Sentences with phrase «huge drainage basin»

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To understand the hidden costs of corn - based ethanol requires factoring in «the huge, monstrous costs of cleaning up polluted water in the Mississippi River drainage basin and also trying to remedy the negative effects of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico,» says Tad Patzek of the University of California's Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

For the first time, findings based on observations and computer simulations all point to the same conclusion: the huge Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica has begun an irreversible ice discharge, and nothing can now halt the subsequent drainage of the entire basin.