Sentences with phrase «in vast river»

Megacities like Shanghai, London, New York, and Bangkok that lie in vast river deltas are particularly vulnerable.

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Born in the vast mountain ranges of British Columbia, the Fraser River floods southward to its rendezvous with the Pacific.

Imagine that we are in a boat, rowing across a vast, slow - moving river so large that we can not even see the other side.

The task was not to defend the particular stream of Christianity in which my students had first touched the waters of baptism, but to show them that it was fed by a vast river stretching back two millennia.

The Brandt Commission found hope in the fact that vast irrigation schemes are being considered, especially in Africa, noting that such projects will enable the great rivers to become the means of transforming large areas of semiarid land into productive agricultural regions.

Like finding tiny gold nuggets in the vast murky river of the day to day.

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Finding Your Own Passenger Pigeon - Center for Humans & Nature - January 2015 10 best Chicago museums: Top institutions to visit in Chicago - TimeOut Chicago - December 10, 2014 From prairie and river ecosystems to the biology of Ice Age — mammals, nature and its conservation, the focus at this Lincoln Park museum situated alongside a lagoon is vast and varied.

In Where The Water Goes: Life And Death Along The Colorado River, New Yorker writer David Owen takes a closer look at a vast man - made ecosystem around the Colorado River that is far more complex and interesting than the headlines let on.

Malaska works as a volunteer for the Cassini team in his spare time and at the conference he described a winding channel flowing into a south Titan lake that follows a path very similar to a stretch of the lower Mississippi river — and thus might carry a comparably vast flow after a methane rain.

That's because while the dams stopped new sediment flowing into the river, vast quantities of sand were already trapped in riverbed dunes downstream of the dams (Nature Geoscience, doi.org/sfr).

Our first stop is Pachacamac, a vast archeological site in the Lurin River Valley.

Thus, the vast numbers of farmers in the Indo - Gangetic Plain and in China's Yellow River Basin will most likely face severe disruptions in water availability.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

By the time New Orleans was founded in 1718, the main channel of the river was the beating heart of a system pumping sediment and nutrients through a vast circulatory network that stretched from present - day Baton Rouge south to Grand Isle, west to Texas and east to Mississippi.

The vast magnificent savanna, forests, wooded savannas, and deep rivers habitats remain largely intact with potential for recovery of wildlife populations if urgent and robust conservation security measures are taken in this strategic area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), ECOFAUNE + / AGRECO, and the Ministry of Environment of Central African Republic said in a report issued today.

The evidence of the success of early rice farmers on the vast wetlands near the Guaporé River in Rondônia state, Brazil, could help modern day plant breeders develop rice crops which are less susceptible to disease and more adaptable to the effects of climate change than the Asian varieties.

No one — not Dos Santos or any of the other villagers of Barra do São Manuel, a tiny settlement on the banks of the Tapajós River deep in the Brazilian Amazon, or anyone else in the vast rain forest — relishes facing it, with or without shotgun in hand.

low to moderate upstream water use or levels of water development representative of the region (note that the vast majority of rivers in Montana are influenced to some degree by water use, and these data do reflect some human modification).

Instead of water, liquid methane falls as rain, creates rivers that cut into the hydrocarbon - rich surface, which in turn make valleys, and flows into vast liquid methane lakes.

Scientists think that, in the past, water may have flowed across the surface in rivers and streams, and that vast oceans covered the planet.

Located at the confluence of a vast web of busy river and sea routes, it naturally grew into a Largest mechanical puppet ever built in Britain will tour Wales.

When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage - dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior - Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard - dog, Spots.

When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast rubbish - dump called Trash Island, young Atari Kobayashi (newcomer Koyu Rankin) sets off alone in a miniature Junior - Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard - dog, Spots.

The setting is the Wind River Indian reservation, a vast, wintry area of land in central Wyoming.

There, once it sinks in that the Japanese intend to use the Brits to build a railway west of Baghdad through mountains and valleys, a vast, unenviable and soul - crushing undertaking (famously fictionalized in the Oscar - winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai).

If all of these leaders turn to action now, the stream of professional learning already flowing in 60 schools could become a vast river of learning and job opportunity for U.S. teachers — and their students.

First People's Center for Education, a small non-profit organization based in Sheridan, Wyoming, trains teachers at poor, mostly Native American schools throughout the West, like this one on Wyoming's vast Wind River Indian Reservation.

From the Indus in Pakistan, to the Yangzte in China and to the Colorado River in the US, not forgetting the Amazon, the Nile and the Congo - the majority of the world's great waterways, and thus the huge populations who rely on them, are in crisis; and it's not just the rivers themselves but the vast underground reservoirs that are being drained too.

If he goes so far as to conjure dark - haired children for them, I don't know, but he does build a house where they sit together on a porch, a vast and fertile farm on the other side of the river, and on this night, a shed full of bright chrome tractors, twice as big as the ones that rest still warm and ticking in his father's mule barn.

Traditionally, the vast majority of heartworm cases throughout the country have been found in the wet and temperate climates of the Mississippi River Valley and the southeastern United States.

Vast African plains interspersed with granite kopjes, rivers, the Lebombo Mountains in the east, and a series of forests in the far north, dawn game drives, thatched roof accommodation and the eerie night chatter of hyenas or wild dogs on the prowl make this a firm favourite of any visit to the Limpopo.

And Golden near the confluence of the Kicking Horse and mighty Columbia River and at the foot of Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, where a tradition of mountain adventure has its roots in the golden era of railroading in Canada when Swiss guides arrived in the late 1800's to explore the vast wildness of Canada's mountains, many of them settling in and around Golden.

Here you find mountains akin to the dramatic landscapes of New Zealand, combined with the largest glacial ice fields in South America, slowly melting to feed into a vast network of turquoise rivers and lakes, with water so pure you can drink it!

Royal Zambezi Lodge is a fully refurbished 5 star luxury lodge, overlooking the vast river, allowing the ultimate in comfort and luxury in breathtaking surroundings.

Every year, many tourists will visit rivers, the vast biodiversity of the forest, the regional culture, in short, there are several reasons to visit Amazon, so I separated the top five reasons to ecotourism in the Amazon.

A coral reef aquarium and jungle paths dotted with animals are among the natural attractions, as are snorkeling and swimming in a vast underground river.

Deep under a limestone mountain in the tropical forest, you can follow an underground river through a series of vast grottoes in the Phong Nha Cave.

It's best to consider the Santa Ynez River as a large creek in a vast, dry riverbed with pools gathering every mile or so.

That this vast and legendary river, the longest in India, has been dormant to passenger and cargo traffic for centuries seems unimaginable.

Overlooking the Nyiro River, this purpose built lodge is in the heart of Samburu National Park, in the hot and arid fringes of Kenya's vast Northern Frontier District.

Nyanyi Villas are situated in a jungle - fringed river gorge close to the village of Beraban in Bali's Tabanan regency, which is known as Bali's «rice bowl» due to its vast terraced rice fields.

Among the highlights are: the mountains and river estuaries of Bute Inlet; the wildflowers and birds on Mitlenatch Island; Kingcome Inlet's vast delta and waterfalls; the bighouse and totem remains on Village Island, in the Broughtons; the pebble beaches of Yuquot, at Nootka Sound; the contemporary totems and carvings at Fort Rupert, on north Vancouver Island; the hidden 1890s grave for two children on Redonda Island; the dilapidated boat houses overhanging Sointula's beaches; Sointula's whale rubbing beach; the old mine at Suquash, near Port Hardy; Ripple Rock; and more!

Named after a river of gem, Villa Kalimaya is just a stone throw from the vast Indian Ocean where most rivers in Bali ended.

Dunn's River Falls is such a big draw in Jamaica that the parking lot is a vast sea of tour buses.

The Yucatan Peninsula is home to a vast series of underground rivers which occasionally can be discovered reaching the surface in the form of flooded caverns and deep freshwater lagoons.

The scenery is stunning in places, with rolling mountains tapering into vast fields of tobacco, papaya and water lilies that often extend to the river's edge.

The Namib is the world's oldest and most captivating desert; the Kalahari is vast and dotted with golden grass and red dunes; and Fish River Canyon is second only to the Grand Canyon in size.

Bordering a river and the sloping rice terraces in the village of Umalas in south - west Bali, Villa Surya Damai is a serene five - bedroom holiday home of thatched roof pavilions set amidst a vast garden with an 18 - metre swimming pool as its centrepiece.

The vast concession is home to a wide meandering ox - bow of the verdant Klaserie River and legendary in its game sightings.