be found on every continent on Earth, crossing the Sahara alongside camel trains and climbing snow - covered volcanos in Iceland chased by dog sleds.

Its global reach covers eight countries across four continents and is supported by over 40,000 employees.

The stocks available for trading on the instrument are arranged by continent, country and exchange, covering the most famous names

The stocks available for trading on the new instrument are arranged by continent, country and exchange, covering some of the most famous company names around the world.

Camera: Jakob Solbakken Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen Cover photo: From «3 Continents» (2010) by Nástio Mosquito Produced by: Christian Lund and Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017

The infographics cover just about every angle of flag design you could imagine, comparing things like the most used symbol, the most used color, the symbolism of colors depicted, the most common flag layouts, a continent - by - continent look at flag details, mashups of different flags, and even what the world flag might look like.

The photographs were made by over 280 photographers from 28 nations who have covered conflict on six continents over 165 years, from the Mexican - American War in 1846 through present - day conflicts.

A qualitychecked database of snow - related parameters is being established covering the northern part of the Eurasian continent for further use by the scientific community.

There are larger areas of the continent getting covered by this heat, which is a salient point when you are working out bushfire conditions.»

The increased summer temperatures in Europe in HadAM3a were caused by reduced cloud cover at higher resolution (Jones 1999) and warming and drying, in summer, was seen over all extra-tropical continents (Stratton, 1999b).

They also explain how the «sea ice extent around Antarctica» is very different from the sea ice in the Arctic because the Arctic is not covered by land, but by ocean, albeit mostly frozen most of the time, whereas Antarctica is a vast continent covered by massive ice sheets with the South Pole at its center.

Boiling seas, continents being covered by those same boiling seas, and all the rest of the Venusian tipping point fantasy.

[See comparison map below] The Antarctic landmass is entirely covered by an immense, thick glacier, and this entire continent (consisting of land and glacier) is surrounded by ocean waters that freeze to form sea ice.

The continent itself will not be affected by global warming.However, the ice sheet that covers 98 % of the continent — 90 % ofthe earth's store of ice — which holds 70 % of the earth's freshwater, is threatened by global warming.

While the South Pole is covered by a huge continent, the North Pole is covered by the Arctic Ocean.

The ice sheet that covers eastern Antarctica grew, but only by about 14 billion tons — not nearly enough to offset the losses from the layer that covers the western portion of the continent and the Antarctic Peninsula.

But the researchers delivered an alarming message to the UN Secretary - General about a potential environmental catastrophe that could raise sea levels by six metres if an ice sheet covering a fifth of the continent crumbles.

Rather, in addition to massive ice sheets covering the continents, parts of the planet (especially ocean areas near the Equator) could have been draped only by a thin, watery layer of ice amid areas of open sea.

In case you haven't heard, on August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to solar eclipse with the «path of totality», where the sun is totally covered by the moon, stretching from Oregon all the way across the continent down to South Carolina.

This amazing company has an aim to enable social and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa by covering more than 20 countries by 2019, making a long - term contribution to the continent...