Sentences with phrase «flowing into the sea»

and Buddha compares it to rivers flowing into the sea), (Anguttara - Nikaya, IV, p. 202; Udana, p. 55; Beekh, op.

The Adentan MP also suggested that water, which flows into the sea from the River Volta through Sogakofe and Ada estuary, can be harvested.

The irrigation system was so leaky that many canals lost more than 50 percent of the diverted river water en route to the fields, which cut the amount flowing into the sea.

All over the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from Alaska to the Andes, ice is melting and flowing into the sea.

The researchers multiplied these concentrations by the rivers» water discharge to calculate the total weight of plastic flowing into the sea.

But if the shelf collapses, then glacial ice could flow into the sea unabated and contribute to rising sea levels.

Top: Sea level rises as ice melts and flows into the sea.

Where the Barron river flows into the sea, brown river water mixes with the blue seawater.

It is situated in a quiet area with a beautiful view of the lagoon which flows into the sea.

Next to the beach is the Kinh River where crystal clear water flows into the sea.

The nutrients flow into the sea as plant and animal organic material from rivers and creeks on the mainland and on the caye itself.

Current Lava Update The well established ocean entry has been flowing into the sea consistently since November 24, 2012.

Rivers flowing into the sea from our mountain ranges disperse nutrients which feed algae and make it thrive.

Flowing into the sea directly opposite Puerto Princesa City Baywalk Park, the river runs through a mangrove forest and offers an almost daily ethereal show at dusk; the flight of the fireflies.

Nutrients flow into the sea from plant and animals from nearby rivers and creeks, the nutrients are then broken down into chemical nutrients by bacteria and this enables the reef to thrive and grow.

Ons Huisie By die See is situated on the banks of the Hartenbos River mouth as it flows into the sea.

So is the view of Kilauea's molten hot lava flowing into the sea.

«A conservative estimate is it could take several centuries for all of the ice to flow into the sea.»

More recent work appears to have found more water flowing into the sea from melting mountain glaciers than earlier thought, making up some of the missing mass.]

Michael Lemonick at Climate Central writes on new research finding it's unlikely that the recent surge of ice flowing into the sea from Greenland's glaciers is the new normal (the work syncs with earlier analysis by Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado):

Without the ice shelf, ice will flow into the sea more rapidly.

Researchers measured variations in the composition of fossilized plankton to gauge the amount of ice flowing into the sea over the last 12,000 years.

While efforts are continuing to track down the water flow, the company known as TEPCO is considering installing «silt fence» barriers in areas where radioactive water is suspected to be flowing into the sea, Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the government's nuclear safety agency told a press conference in the morning.

Glaciers that flow into the sea, like the Pine Island Glacier, go through a normal cycle in which the floating section grows, stresses mount, and an iceberg breaks off, Scambos said.

«While no one expects our climate to change in the space of a few days, like the movie, we do know that fresh water flowing into our seas could dramatically affect sea levels and ocean circulation,» said study coauthor Alexander Forryan of the University of Southampton.

Until now, though, most of the focus has been on ice sheet dynamics — how quickly Greenland's glaciers are flowing into the sea.

This is especially the case for coastal waters, where the impact of the water that flows into the sea is huge, not only in terms of weight, but also in terms of the currents they cause.

Warming ocean currents could eat into polar ice - sheets from beneath, increasing the rate at which they flow into the sea, say researchers in a paper out in Nature Geoscience today.

How and where is there increased melt causing super cold ice to flow into the sea?

BPL: A good bit of Greenland or the Antarctic suddenly splits off and flows into the sea.

Pine Island Glacier was once sitting atop this underwater ridge, which slowed its flow into the sea.

There are eight ice caps, and altogether 254 glaciers flow into the sea.

Writers and planners like to call the aging baby boomer generation a «Silver Tsunami,» but the delta of a mighty river where channels branch off as the water flows into the sea might be a better metaphor.

Not exact matches

Cassini was able to probe beneath this moon's cloud cover, discovering rivers flowing into lakes and seas and being replenished by rain.

Moving with the flow, they often use the momentum and direction of moving air mass and sea waves to gently steer their vessels into narrow slips.

Apparently it was on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee, just to the east of the point where the Jordan River flows into the lake.

He left the Qumran community and went north into the wilderness, near to where the Jordan flows into the Dead Sea.

Just how the Christian stream is to relate to the other streams flowing into the global sea may become clearer when, in the next chapter, we acknowledge the phenomenon of relativity.

Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Agean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

In the 1950s about 1.3 billion cubic meters of water a year flowed into the Dead Sea.

Environmental water use over successive years of lower flows has shown significant benefits for the system through the export of excess salt from the river, as well as through the reduction of the amount of salt imported into the Murray Mouth from the sea.

A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.

We started finding the same organisms that people were reporting from deep - sea hydrothermal vents [where hot, mineral - laden fluid flows through volcanic rock into the ocean from deep within the Earth].

The deep grooves under the massive ice sheet could facilitate flow into the ocean, which suggests sea level rise estimates for this century need to be revised upwards

Tributaries flow into it, and it flows out toward a massive sea.

If a tanker splits its hull and dumps oil into the sea, trained teams show up with specialized gear to begin the process of stanching the flow and cleaning up the spill.

Studying surging glaciers could also offer insights into grander - scale ice flows with global consequences: the movements of the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, which can change abruptly, altering the ice discharges that affect sea level.

Larsen C is approximately 350m thick and floats on the seas at the edge of West Antarctica, holding back the flow of glaciers that feed into it.

The results were encouraging: The new «sea water» formed a layer on top of the even saltier Dead Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging sea water» formed a layer on top of the even saltier Dead Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging it.

The impact of the salty, oxygen - rich water that flowed into the Baltic Sea main basin (Baltic Proper) in December 2014 via the Danish straits was still visible in August up to the deep basins east of Gotland.