Sentences with phrase «from sea»

The first 200 explosions, providing a combined yield equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT, would lift the ship from sea level to 125,000 feet.

In short, we may feel disqualified, slightly patronised and perhaps also suspicious; remembering, as for instance we might, promises of free electricity from sea water.

According to conventional geologic theory, the Panamanian Isthmus didn't emerge from the sea until just a few million years ago.

Now a US team has revisited a technique pioneered in the 1990s, to more than double the uranium that can be extracted from the sea.

It can be reached only from the sea along an underwater passage.

Over the years, her team has shown that it's responsible for 5 % of global photosynthesis and depends on an estimated 80,000 genes distributed among hundreds of strains to thrive in nutrient - poor waters ranging from the sea surface to 200 meters down.

«These are the first direct measurements of individual responses for any baleen whale species to these kinds of mid-frequency sonar signals,» said Brandon Southall, SOCAL - BRS chief scientist from SEA, Inc., and an adjunct researcher at both Duke and the University of California Santa Cruz.

Before Kepler launched in 2009, most planet hunters doggedly revealed new exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) one by one, like anglers pulling individual fish from the sea.

Water is drawn from the sea and circulated through the tanks, with the temperature adjusted to prevent the tanks getting too warm in summer and too cold in winter.

Although plant - eaters, the rabbitfish accidentally scoop up marine animals from the sea floor while feeding.

«Restoring populations of animals to their former bounty could help to recycle phosphorus from the sea to land, increasing global stocks of available phosphorus in the future.»

The houses come from sea animals called larvaceans, not exactly a household name.

Additional sensors in the pipe running from the sea floor to the drilling platform were designed to activate the rams if pipe and platform ever separated.

Direct threats also included changes such as coral bleaching, shifting animal and plant life cycles and distributions, and habitat loss from sea level rise.

Until recently, the oldest evidence of life on land was only 2.8 billion years old, whereas the oldest evidence from the sea was 3.7 billion years old.

And indeed the 50 - centimeter - long, eellike creatures can wreak havoc on freshwater communities when they invade from the sea, with a single sea lamprey able to kill 18 kilograms of fish in its lifetime.

Then again, judging by the oh's and ah's of the audience, the evolutionary transition from sea to land — full of expressive amphibian faces peering uncertainly from the muck — may have been a bigger hit.

Totality — when the sun is completely blocked by the moon — will take only 93 minutes to cross from sea to shining sea.

Over the long term, CO2 will continue to increase, bringing growing risks from sea level rise and disruptions to weather patterns.

Crabs and lobsters are drawn to a totally synthetic bait, which could reduce the large take of live baitfish from the sea

Though sturgeon, shad, the Atlantic salmon and other species that travel from sea to river and back again persist at less than 1 percent of their historic levels, dam removal in places like the Kennebec River in Maine has allowed some species to recover, notes biologist John Waldman of Queens College, The City University of New York.

When the animals got hungry, they ripped a marine basket sponge from the sea floor and fitted it over their beaks like a person would fit a glove over a hand.

What the climate models were missing, she said, was the strong brine production from sea ice formation in the Bering Sea.

Floods from the sea can cause overflow or overtopping of flood - defenses like dikes as well as flattening of dunes or bluffs.

Data - loggers installed along a narrow travel pathway from the sea were used to gather accurate data on how much time tagged adult birds spent away from the island and how frequently they returned to feed their chicks.

A flood from sea may be caused by a heavy storm (storm surge), a high tide, a tsunami, or a combination thereof.

Some powerful force had also flipped over several of the house's paving slabs and dumped fine gravel over the walls — but this part of the site lies a quarter of a mile from the sea and far from any stream or river.

«Migration from sea - level rise could reshape cities inland.»

Cod could be fished from the sea in baskets.

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

Sea otters live offshore in forests of kelp — huge, yellow - brown, rubbery seaweed reaching from the sea floor to the surface, like tall trees.

Therefore, the coral would have stopped taking in uranium at the moment it was pulled from the sea.

From sea level changes to the fate of the pika, scientists have given concerned citizens a lot to be concerned about when it comes to climate change.

In summer, the effect reverses with winds bringing relatively cool and moist air from the sea.

In 1992 Iceland stated that it would not house any captive killer whales — refusing one from Sea World in California that year — because they might carry infections that could harm native fish or marine mammals.

Over the oceans, some contain organic or biological ingredients (bacteria, degradation products of microscopic algae) which come from sea spray, others are transported in the air (mineral dust, smoke).

Already, the majority of Malta's water comes from the sea.

The largest is 1.5 kilometres across the rim and rises 700 metres from the sea floor.

«Our new approach is poised to reveal the evolutionary adaptations for countless other environments, from the sea, high altitudes, the desert, or even underground.»

Carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes have a bright future in addressing the world's growing need to purify water from the sea, researchers say in a study published in the journal Desalination.

The largest is 1.5 kilometres across the rim and it rises 700 metres from the sea floor.

Scientists think sudden, violent outflows of the gas from the sea floor might have spiked the planet's temperature about 55 million years ago, and they think the gulf spill affords them the unique opportunity to study an analog in real time.

In June 2006, Chairwoman Mikulski received the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative's (JOCI) report, «From Sea to Shining Sea: Priorities for Ocean Policy Reform,» which recommended robust funding for ocean research, education, observation and exploration.

The group takes its name from the sea - faring hero in Greek mythology.

Japanese archaeologists excavating the cave discovered both a finished and an unfinished fishhook that had been carved and ground from sea snail shells.

Waves surged in from the sea, flooding houses a foot deep and ripping fishing boats from their moorings in the harbor, tossing them high up onto the shore.

Since reverse osmosis is energy - intensive, researchers are looking at cheaper ways to extract water from the sea as well.

These results clearly showed that the vast majority of spiders obtain the vast majority of their energy from the sea.

Some of Alaska's glaciers, in fact, have retreated so far from the sea that they no longer calve.

Alongside them are dozens of smaller competitors, building a menagerie of strange devices that they hope will leapfrog ahead of existing machines in the race to provide inexpensive power from the sea.