Sentences with phrase «from land and ocean»

We prefer this result since it was based on a comprehensive analysis using extensive proxy data from both land and ocean in combination with an ensemble of climate model simulations, in a paper focused entirely on LGM cooling.

A note of caution: To avoid erroneous ice concentration along coasts (satellite signal mixed from land and ocean), near coastal - areas have to be excluded.

Three billion people depend on protein from fish, but global ocean biodiversity is suffering due to pollution from land and ocean activities.

Historical observations collected from both land and oceans provide a vital resource for climatologists, who can obtain a better understanding of past weather from such records.

This is particularly true for communities such as those in the Torres Strait which rely on traditional harvest from the land and oceans, and small crops.

Not exact matches

It's an emergency surgical intervention meant to undo damage caused by human activity both in the oceans and on dry land, and it has been shown to work — bringing dead reef sections back from the edge in just a few years.

RW: Have studies proved to the federal government that products from the Kinder Morgan pipeline can be safely transported both on land and on the ocean?

@islamistheanswer, Sure, while the poster seems to think that «parting» means the Big Bang, to me it seems silly to think that the Big Bang would come after heaven and already exist and likely was just and rationalization of where land came from, i.e. splitting the oceans from the sky.

There is no way in Hell (which there is one) you can convince any logical thinking person (myself included) that my ancestors crawled out of the ocean and somehow magically grew arms and legs from nothing and decided to live on land just «because».

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

Homosexual relationships are unnatural as is lying, envy, jealousy, anger, swearing, injustice, irritability, gluttony, drunkenness, rudeness, bullying, torture, theft, pride, foolishness, slander, self embellishment, ignoring the poor, destitute, widows, the lonely, thirsty, hungry and naked, servitude, slavery, low wages, exploitation, pornography, pollution of the atmosphere, drinking water, the oceans and land, greed, licentiousness, unprincipled actions etc. all these things separate us from the love of Christ and therefore stop us from being Christ like.

Founded on the philosophy of sourcing and serving naturally grown and ethically raised food products, this cuisine seeks to be true to the ingredients with respect for the oceans and land from which they came.

The secret to Laphroaig is that it benefits from the happy circumstances of where it is produced — next to ocean water and on land that gives Laphroaig a unique peaty taste.

Dolphins and crocodiles now live in rivers and oceans, but each evolved from land - based animals.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

Most sea - level rise comes from water and ice moving from land into the ocean, but the melting of floating ice causes a small amount of sea - level rise, too.

The study found that more than 4.8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the oceans from land each year, and that figure may be as high as 12.7 million metric tons.

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

The soil from deserts and dry lands is key to the health of the world's oceans, as it is the most important source of iron and other nutrients.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

But current evidence suggests that plastic pollution is as prevalent in land and freshwater ecosystems as it is in the oceans, where it's found «from the equator to the poles,» says Rochman, author of a separate commentary on the state of plastic pollution research published in the April 6 Science.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

He said: «The warmer, wetter winters predicted for the future will result in more phosphorus transferred from agricultural land into the rivers and ultimately the oceans.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

Water contaminated by the oil currently leaking into the ocean from the Sanchi tanker collision is likely to take at least three months to reach land, and if it does the Korean coast is the most likely location.

In all, the researchers used a set of mathematical models to reveal that today animals only have about 6 % of their former capacity to move such nutrients away from «hot spots» and across the oceans and land.

Plastic marine litter has its origins in both land - and ocean - based sources, from untreated sewage and industrial and manufacturing sites to ships and oil and gas platforms.

They began by looking at all debris entering the ocean from land, sea and other pathways.

«These storms have a moderating effect on land temperatures as they bring maritime air from the oceans to the continents and a lack of them can thus favor extreme temperatures.»

This capability along with the satellite's Ocean and Land Colour Instrument will help to map carbon emissions from burnt biomass and to assess damage and estimate recovery of burned areas.

The major influences on ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river transport of material eroded from land into the ocean).

Weiss - Penzias and his colleagues are still working to trace the path of toxic mercury from ocean waters to fog to land to animals, and on up the food chain.

Now researchers are finding that the mercury, picked up from ocean water, is being deposited on land and accumulating in animals, from spiders to mountain lions.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

Washington, which produces farmed oysters, clams and mussels, is particularly vulnerable to acidification, for two reasons: seasonal, wind - driven upwelling events bring low - pH waters from the deep ocean towards the shore, and land - based nutrient runoff from farming fuels algal growth, which also lowers pH.

Pollution of the ocean by runoff from the land and the fouling of the air with carbon dioxide (which is warming the ocean and acidifying it) are accelerating and expanding the threats to the world's coastal waters.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

A new study shows that these whales and outsized land mammals — as well as seabirds and migrating fish — played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients from ocean depths and spreading them across seas, up rivers, and deep inland, even to mountaintops.

Most important, it relies on the first published results from the latest generation of so - called Earth System climate models, complex programs that run on supercomputers and seek to simulate the planet's oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere.

Although roughly 15 percent of the world's oceans overlie continental margins, these bands suffer from the logistical drawbacks of land and deep sea: inconveniently deep water and uncomfortably complex terrain.

These same clouds are vital in the movement of large amounts of sulfur from the oceans to land, making the production of DMSP and DMS a critical step in the global sulfur cycle.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

Launching on four legs, the pterosaur would have flapped its wings till it caught these small pockets of warm air rising from ocean or hot land, and then coasted easily on these for several hours.

Lal calculates that land - use changes such as these have stripped 70 billion to 100 billion tons of carbon from the world's soils and pumped it into the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and lakes since the dawn of agriculture.

A land - ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made the planet habitable.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

«We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean,» said lead author J.T. Reager of JPL, who began the research project as a UCI graduate student.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.