Sentences with phrase «in lakes and rivers»

«In addition to surface water contained in lakes and rivers, the vast majority of the earth's freshwater consists of groundwater held in underground aquifers.

Many exfoliating scrubs contain plastic microbeads, which pass through water treatment plants and end up in lakes and rivers.

Kids couldn't swim in lakes and rivers because they were too polluted.

They report in Environmental Research Letters that they examined 740 different production systems for 90 different foods, to calculate levels of land use, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), fossil fuel energy use, the nutrient runoff that leads to eutrophication or «dead zones» in lakes and rivers, and the potential for acidification of the waters.

Freshwater Alpine fish such as trout are considered a delicacy thanks to the purity of the water in the lakes and rivers in which they are caught.

We do hear from clients that their dog will swim in lakes and rivers but not in our pool.

Ride Yosemite every year and swim in the lakes and rivers.

But this new set of fossils, found in rocks dating between 520 and 542 million years, suggests entire communities of organisms were already thriving in lakes and rivers at this time.

A new airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) system will be built to enable future interdisciplinary ecological and environmental research involving optical measurements of fish, plankton, water turbidity, and related quantities in lakes and rivers.

A third round of tests on water and sediment samples collected in lakes and rivers downstream from coal ash ponds in North Carolina yielded further confirmation.

Examining how land - use changes may affect water quality and fisheries resources in lakes and rivers will help natural resource agencies manage wildlife populations, according to Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at South Dakota State University.

Hormone - disrupting chemicals may be far more prevalent in lakes and rivers than previously thought.

Hundreds of millions of years ago a humble fish swam in the lakes and rivers of the supercontinent Gondwana.

The beads are a common ingredient in cosmetics and personal care products and are a leading cause of plastic pollution in lakes and rivers.

Fish live in lakes and rivers.

Are you implying that since the flood salinity levels in lakes and rivers gradually decreased allowing adequate time for adaptation?

Not exact matches

In one of the projects designed by PBS Education, students can view a guided tour of various French explorers in the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi RiveIn one of the projects designed by PBS Education, students can view a guided tour of various French explorers in the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Rivein the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

Its motherlode consists of extraordinarily high - grade uranium deposits in Saskatchewan: the McArthur River and Cigar Lake deposits account for roughly 80 % of its proven and probable reserves.

The federal government in September ordered a temporary halt to construction on corps land around and underneath Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir in the Dakotas.

And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceaAnd even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceaand toward oceans.

Laws related to drinking water, elections, financial transparency, matrimonial property, land surrenders and the removal of protections for lakes and rivers were passed in spite of strong opposition by First Nations.

On one hand, it confirms how much Canadians value our water and how integral our lakes and rivers are to our national identity; on the other, it reveals a troubling carelessness with a resource Canadians still consider unlimited in its abundance...

The Pine Point property consists of a semi-contiguous group of 47 mineral claims and mining leases in the Pine Point District, about 10 km south of Great Slave Lake and accessible from Hay River by all - weather year - round highway which parallels the mining lease block.

Most players in the gutter cleaning line of business usually offer related services such as providing cleaning services for spas, hot tubs, whirlpools, saunas, gutters and rivers and lakes et al..

The new law will apply only to the three oceans that border Canadian territory, and to 159 lakes, rivers and riverines designated in schedule 2 of Bill C - 45.

PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and habitats, among a multitude of other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.

... and, it's no one person or post or thing, and its not that I have all the answers, or that I live my beliefs the way that I aspire to... I just see lots of really great - hearted people tying themselves in knots, feeling shame and guilt and depression and anger... and at times it seems it is because they are trying to differentiate between seas and lakes and rivers and oceans... instead of just going for a swim.

What I do get it the beauty of the vision you have had as you describe here and in your video of the waterfall with the metaphors of the river water fall and lake for Father Son and Spirit and the peace that has accompanied that surpassing understanding.

The trees and soil, the rivers, lakes and estuaries, the populations of birds and mammals, also have a right to life — not an absolute right, but a right that must be considered in relation to human rights.

I knew enough about fishing now to know that most fish lived in lakes, rivers, and streams.

When I looked through the magazines, all the pictures showed boats in rivers and lakes.

They live in oceans, streams, lakes, and rivers.

Pagans who worshipped Odin, believed in Isis and Mithra, believing that natural guilt and corruption of their new - born children could be washed away by sprinkling them with water, or by plunging them, as soon as born, into lakes or rivers.

It's found in the trees outside our windows, it's found in the rivers and the lakes.

Already more than 16,000 lakes and rivers within Canada have had their protected status removed in order to facilitate oil exploration and resource mining on First Nations land.

I have just wondered what John and Jesus would have done if they had arrived in a climate like mine where lakes and rivers are frozen half the year... or a culture like we have where identifying with an ideology or movement typically means you buy a t - shirt with a catchy saying, or just dress a certain way.

They have pictures hubg in their homes showing the way it use to be, and the children only had to look out the front door and see a dead lake where there once was a roaring, living river that took care of all their needs.

In the meantime, excess phosphates from fertilizers get leached into rivers and lakes.

My heart, soul, and spirit are tied to soaring mountains, singing rivers, crystal clear lakes, bubbling streams, countless stars, the sound of snow falling in an empty forest, and the endless quiet nights.

They can unite in measures that prevent ecological degradation — such as deforestation, pollution of lakes and rivers, and so on.

She, beside me walking with her secret joys, motioned her two gloved hands airborne toward a stick out on the lake beyond the boys, a dark branch balanced at the dam's ledge, in the roar and plunging of that river on whose cascade into noise it seemed to hesitate, poised there at the edge of more.

Whether it is tilapia harvested in Ecuador, farm - raised trout from Idaho or oysters sourced from the Gulf of Mexico North Atlantic Coast, Seattle Fish Company of New Mexico scours oceans, lakes, rivers and aquaculture farms seeking the best catch for its customers.

Lake Erie, the Finger Lakes area, Hudson River Valley and Long Island in New York State.

It seems amazing now but for centuries the only way people living in hot climates could cool their drinks was to have first gathered ice and snow from mountain tops and frozen rivers and lakes.

Nestled in the heart of the Salmon River Mountains, and on the shores of the stunning Payette Lake, Shore Lodge in McCall is an idyllic retreat that offers refuge from big city life amongst unparalleled natural beauty.

In the late 80's Bobby and I spent a week with some friends on a houseboat on Lake Powell, a lake on the Colorado River in the southwestern U.SIn the late 80's Bobby and I spent a week with some friends on a houseboat on Lake Powell, a lake on the Colorado River in the southwestern ULake Powell, a lake on the Colorado River in the southwestern Ulake on the Colorado River in the southwestern U.Sin the southwestern U.S..

SweetWater has long been involved in programs devoted to the cleanup efforts of the Chattahoochee River, and also donates a percentage of its profits to Camp Twin Lakes, serving children with serious illnesses and disabilities.

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.

Over 679,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was provided directly to the South Australian Murray (including over 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah Lakes).