Sentences with phrase «from near the ocean»

Located hundreds of miles inland from the nearest ocean, the Midwest is unaffected by North Atlantic hurricanes.

The evidence for this behavior was captured by wildlife film maker John Downer, who, in his documentary Dolphins: Spies in the Pod, witnessed a group of young dolphins snag a puffer fish from near the ocean floor and begin to pass it around.

Without a wind or convection to mix the air, the only way water vapor escapes from near the ocean - air interface is by diffusion, which is very slow.

Not exact matches

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

Despite the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year — which Avery says the company has almost completely recovered from — the nation is still demanding shrimp from oceans near U.S. borders.

Vital Proteins Marine Collagen is made from the scales of 100 % fresh wild - caught snapper from the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii using sustainable harvesting.

And I live near the beach (I can actually see the ocean from my living room) so Jonas and I have been relaxing at the beach some days bringing a little lunch picnic, yay!

Near Santa Rosa in southern Sonoma County, its hills rise like terrestrial waves from the ocean... Today's News: Progress on Winegrape Exemption from FSMA's Produce Safety Rule The Senate Committee -LSB-...]

Bragg Certified Organic Sea Kelp comes from pristine Atlantic Ocean waters near Iceland.

In fact, from each ocean view room balcony hotel guests can observe the near constant clutch of surfers hanging ten — a quintessentially Californian vista, especially as they are silhouetted at dusk against the orange, red and otherwise polychromatic backdrop of the setting sun.

Suspicions that Saturn's icy moon Enceladus harbors an internal ocean — one that could host life — have hardened into near certainty with exquisitely precise observations from the Cassini spacecraft.

Divers from the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica monitor heated panels, designed to mimic ocean warming, on the seabed near Adelaide Island.

The additional warming caused a near - doubling of melt rates in the twenty - year period from 1995 to 2015 compared to previous times when the same blocking and ocean conditions were present.

We are seeing nitrate pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and a lot of our coastal oceans near the mouth of rivers that are downstream from Big Ag production regions that use a lot of fertilizers.

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

The oceans near Antarctica that absorb carbon and protect our planet from climate change have been working robustly in the past decade, finds a new study published yesterday in Science.

Seen from below, its belly glows with blue light, making it difficult to distinguish against the backdrop of sunlight coming from the ocean's surface — except for a small dark band near its mouth.

Schneider: When you're covering climate change, you don't get somebody from a deep ecology group to tell you we're near the end of the world and then somebody from the Competitive Enterprise Institute who's going to tell you carbon dioxide is a fertilizer while forgetting about ocean acidification.

To take a closer look at these processes, a team led by scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory installed an array of seismometers on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, near the center of the Pacific Plate.

They interpreted the deposits were formed on land, not in the ocean, by identifying the presence of geyserite — a mineral deposit formed from near boiling - temperature, silica - rich, fluids that is only found in a terrestrial hot spring environment.

From windswept deserts to the ocean near Key Largo, some parts of our planet are surprisingly similar to other worlds.

Additionally, the city is testing duck bill - shaped valves on drainage pipes near the ocean that prevent ocean water during high tides from flowing backward into basements and parking lots.

But it is unclear how much residual radioactive contamination is still entering the sea from leaks around the Fukushima plant, says Scott Fowler, a marine ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York who has been involved in previous assessments of contamination levels in the ocean near Fukushima.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

Co-author of the study Dr Wim Degruyter, from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our current understanding tells us that hot magma can be injected from Earth's lower crust into colder surroundings near the surface.

This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than in the open ocean, but also because fish are much more abundant near the coastal shelf, due to coastal upwelling and the abundance of nutrients available there.

For much of the global ocean the coarser resolution is okay, but when you are studying a unique location like the Gulf of Maine, with its complex bathymetry of deep basins, channels, and shallow banks combined with its location near the intersection of two major ocean current systems, the output from the coarser models can be misleading.»

After convening a commission of experts from various disciplines to report on the state of U.S. oceans, his administration took steps to protect 215 million acres of biologically rich deep sea ocean habitat in the Pacific near Hawaii and Guam.

If so, she suspects that the liquid could eventually weaken the crust beneath the Atlantic Ocean near the continent's edge, causing it to break off from North America and sink back into the mantle.

Looking through the portholes of the submersible ALVIN near the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1979, American scientists saw for the first time chimneys, several meters tall, from which black water at about 300 degrees and saturated with minerals shot out.

Surprise find The team's actual mission was to survey ocean currents near the Ross Ice Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samples.

Most modern sharks migrate from the open ocean to near shore to lay eggs or give birth.

Vineyards planted at higher altitudes or near the ocean — such as those in Oregon and Washington and in Argentina's Mendoza Province — will be less affected by rising temperatures and may continue to benefit from the warming trend.

A spectrogram of ocean sounds records a tremor from an underwater volcano near Japan.

The archipelago stretches over 1200 kilometres of ocean, so the climate ranges from near - Arctic to almost subtropical, with a corresponding range of vegetation — from tundra in the north to dense forest in the south.

The finding, in combination with evidence from previous studies, suggests that these molten regions deep below, near the core - mantle boundary of the Earth, may cause basaltic ocean island chains to form along the surface.

In the United States, there have been environmental protests in states like New Jersey, where a company is planning to pipe CO2 from a coal plant to a storage spot in the ocean near Atlantic City.

To test how much these looping ocean highways might be buoying young turtles away from their hatching sites, the researchers first designed a computer simulation of ocean conditions near the turtle beach between 2000 and 2008.

Near Big Sur, Calif., GPS tracking documented a condor corridor from Anderson Peak to the Pacific Ocean in a canyon where Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) maintains a three - mile power line.

A low - altitude flow of warm, moist air from an ocean area combined with a flow of cold, dry polar air high up creates maximum instability, which means that parcels of air heated near the surface rise rapidly, creating powerful updrafts.

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

Unexplained volcanic events have been occurring on or near Heard Island, an uninhabited Australian possession in the southern Indian Ocean about 1600 kilometres from Antarctica.

Roth asks, «Do the vents extend down to a subsurface ocean or are the ejecta simply from warmed ice caused by friction stresses near the surface?»

FULL - BLOWN FALLOUT Remnant radiation levels from nuclear testing near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as seen in this explosion in 1946, are far higher than previously predicted, new research shows.

Insiders say the most vulnerable are the National Accelerator Centre near Cape - town, home to a number of particle accelerators, including a powerful cyclotron used for medical, biological and physical research; Mossgas, the multi-billion rand project set up to beat oil sanctions by pumping natural gas ashore from beneath the Indian Ocean; and the Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand.

Most marine fishes have a pelagic larval stage that drifts in the surface or near - surface currents of the ocean — an environment very different from the one they inhabit as adults.

Some of this naturally released methane comes from the ocean, a phenomenon that has long puzzled scientists because there are no known methane - producing organisms living near the ocean's surface.

Several sites on the near side sampled by Apollo astronauts had rocks enriched with KREEP — for potassium (K), rare earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P)-- which resists crystallization from magma and hence remains in a molten state until the entire magma ocean has solidified.

When the Loop Current interacts with the shelf slope near the Dry Tortugas it can set the entire shelf in motion, bringing new nutrients onto the shelf from the deeper ocean.

The higher sea level near the western ocean boundary creates a west - east pressure difference in the ocean, that results in the equatorial undercurrent flowing from west to east below the surface.