Sentences with phrase «huge areas of»

Hurricane Harvey has devastated huge areas of Texas.

Mining, particularly gold mining, on the other hand opens up huge areas of the forest and also invites contamination from mercury — which is either dumped in the river or burned and then inhaled by the miners and their families.

«This means an inevitable death for the ice cover, because the summer retreat is now accelerated by the fact that the huge areas of open water already generated allow storms to generate big waves which break up the remaining ice and accelerate its melt,» Wadhams said.

«The costs of the extra insulation and extra care in construction are largely offset by the savings realized from not having huge areas of expensive [windows], not having huge well - sealed insulating shutters for huge south windows, and not having a furnace or a big heat distribution system.»

An increase in ocean temperatures of just a few degrees can destroy huge areas of coral reefs through bleaching — a stress response that causes a coral to lose its colorful and protective colony of nutrient - gathering algae.

And don't assume about huge areas of ice or desert which had no measurements because they had no people to measure.

Asia Pacific Resources International Limited and its affiliates like Toba Pulp Lestari, which makes pulp for rayon, are clear cutting and draining huge areas of Indonesia's diverse rainforests and peatlands.

These effects could lead to a devastating half meter of sea level rise by 2050, plus much more by 2100, which would wipe out huge areas of low - lying farmland.

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

Just since 1980 we have lost 6 ~ 12 % of these vital plants globally and according to Behrenfeld's 12/06 Nature report there are now 50 % die - offs in huge areas of the equatorial Pacific.

«As a result, we are losing huge areas of coral across the US, as well as internationally.

Geez, this seems like it is going to require huge areas of solar cells to do the job economically.

Even though the liars at NOAA are using huge areas of «QC Fail» and «No Data» to falsify their charts, they are having difficulty keeping the daily methane peaks below 2400 ppb.

Think where ice forms: either in and close to oceans, which are large sinks of CO2, or in huge areas of snow and ice where the only CO2 available is volcanic and geothermal.

Huge areas of hardwood forest in the state of Virginia are being chainsawed to create «biomass» energy in Britain as the government attempts to reach targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in efforts to tackle climate change, an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches...

Look at any view of the Earth from Virtual Earth and note the huge areas of desert and snow.

Our hope is that aside from the generic tuning and making the game feel good, we have huge areas of content that we need to fill out.

Providing a competitive platform for professionals, the Overwatch League is the company's answer to storming the world one payload at a time, allowing huge areas of promotion to mingle with the popularity of television sporting events.

The last major fire was 1917 — curtains set fire in the kitchen of an old wooden - construction house, the fire spreading rapidly and destroying huge areas of the whole city.

Those unvaccinated dogs fortunate enough to survive the initial snake strike can slough, or lose, huge areas of skin, leaving gaping wounds requiring months of hydrotherapy and additional surgeries to close.

Here in Kenya we have huge areas of road reserves — large treeless tracts of land on either side of all roads.

But I'm also talking to writers who feel it isn't worth their time to go to Smashwords, thus cutting out huge areas of the entire world as an audience.

Explain that icebergs are really large chunks of ice that break off from huge areas of snow and ice and float in the water.

Huge areas of the map had no floor at all.

After all, huge areas of our planet, including the poles and deserts, are rather barren.

The worst salt - affected region is the Aral Sea basin of central Asia, where huge areas of former cotton fields have been abandoned to salt.

Bioinformatics covers huge areas of expertise these days, so I'll focus on my own particular area: using protein structural predictions to link DNA and protein sequences to their functions.

At risk are many of the world's cities and huge areas of fertile farmland.

This demand has catalyzed interest in mining huge areas of the deep - sea floor.

They include the giant deer, which populated huge areas of Eurasia during the Ice Age.

Trinity College's Coleman says that the solution - based exfoliation methods, which to date produce graphene up to several tens of microns wide, are probably best suited for «middle - size industrial quantities, whereas the Intels of the world will likely be more interested in growing huge areas of graphene using CVD - type processes,» which so far can make samples up to a few square centimeters.

It is also an unbalanced recovery with huge areas of the UK and millions of ordinary people yet to feel the benefits, while the gap between rich and poor gets ever wider.

The classic «types» of government often talked about have huge areas of overlap and often superficial definitions (what's the difference between a theocracy and a plutocracy?).

But there are also huge areas of overlap - the most noticeable, perhaps, being on social justice, and the agenda for change formed during the last Parliament by Iain Duncan - Smith and promoted in this one especially by Liam Fox.

It is cheap coffee grown with lots of chemicals in huge areas of natural habitat that have been destroyed.

Huge areas of pine forests in the mountains east of Los Angeles are dead because of smog from Los Angeles.

But there are still huge areas of the earth under the oceans which aren't explored.

The use of coal will mean that huge areas of Montana, Wyoming, Illinois and other states will be strip - mined.

If interpreted expansively they can involve huge areas of life and put numerous public policy decisions in the hands of judges.

Such a view of the role of technical scientific knowledge, broadly conceived to include the social sciences and most other disciplines, in effect cleared a huge area of academic inquiry in which religious considerations would not be expected to appear.

Not pulling the trigger on player recruits, another huge area of concern.

My son not being circumcised is a huge area of discussion (STILL!)

Targeted therapies are a conceptual breakthrough and have opened up a huge area of investigation into how we fight cancer.»

«So this shines a spotlight on a huge area of ignorance: what people were doing when sea level was lower than at present,» says Geoff Bailey, a coastal archaeologist at the University of York in England.

It covers a huge area of intellectual ground, from evolutionary conundrums — such as our relationship to the great apes, why we are hairless and bipedal — to matters as arcane as the human aura.

Landrovers helped us cover the huge area of snow leopard territory on our survey.We'd drive across the steppe to valleys and then walk the hills to scan for animal sign.

How nanoparticles can best navigate the body's fluids to deliver medicine is a huge area of focus for scientists.

The retinoblastoma gene... opened up a huge, huge area of research that benefited so many cancer patients,» Berry said.

And since I'm getting candid, one huge area of struggle lately has been my health.

Fashion is a huge area of academic discipline, and hence its dissertation requires widespread research and study by the student.