Sentences with phrase «for ocean island»

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Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

The North Korean army said Wednesday it's examining operational plans for attacking the island, a military hub about 1,500 miles south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean.

Since its founding in 2006 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, SBP has rebuilt homes for more than 1,300 families with the help of 180,000 volunteers in New Orleans; Joplin, MO; Staten Island, NY; Rockaway, NY; Monmouth and Ocean Counties, NJ; San Marcos, TX; Columbia, SC; White Sulphur Springs, WV and Baton Rouge, LA.

(You'll also probably want to take a look at our Rhode Island mortgage guide for information on rates and details about getting a mortgage in the Ocean State.)

Leaving the abbey, re-board your coach and drive south along the east coast of the island for panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and coast en route to idyllic Bathsheba.

It has been told in the Greek, the Latin, the Celtic, and the Teutonic languages and in the tongues of those who for millennia have moved about the islands of the Pacific ocean.»

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Michelin - Starred Chef José Andrés» newest fine dining eatery is open exclusively for dinner and offers resort guests and locals a premium selection of responsibly sourced seafood that pays creative homage to traditional Bahamian cuisine and the ocean that surrounds the islands.

Kona «the area of the Big Island that grows the finest Kona cherries in the world» is a delightful drive along Hualalai's high mountainous backdrop narrow winding Cliff side passages dressed with breathtaking tropical blooms that cascade for 30 miles down the valley's of our beautiful ocean coastline.

His love for the ocean takes him to the San Pedro area as well as Catalina Island several times a month.

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Before taking the helm at The Gates, Bour was the Executive Chef of Ocean House Management, a boutique luxury hotel based in Rhode Island where he led culinary operations for the hotel's two restaurants, four outdoor dining venues and banquets.

Wie, playing in her tour's season - opening Pure Silk - Bahamas LPGA Classic, made her first eagle of the new year with a hole - out for a 3 on the par - 5 11th hole at the Ocean Club Golf Course on Paradise Island.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

As we watch the oceans for the devastation that Marie may bring to the islands, I'm looking very hard to find the rainbow that will happen following that storm.

Drilling for oil in Long Island Sound and nearby Atlantic Ocean waterways would be catastrophic for environmental and economic reasons, dozens of speakers told federal officials at a hearing organized by Rep. Lee Zeldin, who opposes offshore drilling.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Dan Donovan hosts Department of Homeland Security and FEMA officials for a school safety roundtable with the NYC Department of Education and NYPD, Michael J. Petrides Education Complex, 715 Ocean Terrace, Building H, Staten Island.

In addition to previously scheduled and announced nighttime resurfacings of New Dorp Lane, Ocean Terrace and Arthur Kill Road, the DOT outlined upcoming paving plans for some of the Island's primary and secondary roads.

At 6 p.m., the NYC Department of Education Panel for Educational Policy meets, NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina is scheduled to attend, Michael J. Petrides Complex, 715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island.

At 6 p.m., the NYC Panel for Educational Policy holds a public meeting, Michael J. Petrides School, 715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island.

But the best use of this major funding for Long Island would be a significant outlay toward the $ 550 - million cost of an ocean outfall pipe for the Bay Park sewage treatment plant.

Add all this to Donovan's strong electoral track record and the ocean of goodwill he has enjoyed with Island voters for years, and the Democrats will have a tough roe to hoe against Donovan next year, even with the Garner case on his docket.

At 4 months old, the pups are weaned and begin a voyage from the Pribilof Islands of Alaska through the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean that can last for 20 months before they return to the iIslands of Alaska through the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean that can last for 20 months before they return to the islandsislands.

Save for a trio of researchers who made their North Pole trek double as a march for science, the honor of the farthest north march today was held by the small Norwegian research village: Ny - Ålesund, on the island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

The Falkland Islands and surrounding South Atlantic Ocean are teeming with fish, birds, and opportunities for scientific collaboration, according to a letter published this month in Science & Diplomacy, a quarterly publication from AAAS.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the British government expelled the entire population of the small Indian Ocean archipelago, then promptly leased the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, to the United States for a military air base.

When magma erupted from a crack in the ocean floor off El Hierro, the youngest, westernmost island, local volcanologist Vicente Soler headed out to sea, looking for answers.

Just last year, Iliffe traveled to Christmas Island, a remote spot in the Indian Ocean, for a high - profile, National Geographic - funded expedition to discover life in the island's underwater caves, and in particular to find a small crustacean called a remIsland, a remote spot in the Indian Ocean, for a high - profile, National Geographic - funded expedition to discover life in the island's underwater caves, and in particular to find a small crustacean called a remisland's underwater caves, and in particular to find a small crustacean called a remipede.

Nautilus Minerals plans to continue searching for additional commercially viable deposits of copper, gold, zinc, and silver outside of Fiji, Tonga, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and in the western part of the Pacific Ocean.

The ancestors of hobbits probably left the rift area of Africa (Ardi's home) for Southeast Asia on foot about 2 million years ago, ultimately crossing treacherous ocean waters to land on the narrow, 230 - mile - long Indonesian island of Flores.

The world's oceans are currently in the midst of the third major die off — termed bleaching by scientists — ever recorded and the hot waters around Christmas Island have been dealing with the heat for months.

Instead they talk of how for the next nine months and nine days they drifted across the Pacific Ocean all the way to the Marshall Islands, where a Taiwanese fishing trawler found them.

But time - area closures are too intrusive for the Big Island's visitors, says Jim Coon, president of Hawaii's Ocean Tourism Association in Maui.

Based on what we know, we can expect the rapid ice loss to continue for a long time yet, especially if ocean - driven melting of the ice shelf in front of Pine Island Glacier continues at current rates,»

«The Saint Francois Mountains in southeastern Missouri have been the focus of geological research for decades and were once islands in the Cambrian ocean,» said Kevin Shelton, professor of geological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science.

The pulses of growth match cooling periods documented in ocean sediment cores and in the continuous cores from Iceland and Baffin Island, suggesting that glaciers have responded in sync across the North Atlantic for at least the past 4,000 years, the authors write.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.

The threats are particularly severe for those species that live on islands scattered across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, which is most of them — 53 of the 65 species of flying fox are island - dwellers.

While it may be improbable that a colony of spiders survived a journey of 10,000 kilometers across the Indian Ocean, that is the most likely explanation for how the trapdoor spiders got to Kangaroo Island, the researchers conclude.

The longest - lasting island braved the ocean waves for 17 years; the shortest, which was composed of ultralight pumice, lasted but three weeks.

Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf in Antarctica and may be the culprit for increased melting of other ice shelves, according to an international team of researchers.

Honnavalli Kumara at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History in Coimbatore, India, and colleagues followed 20 Nicobar long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis umbrosus) on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.

But on New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach, the sound of chattering teeth will fill the air, as thousands of people gather in preparation for a ceremonial wintry dip in the Atlantic Ocean.

These findings are relevant for sustainable development for other small island developing states that are likely to feel a significant impact from changes to the ocean.

«But when the MH370 search area was moved to the southern Indian Ocean, scientists from Curtin's Centre for Marine Science and Technology decided to recover the IMOS acoustic recorders located west of Rottnest Island.

This study may have implications particularly for our understanding of the long term evolution of intraplate volcanic ocean islands and sheds lights on the interacting processes occurring during growth and collapse of volcanic edifices.

The island, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice struisland, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice struIsland in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice structure.

Rainer Lohmann at the University of Rhode Island did a rough calculation for New Scientist and estimated that PCB levels would only rise above normal ocean concentration within 1 kilometre of the ships and are unlikely to harm marine life even in that area.