Sentences with phrase «increasingly arid»

Officials at the Bureau of Land Management's Lander field office have taken interest in Central Wyoming College's research because it will help the bureau plan for an increasingly arid climate, said Kristin Yannone, the office's planning and environment coordinator.

Build a large enough structure — say, a tube a thousand feet or longer on the shore or in the sea itself — and you could provide freshwater for an increasingly arid planet, which could quite literally change the world.

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This global trend radically transformed landscapes in Southwestern Europe, which became increasingly more arid.

And increasingly, those rocks are coming from the arid mountains and deserts of northwest Africa.

Descriptions and clues can be found in every area with your flashlight, and ARID has plenty to say as she progresses deeper into the increasingly perilous facility.

The Mediterranean and Middle East are increasingly swallowed by a northward shifting (and net increasing) arid zone.

So in losing forest, and in watching farmland become saline because of over-irrigation, or exhausted by intensive cultivation or overgrazing, or simply increasingly too arid to support vegetation, humans are witnessing the loss of all sorts of valuable services not normally recorded by accountants.

As a result of inappropriate management and rising levels of societal demand, in arid and semi-arid regions water resources are becoming increasingly stressed.

«Generally, large scale burning is increasingly seen as an ecological disaster because it opens up the ground cover and greatly exposes small and medium vertebrates to predation by dingoes, foxes and feral cats,» Dr. Terry Dawson, who studies environmental physiology and arid zone mammals and birds, told TreeHugger.

Key challenges, therefore, will be to increasingly: 1) interrogate extreme events in climate simulations; 2) use earth system models to disentangle the complex and multiple controls on proxies; 3) adopt multi-proxy approaches to constrain complex phenomena; and 4) increase the spatial coverage of such records, especially in arid regions, which are currently under - represented.