Sentences with phrase «huge rivers of»

Inch by inch the huge river of ice which we call a glacier creeps toward the sea, and here its projecting end is broken off by the action of the waves.

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A huge email marketing organization called River City Media failed to safeguard backups of its database of 1.34 billion email accounts, resulting in all that user information being available for anyone to see.

Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

Hudson River Trading, a huge high - frequency trading firm that is responsible for about 5 % of all US stock trading, filed a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, and it's a pretty brutal takedown of the proposal.

Delays have bruised several projects, and one of the state's key corporate partners — SolarCity, a power company backed by Elon Musk that intends to open a huge solar - panel factory on the Buffalo River — has watched its stock price plunge over the past year.

The Bennett Dam built by BC on the Peace River has done huge actual damage to one of the largest fresh water deltas in the world (The Peace — Athabasca Delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site).

The huge river barges had constant problems with leakage and needed a large crew to pump water out of hull (again, becuase of the size).

After all, the bank is well known for financing huge projects in developing countries that have made it an accomplice in the pollution of rivers, the burning of forests, and the strip mining of huge areas.

Of particular interest are the huge Asian catfish found in the rivers of Golden Triangle countries, seen at lefOf particular interest are the huge Asian catfish found in the rivers of Golden Triangle countries, seen at lefof Golden Triangle countries, seen at left.

After devouring a plate of these fabulous paleo pancakes and Canadian black forest bacon for breakfast we and followed along the crystal clear mountain rivers and huge bright blue lakes until we reached the ferry terminal in Balfour.

Getting to road trip down to the Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado and climb all over huge sand dunes that were at the base of snowy mountain peaks with a river running between them — PINCH ME.

The wine's name refers to the huge horseshoe bend of the river Douro around this iconic vineyard.

All of the River Cafe cook books are great for a huge and unusual variety of Italian dishes.

Despite the huge number of options, a reported 70 % of Argentinians support either River or Boca, and the whole country grinds to a halt when the Superclasico is on.

When we reached the top by the shining granite walls of the road cut through the mountain, a huge sunburst illuminated the peak of Mount Brandon, and laid out before us were the dark tarns that held trout and the gleaming thread of the Cloghane River, where the salmon and white trout ran 3,000 feet below.

A month ago a huge red dog with one blue eye and one brown eye stole into our barn, grabbed Jack in his jaws and abducted him, taking him down to the center of Mill River, the tiny village in Massachusetts where we live.

It is tragic to see rivers such as Ankobra, Pra, Ofin and parts of the Volta, which used to provide clean potable water to huge communities now turned into a flow of mud and grime.

«Through huge efforts and major investments hundreds of miles of rivers and canals running through our towns and cities are now cleaner than in living memory and fish stocks are thriving right in your back yard!

The base and treads of the huge, movable crane sat on the unfinished new bridge, which crosses the Hudson River between Westchester and Rockland counties.

And we first saw this when Enoch Powell made his «rivers of blood» speech, there was a huge surge of attacks on black conductors on our buses.»

The small bug poses a huge risk to Hemlock trees in New York, and has been spotted in Nova Scotia and the Ontario side of the Niagara River.

Stated Hayley Carlock, Scenic Hudson's director of environmental advocacy, «Getting it wrong on this project could imperil the health, economies and private and commercial properties along a huge section of the Hudson River.

Architect Norman Foster has a track record of getting breathtaking structures built: He tossed a footbridge across London's Thames River and stuck a huge glass dome on top of Berlin's Reichstag.

«The implications of this ruling are huge,» says Brad Walker, who headed river restoration efforts for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment in St. Louis before retiring earlier this month.

University of Washington research showed a decade ago that rivers exhale huge amounts of carbon dioxide — though left open the question of how that was possible, since bark and stems were thought to be too tough for river bacteria to digest.

This process began in 1286 when a huge storm swept much of the settlement into the sea and silted up the Dunwich River.

«It's exciting to think that 100,000 years ago there were three huge rivers forcing their way across a 1000 km of the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean — and that our ancestors could have walked alongside them» said Coulthard.

The food in the river was so rich it could sustain a huge new mess of fish on top of the old.

Brownish water from the Mississippi River billows into the Gulf of Mexico in this 2000 image, creating a huge, lifeless area.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- Enbridge Energy Partners LP has begun a new round of dredging on the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, to clean up oil from a huge pipeline spill in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

Today, remnants of the bison, or buffalo, herds still roam the grasslands and river valleys of Yellowstone, a huge park that covers parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

And despite the desert climate and rapid uplift, huge expanses — hundreds of square miles — have been beveled by rivers.

No matter how you burn it, you still have to mine it — dumping West Virginia mountaintops into nearby rivers, gouging huge scars into the earth in Montana or Wyoming, and exposing miners to the risk of injury or death.

The four Rhine nations, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands, have spent huge sums on stopping the flow of heavy metals, raw sewage and poisonous chemicals into the river.

Huge boulders are perched hundreds of feet above the river.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

Two million fishers, farmers and herders live on the inner delta of the River Niger, a huge wetland on the fringe of the Sahara.

As the river widened and the land opened up, we passed bear, musk oxen, and a drowned caribou, its huge rack of antlers still high above the waterline, like the limbs of a half - submerged tree.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Basic ocean conditions such as current directions and water temperature play a huge role in determining the behavior of young migrating salmon as they move from rivers and hit ocean waters for the first time, according to new research.

The Mississippi River has been the focus of huge feats of engineering in an attempt to control the river, but a new study suggests those management efforts might have inadvertently raised the risk of flooRiver has been the focus of huge feats of engineering in an attempt to control the river, but a new study suggests those management efforts might have inadvertently raised the risk of flooriver, but a new study suggests those management efforts might have inadvertently raised the risk of flooding.

This huge network of rivers and streams drains about 40 percent of the lower 48 U.S. states.

Most importantly, it's when the Mississippi River starts shipping into the Gulf huge amounts of nutrient - filled water from melting snow and ice throughout its basin.

It's believed that prehistoric man obtained a huge chunk of his dietary magnesium by drinking from wild rivers and streams.

As you might already know, I am a huge fan of mixing high street with high end, I strongly disagree that bloggers shouldn't wear Zara or River Island or even Primark, because they are bloggers and people expect them to wear the rare and new brands.

Summer is my favorite and I am a huge planner of adventures for my sweet family and I love to look stylish as we hike those mountains and play in the rivers;)

Read about ice, steam, snow, drinking water, oceans, water pollution, seawater, rivers the water cycle and much more with our huge range of interesting facts about water.

Don't overlook the many free sights and scenes of the city though — there are huge and beautiful parks to stroll through at any time, as well as the River Thames, which has miles and miles of banks to walk along at any time.

► A man and a woman steal a Medevac helicopter and fly to stop creatures from destroying a city: they see a giant wolf jump into the air and bite three helicopters in half while the wolf and a giant gorilla destroy buildings and vehicles into rubble and smoke; something swims fast under the surface of a river, it rises high in the water to reveal a prehistoric spiny crocodile with an armored tail and a spiked ball at its end, many huge teeth that include side tusks, and wings behind its ears; it upsets a large touring craft full of people who fall into the water, screaming, and it roars at the sky before joining the other two creatures in destroying buildings.

Instead of a nice smooth tarmac road, the team is faced with a nightmare of a huge muddy river.