Sentences with phrase «great rivers»

Whether you're taking a lazy ride down one of Missouri's three great rivers on a pontoon boat or shooting across the Lake of the Ozarks on your speedboat, Missouri is a boater's paradise.

NEW DELHI — A joint Indian - Chinese team plans to chart remote Himalayan glaciers that scientists fear are rapidly melting because of global warming, threatening the great rivers that give life to one of South Asia's most fertile regions.

As a white water kayaker, he paddled many of the great rivers of North America.

As for the Himalayas, Carrington continues: «The threat posed is far greater than even this terrifying prospect: a quarter of the world's people rely on Himalayan meltwater, which helps feed the great rivers that plunge down into Asia.

The edges of the desert region, valleys of the great rivers, low level land in cyclonic paths.

The lower parts of the world's great rivers (Po, Rhine, Nile, Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Yellow, Mississippi, Amazon), where more than 3 billion people live and the bulk of agriculture and industry are located, sit no more than a few metres above sea level.

«Calculations by glaciologists now suggest that by 2050 most of the Himalayan glaciers will have gone and the impact on dry season flow of those great rivers will be dramatic in the extreme.»

(As many people know, some nitrogen also washes into rivers and streams, ultimately making its way to the ocean, where it contributes to dead zones at the mouths of many of our great rivers, including the Mississippi.)

Many of the continent's great rivers begin up in the snows, fed by melting ice in high - peak regions such as the Hindu Kush, the Pamir and the Himalayas.

General Electric is responsible for contaminating nearly the length of one of the world's great rivers.

The Himalayan glaciers are the water towers of Asia, and the source of many of the world's great rivers: The Yangtze, the Ganges, the Indus and [continue reading...]

Like great rivers of ice, glaciers have sculpted mountains and carved out valleys.

The Nile, like the other great rivers of Africa (notably, the Congo, Niger, and Sénégal), became very reduced, if not totally blocked, by silt and desert sand during the low - precipitation, arid phases of the Pleistocene.

The damming of Asia's great rivers has greatly reduced the sediment flows that created the deltas in the first place and maintain them now.

Ice - Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up by Geoffrey Lean May 7, 2006 The Independent / UK

Beginning, excerpted:» Ice - capped roof of world turns to desert «Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up

Deep in the Sundarbans, a vast mangrove maze where the Ganges and two other great rivers weave their way to the coast in India and Bangladesh, the big - cat conservationist Alan Rabinowitz plays a video clip on his laptop for a cluster of men and women in an impoverished village where tigers — in one of their last big refuges — regularly kill or maim people scouring the shorelines for meager hauls of fish and crabs.

The ripe, raw textures of his thick, heavy creations make them almost impossible to photograph as he takes painterliness to a visceral extreme, laying on great rivers, mounds, twisted braids, spiky hardened drips and straight - from - the - tube loops of colour.

One of the great rivers of Africa, the Zambezi is at its most spectacular here and the Falls are at their most dramatic at this time of year with huge columns of spray and seemingly perpetual mist, «thunder» and rainbows.

One of the great rivers of Africa, the Zambezi appears at its most spectacular at Victoria Falls being twice the size of Niagara - 355 feet high and over 5500 feet wide.

Such a varied experience and opportunity to see this immensely beautiful country with its vast mountain ranges, great plains, thundering canyons and great rivers, while learning about the richly varied history of its peoples.

Then come explore the great rivers of the world in unprecedented comfort.

From there, you'll cross two great rivers, the Macal and the Mopan Rivers.

Indulge your passion for majestic art, architecture, music and history on an all - encompassing journey through four countries along three great rivers — the Danube, Main and Rhine — and to numerous UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Internet educator Walter McKenzie selected the ten sites listed here, which are among the best on the Web for teaching about the Mississippi and other great rivers.

Ice - Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up by Geoffrey Lean May 7, 2006 The Independent / UK

How will these great rivers be affected by the permafrost thaw?

The combination of glacial melt and precipitation produce an amount of water that's larger than many of the world's great rivers, such as the Ganges, Nile, Volga, Niger, Columbia, Danube or Yellow River.

After 1492, in any case, those two great rivers of humanity, which had diverged 30,000 years earlier, began to converge again in America, and their waters commingled.

For more than 10,000 years, migrating fishes — Atlantic, chinook, and coho salmon, American shad, blueback herring, and striped bass, to name a few — have returned in astonishing abundance to the great rivers up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Some say great rivers are responsible, others point to vanished hills and seas.

The country's engineers are damming or diverting the five great rivers that flow out of Tibet and into neighbouring countries

YICHANG, China — According to legend, one of China's ancient emperors — Da Yu, or Yu the Great — changed the course of Chinese history by placing a mountain in front of the Yangtze River, forcing it to flow east through the Middle Kingdom (instead of south like the other great rivers that rise in the same Yunnan region of southwest China).

Extreme floods around the world could have a common cause — mysterious great rivers of water that gush through the atmosphere

In geography there is an emphasis on locational knowledge — using maps and locating key geographical features from capital cities to the world's great rivers.

Usually he is found only in the deep places of great rivers; and for the most part he keeps in midstream, so that a man can not get at him.

It originated centuries ago with the fishermen who cooked it in big metal pots over campfires on the embankments of Hungary's great rivers, including the Danube.

As if the river Jordan were somehow a better river than the great rivers of Syria, his own country.

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

The Brandt Commission found hope in the fact that vast irrigation schemes are being considered, especially in Africa, noting that such projects will enable the great rivers to become the means of transforming large areas of semiarid land into productive agricultural regions.

The melting of the arctic ice and the Greenland glaciers along with the warming of the ocean will raise sea levels and flood some of the world's most populous and fertile regions, the deltas of the great rivers.

And between two very great rivers it is, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

No greater rivers of blood & misery have been spilled than in the name of religion & «God».

And the last book of the Bible prophetically pointed to the gradual depletion of religion, that is false religion, by its members at Revelation 16, which says: «And the sixth one (of seven angels) poured out his bowl (symbolizing God's anger) upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.»

There used to be a barn on the crest of the Chautauqua hills so placed that its ridgepole was a watershed between two great river systems.

And after he crossed the great river of death, «All the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.»

The great river has split into numerous branches.

From the time of the land of Ur, Genesis 15:7, which was the land that YHWH called Abraham out of to give him, and his «seeds» the inheritance of the land from the river of Egypt, unto the great river of the Euphrates, along with the covenant in Genesis 15:18.

«To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.»

Tradition is the living river that links us to the origins, the living river in which the origins are ever present, the great river that leads us to the gates of eternity.»