Sentences with phrase «hundreds of square miles»

The mining method is considered to be very damaging to the environment, as it involves leveling hundreds of square miles of land, trees and wildlife.

Thirty - four years ago, a similar snow pack melted, flooding hundreds of square miles of the valley.

The lines spread over hundreds of square miles and were created by removing the rust - colored stones that cover the desert, revealing the light - colored soil beneath.

Public outrage over the massive environmental damage inflicted by this spill, which covered hundreds of square miles of the channel and fouled beaches from Ventura to Goleta, was a major spur to the budding environmental movement.

De Pater's long - time colleague and coauthor Ashley Davies, a volcanologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., said that the recent eruptions resemble past events that spewed tens of cubic miles of lava over hundreds of square miles in a short period of time.

When the insects reach a critical mass, they start gathering together, first forming carpets of immature nymphs and then winged throngs that can span hundreds of square miles.

PANTHER, which was funded by Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research & Development program, is gleaning deeper insights from complex data sets in minutes instead of months, and covering hundreds of square miles instead of dozens.

Over the past two years, the Great Barrier Reef experienced unprecedented bleaching events that left hundreds of square miles of coral dead and dying.

Approximately 100,000 barrels (16,000 m3) of oil surged out of a huge undersea break, fouling hundreds of square miles of ocean and all the coastline from Ventura to Goleta, as well north facing beaches on the Channel Islands.

Hundreds of square miles once vital, now as barren as could be.

He concluded by describing how the Sentinel mission could, within a decade, identify a huge number of orbiting objects that can not be detected now but could have the destructive power of the Tunguska object, which exploded over Siberia in 1908, flattening hundreds of square miles of forest.

Its disregard is evident in the poisoned wasteland around the nickel smelter in Monchegorsk, south of Murmansk, where hundreds of square miles of what was once forest is now almost entirely devoid of life.

But the impacts are much less systematic than is the case for climate change: large scale mechanized war may affect hundreds of square miles, and that's impressive.

South of El Calafate, Argentina, if you do see a sign of humanity, it's usually an estancia (ranch), many of which are hundreds of square miles in size.

Ivory - bills were known to travel far and wide to find recently dead trees suitable for roosting, and any now living could cover hundreds of square miles.

Using multibeam sonar, a recent expedition found that the foot of the slope north of Alaska lies much farther out than expected, potentially entitling the United States to new resource rights over hundreds of square miles of seabed.

Many seismologists and disaster response experts have stressed that initial counts are always low, particularly in a disaster zone like this one — spread over hundreds of square miles of vertiginous terrain, with many communities unreachable by road at the best of times.

High - altitude winds can make it sprinkle over hundreds of square miles, though it's most intense near the blast site.

In 1908 hundreds of square miles of Siberian forest were flattened and burned by a mysterious fireball.

A tripling of the population along the Gulf Coast since the 1950s is one, and the loss of hundreds of square miles of surge - buffering wetlands is another.

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

Washington scablands: Hundreds of square miles of Washington State were gouged by the great Missoula Floods 15,000 years ago.

In West Virginia, I got a close look at the high cost of our dependence on coal — not just the hundreds of square miles of mountains that have been decapitated by strip mines in the southern part of the state, but also the poverty and hardship that I witnessed in many coal - mining towns.

Soon Grady's home and hundreds of square miles of surrounding wilderness will be placed under quarantine by Homeland Security.

Down here, the Barrier Reef separates from the main land to create an Inner - Lagoon sprinkled with hundreds of cayes (small islands), coral reef, and miniature atolls, which makes for superb diving and snorkeling, and hundreds of square miles of flats that offers the Best in Belize Fishing.

With more than 180 miles of the barrier reef, hundreds of square miles of shallow reefs and three offshore atolls, Belize has ample diving variety.

Now, it has caused a spreading stain over hundreds of square miles of the Timor Sea between Australia and Indonesia, where oil is spilling unabated from a well drilled by PTTEP, based in Thailand.

Or how the manufacture and installation of hundreds of square miles of solar cells and the associated power lines from the locations where solar is feasible to the area where the power is needed will impact the environment?

He said «the three thousand foot ceiling is massive, it's hundreds of square miles.