Sentences with phrase «from urbanized»

It is a world away from the urbanized jungles of Phuket.
Anacapa Island, located only about 11 mi (18 km) from the urbanized coast of Southern California, provides critical habitat for seabirds, pinnipeds such as California sea lions, and several endemic plants and animals.
A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

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«Rapidly urbanizing cities in the frontier markets of Africa and Southeast Asia will benefit from favorable demographics, cheap labor and a rising middle class,» said LaSalle's Gordon.
These economies are «starting from an extremely low economic base and have the ability to embrace technology and tap into an increasingly urbanized work force, which can lead to a relatively long period of rapid growth,» Mordy says.
But the growth treadmill in India is daunting — roughly 12 million new jobs must be created each and every year to absorb the Indian youth graduating from schools and the surplus agricultural labour freed up as India modernizes and urbanizes.
Just a guess as to one theory: late votes tend to come from highly urbanized areas (due to the volume of voting that needs counting).
Urbanized spaces seemed to uniquely increase the amount of human - associated microbes, in particular human mouth and gut bacteria from the Streptococcaceae and Lactobacillaceae families.
We took water away from farming in times of drought, and we urbanized land and water at the same time.
«You'd expect animals around a more urbanized estuary, such as Monterey Bay, to have more exposure to oil products from cars or disease elements relative to Big Sur,» says co-author Keith Miles, a geneticist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center.
Making yet another comeback, the boot was spotted on several Fall 2017 runways — from Calvin Klein to Maison Margiela and more — this time more refined and urbanized for the modern - day woman.
In 2013, the United States had 14.8 million students located outside urbanized areas (urban areas defined as 50,000 residents or more), down from 18 million students in 2011.
Authorizes DOT to withhold grants to develop state safety oversight programs from states with programs deemed insufficient, including up to 5 % of a state's apportionment of formula public transportation grants for urbanized areas with a population under 200,000.
About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.
Its capital is the City of Puerto Princesa, but it is governed independently from the province as a highly urbanized city.
The regional term is defined to refer to the more - or-less continuously urbanized area stretching from Ventura County to the southern border of Orange County and from the Pacific Ocean to the Coachella Valley in the Inland Empire.
And finally, Puerto Plata maintains an urbanized feel, and an economy based on something in addition to tourism, whereas newer communities (Punta Cana and SamanĂ¡) are basically modern communities carved from what was wilderness or scrubland, with none of the feelings of urban life that are so deeply engrained within the Dominican consciousness.
While Puerto Princesa is a highly urbanized city governed independently from the province, it provides a good mix of laid - back beach vibes and city comforts.
It is a portrayal of the trajectory of industrial capitalism, from the relics of the boom - to - bust cities in America, to the giant hi - rises in newly urbanizing China.
In Mr. Chambaud's case, the urine is from animals and refers to the Anthropocene or urbanizing human impact on the planet.
Rees collects and re-contextualizes materials from various neighborhoods such as Chinatown and Bushwick to illustrate both the ingenuity and inequality of street life in increasingly urbanized societies.
The work is constructed as a collage of loose travelogue material, found footage and self generated video drawing from the artist's digital archive, ranging from extracts from YouTube user egawauemon's POV steadicam footage of a dense urbanized vision of Japan to the inclusion of artist's own hand held camera work during a visit to Tropical Islands Resort, the artificial paradise based 40 km outside Berlin are layered with a range of material.
Some Chinese entrepreneurs are leaders in seeking sustainable ways to urbanize and stay cool, most notably Zhang Yue, the president of Broad Industrial Group, which has developed a system for quickly assembling buildings from pre-fabricated, and heavily insulated, components.
But 30 new species from a heavily urbanized area is really astounding,» Dr. Brown said.
On the River Model The modeling from almost 10 years ago predicts that this level flood becomes a 10 - percent - likelihood event if the basin becomes widely urbanized.
The United Nations Food Gardens initiative was developed from the premise that community food gardens can serve as an excellent source of local produce while also empowering communities to grow food in an increasingly urbanizing world.
The successful spread of invasive species, such as the migration of coyotes from the wild into urbanized areas, is driving some conservationists to rethink their science and strategies, according to a report in Salon.
Indeed, if we use NASA's satellite measurements of the average night - time city lights as an estimate of the amount of urbanization in the area, then we can see from Figure 31 that the station is right in the middle of a very heavily urbanized area.
They are tired of lack of recognition of farming in the economy from an increasingly urbanized society.
The United Nations projects India's population to continue to become more urbanized; about 45 % of the Indian population will live in urban areas by 2040, an increase of nearly 12 percentage points from 2015.
If they are only going from 1950 to 2010 and taking areas that were already urbanized at the initiation of the evaluation, it isn't difficult to imagine scenarios where lighter building materials and a reduction in soot more than counteracted any growing UHI effect.
Other notable PHA - detected adjustments are minimum (and more modest maximum) temperature shifts associated with a widespread move of stations from inner city rooftops to newly - constructed airports or wastewater treatment plants after 1940, as well as gradual corrections of urbanizing sites like Reno, Nevada.
In the rapidly urbanizing «third» world, that property, as well as exploitation of a local rather than an imported energy source, is driving its use and avoiding of some of the effects from coal burning in and around many Asian urban centers much in the news lately.
From 2006 to 2011, the average number of miles driven per resident fell in almost three - quarters of America's largest urbanized areas for which up - to - date and accurate data are available.
Here's why the study helps invigorate the case for more urbanized, sustainable living.First, the simple transit benefits of living in a city: (from the Environmental News Service)
«The fact that Trout Brook receives so much stormwater from this highly urbanized area and treats it before it goes into the Mississippi is very important.»
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