Sentences with phrase «for arid»

This is especially important for arid regions, such as some portions of North America (Svoboda et al. 2002; Dai 2011).

This was COMPETE, a «Competence Platform on Energy Crop and Agroforestry Systems for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems — Africa».

Translating the probable climate outlook in the region as predicted by ICPAC's climate outlook forum into a regional food security outlook in response to food security risk through: Development of climate related crop thresholds for arid and semi-arid areas and quantified skills of the food security outlook.

Differences in extreme precipitation estimates are greater for arid regions than humid regions, and for lower latitudes than higher latitudes.

The imagery is set in the Western part of the United States, known for its arid and stony landscapes with desert flora, such as cacti and tumbleweeds.

The gulf coast offers sports opportunities aplenty, including golf and windsurfing, while the region around Dubai is worth exploring for its arid desert landscape, ancient villages and the eastern rocky range of the Hajjar Mountains.

The California gray whale, by the way, is also known as the desert whale, which I thought was appropriate for the Arid Lands Newsletter!

When they need to recover from stress, smog, or something stronger, West Coasters head for arid climes.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

For arid cities in the future, the mortality risk increases by 2.4 percent.

The scheme could also work for the arid Australian outback, the team reports.

The islands are notable for their distance from the Ecuadoran mainland and for their arid volcanic terrain, which produced the Galápagos's most striking and fortuitous distinction: the relative absence of people (and other predators).

«Using treated graywater for irrigation is better for arid environments.»

He shared their distaste for the arid philosophy — of religion which had issued in Deism, which postulated a God who had created the world but who had little continuing interest in it.

Not exact matches

The ecosystems of tropical forests possess an enormously complex biodiversity which is almost impossible to appreciate fully, yet when these forests are burned down or levelled for purposes of cultivation, within the space of a few years countless species are lost and the areas frequently become arid wastelands.

Many of the sciences need new models both for their separate work arid for their relation to one another.

For he has sent to us in Babylon saying, «Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens arid eat their produce.»

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

It is one among many theological alternatives presented in the Old Testament, and it is the constant critique arid corrective that these perspectives provide in relation to one another which make the Scriptures such a rich resource for the church.

Plato, of course, knew this well, arid we need only read the Phaedrus to remind ourselves that, for him, philosophy, love of wisdom, is sublimated eros.

Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves arid for your children.

Since nothing is «outside» God and since he is the chief explanatory principle in arid for all things, although the fact of creaturely freedom demonstrates that he is not the only one, it would be absurd to speak of his «intruding» or «intervening» in his world.

One should not forget that this metaphysics is not some arid self - indulgent speculation but, as the preface for the fourth Eucharistic prayer states: «[God]... made all that is, so that you might fill your creatures with blessings and bring joy to many of them by the glory of your light.»

Yet I am convinced that there are areas that lie between the camps and belong to no camps... certain mountaintops, for example, certain islands in the middle of swamps, certain arid strips where human beings may not find it worth their while to live.

Rather, it is to work honestly and lovingly with that growing body of righteous Christians who look to Judaism as to an older sibling, who are seeking to expiate Christian guilt for the Holocaust, and who recognize that Christianity and Judaism need each other desperately if religion in 21st - century America is to offer a compelling alternative to unbridled consumerism, self - centeredness and arid secularism.

The particular value of this approach for a Christian theology of religions is that it recognizes truth in the convictions of these other traditions in the terms concretely stated arid believed by those within those traditions, and it recognizes their status as true alternatives to Christian faith.

If we view the developments in and around the Council Vatican II, we can notice how the project of going back to the resources (resourcement) constituted an important force for the renewal in theology that had turned arid through exaggerated ratiocination and speculation.

The prophetic literature deals with guilt arid punishment, reality and unreality, present and future of the Israelite people as chosen by God for a special and unique service, the declaration of the great and moving contemporary events in the world as part of a process which, together with the future issue of that process, is willed by God.2

Unlike their Florida counterparts — which are said to be more suitable for juices — most believe California navels are the best for eating by hand, partly because the warm, arid climate in which they are grown tend to produce more blemish - free fruit.

Morocco's sunshine and arid climate, as well as the abundance of olive oil, have provided the perfect conditions for the development of harissa.

For example, the combination of a peat pot and a loose mix might work well in humid areas, but could dry out too quickly in arid environments.

One of the primary benefits of hydroponic gardens is that it requires approximately five percent of the water required for conventional farming, which makes it particularly attractive to chile growers in arid climates.

There is little scientific evidence demonstrating organic agriculture's potential for combating desert - ification but several practical examples of organic agriculture systems in arid areas show how organic agriculture can help bring degraded lands back to fertility.

For agricultural businesses the region with the highest proportion using feed supplements was Tropics (34 %) followed by Semi Arid (30 %)(see map below).

It is call planning for the future.Let's get them now as in summer they will be way more expensive and get arid of the dead wood in summer so we just have to focus in another CB.

In some arid areas of Australia and India, it might be advisable for the touring golfer to carry a small broom in his bag.

References Almroth SG, Bidinger P. No need for water supplementation for exclusively breastfed infants under hot and arid conditions.

Last week, it found itself at odds with the Institute for Fiscal Studies on this very point, in an arid war over methodologies.

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes explained how he went campaigning in Barnsley and joked how he helped to win 12 votes there, but added it was not a seat his party was likely to win, saying it was an «arid desert» for the party.

Yet in cool, arid conditions, such as dry caves, excreted feces can preserve bacterial DNA for centuries.

The northern sub-species, for its part, is likely to encounter more extreme arid conditions that could shrink its overall distribution area during remissions.

Aardvark burrows: a potential resource for animals in arid and semi-arid environments.

«As many government authorities are establishing new guidelines, the results of this study reinforce the recommendations to treat graywater before reusing for irrigation, particularly in arid regions.»

«Our cooling technology can be easily tailored for all types of weather conditions, from humid climate in the tropics to arid climate in the deserts.

There, on an arid patch of land surrounded by ancient mesas, was my destination: Spaceport America, the world's first complex built solely for commercial space exploration.

IN ARID regions, fog catchers can provide much needed water for drinking or crops.

The lack of water for quality irrigation throughout this arid region results in farmers using contaminated waters, leading to health risks from contaminated potatoes eaten locally or shipped to outlying areas.

Using NASA rain and vegetation data, researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green, and for the first time anticipate if zebras will make the trek or, if the animals find poor conditions en route, understand why they will turn back.

By 2100, arid cities like Phoenix will become hotbeds for heatwaves compared to their rural surroundings, while cities on the eastern seaboard will be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs.

Build a large enough structure — say, a tube a thousand feet or longer on the shore or in the sea itself — and you could provide freshwater for an increasingly arid planet, which could quite literally change the world.