Sentences with phrase «in warmer lands»

There is no real life proof that «races» differ in any meaningful way besides minor ecological and geographical adaptations and evolutionary differences like my long thin nose to pick a rather vulgar example, which clearly changed from my African forefathers due to their migration to colder climates, thus allowing the more efficient heating of the air inhaled, to avoid hypothermia with the minor drawback of restricting the flow of air and thus reducing the amount that can be inhaled compared to those in warmer lands.

In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.

Not exact matches

A warm room In a pleasant club - land scene.

Land developers burn forests in Latin America to feed the cattle that fill the cavernous appetites of fast food chains in the United States — and the entire planet gradually warms, leaving even the experts in doubt about the future of our global ecology.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

The taro plant usually grows along river banks and marshy lands in warm weather.

Well it took a few false starts, a few days of unseasonably warm weather, but we are finally in autumn land.

I'm home for a short week before heading to Palm Springs with the girls to relax, have fun and play a few rounds of golf in the warm weather of the great South land.

There's no value at all from using enormous land and water resources and warming the planet in order to produce a billion tons of food that ultimately don't get eaten — particularly when one in nine people is malnourished in the world.

which when I explain how small and intimate (and warm, in a faraway land), does it make any sense how we could pull it off in just a few months.

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens concluded that global warming threatens the genetic diversity of Arabica plants found in Ethiopia and surrounding lands.

What a perfect recipe to land in my inbox today, being the last day of summer here on the northern beaches of Sydney I am looking forward to making some warm comfort foods.

Now this is why online sports betting is better than land based betting shops because I can bet from home and can get instant updates on the games at any time, especially for the games in the middle of the night from the Copa America matches and warm ups.

Adults can relax in the Splash Landings Whirlpool or the warm therapy pool (double win!).

It is a blessing to be warm, well - fed, well - loved and growing up in the land of opportunity.

The former wartime Land Girl on Lloyd George's farm, and translator of German naval ciphers for the code - breakers at Bletchley Park, went out in suitable style, however: throwing a farewell lunch party for 50 friends including Sir John Major in the Palace of Westminster — where she regaled guests with a song — before a final, majestic, pearls and fur - clad appearance in the Lords chamber to take the oath one last time, to warm cheers from her peers.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

In the «B4WarmED» (Boreal Forest Warming at an Ecotone in Danger) experiment, scientists are heating various plots of boreal forest land artificially by 3.4 °In the «B4WarmED» (Boreal Forest Warming at an Ecotone in Danger) experiment, scientists are heating various plots of boreal forest land artificially by 3.4 °in Danger) experiment, scientists are heating various plots of boreal forest land artificially by 3.4 °C.

The very well - being of the northern food chain is coming under threat from global warming, land development, and industrial pollutants in the marine environment.

Warm - bloodedness in land animals could have developed in evolution much earlier than previously thought.

A substantial portion of the planet is greening in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition, global warming and land use change.

Either that it began in deep sea hydrothermal vents, or alternatively that it began on land in a version of Charles Darwin's «warm little pond.»

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

NEW DELHI — Hoping to kick - start another green revolution, the Indian government on 5 October announced the creation of a research center to develop wheat and maize varieties that thrive in warmer temperatures and on degraded land.

He said: «The warmer, wetter winters predicted for the future will result in more phosphorus transferred from agricultural land into the rivers and ultimately the oceans.

«A warming climate is affecting the Arctic in the most complex ways,» said Virginia Burkett, USGS Associate Director for Climate and Land Use Change.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

Although warming will open up lands in cooler regions for cultivation, it will not compensate for the loss of water and land in areas near the tropics, he said.

Furthermore, tornadoes can be influenced by many regional factors, including topography of the land and areas where cooler air meets warm, subtropical air, making it difficult to attribute the shift in the tornado season to any one factor, he said.

While Earth's landmass has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, on average, land temperatures in the Arctic have risen almost 2 C (3.6 F).

About 90 percent of global warming is ending up not on land, but in the oceans.

In contrast, the warming on the land may increase the protective vegetation layer and delay thawing of permafrost outside of lakes,» said Vladimir Romanovsky of the UAF Geophysical Institute and co-author of the new study.

So we've landed in two places that might have been warmer and wetter in the past.

The locations of weather stations, changes in instruments, the siting of weather stations in warmer urban areas, changes in land cover and other issues have all been cited as issues affecting the temperature trends often used to show that our planet is in fact warming.

Pielke, who said one issue ignored in the paper is that land surface temperature measurements over time show bigger warming trends than measurements from higher up in a part of the atmosphere called the lower troposphere, and that still needs more explanation.

The material on Amazon forest dieback was in the IPCC assessment as were the numbers on recent sea level (thought the IPCC did not use the information on recent contributions from land ice in their estimate for 21st century warming.)

That means studying changes in the Pliocene atmosphere, the land surface and most of all the oceans, which absorb the bulk of planetary warming.

It increases the ability to predict how changes in land use or climate warming could affect the sources and global concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

Euan Nisbet, a geologist at the University of London, points out that the Arctic, where the warming is expected to be strongest, is vulnerable — both on land and in shallow seas there are hydrates that are stabilized mostly by low temperatures rather than by high pressures.

Worse still, in places like west Antarctica, ice sheets rest on land that is below sea level, and so could be exposed directly to warm water.

«The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past.»

Warming and drought may force modern Mongolians from their land, but unusually wet weather helped the rise of the Mongolian empire in the 1200s, a new study suggests.

Our planet has warmed by 1 degree Fahrenheit since the beginning of the century, but for reasons that aren't entirely clear, the Antarctic Peninsula — the stretch of land that reaches up toward South America — has warmed 4.5 degrees in just the past 50 years.

«The land ice in the Arctic and very likely in the Antarctic is losing mass and shrinking, and the sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking, all as expected in world warming from our CO2,» Alley said.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Such a dramatic decline could turn the land from taking up carbon overall to pumping it out by 2100, as the rate of respiration by soil microbes, which exhale carbon dioxide, is predicted to increase in a warmer world.

Land - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouLand - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouland to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thought.

Later on November 10 the team plans to switch Philae on and start warming it up for Wednesday's landing, said Stephan Ulamec, the lander's project manager at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne.