Sentences with phrase «inhospitable areas»

Now that AGW and climate change are settled and have been for quite a while, it would seem prudent to find oases of habitable territory in otherwise inhospitable areas.

The landscape is dotted with mushrooms — fungi that have no roots and flourish in inhospitable areas without sunlight — which can serve as a metaphor for immigration.

Taken from old editions of National Geographic magazine, inhospitable areas turn into hallucinatory beauty.

It would be an inhospitable area for humanity, rife with radiation emanating from a surplus of massive stars and material being torn apart by the black hole.

Not exact matches

«The land was a frost pocket,» says Greenfield, «a low spot in an otherwise lovely agricultural area, and it would prove inhospitable to fine grape growing.»

Because no Indian or Pakistani troops were present in the inhospitable northeastern areas beyond this point, the Ceasefire Line was not delineated as far as the Chinese border.

For example, changing conditions may increase pest and pathogen outbreaks or allow an invasive species to move into an area that was previously inhospitable.

Cedar logging is taking place nearby, and there are concerns that this could dry out the area, changing the mycoflora and creating an inhospitable environment.

SKIN Relatively low moisture, a low pH, and high salinity make most areas inhospitable to all but a few species.

Although underwater caves are found in many areas of the United States, most tend to be cold, murky, and just plain inhospitable, according to Richards.

The research, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the air.

«It might mean that they could crisscross areas of inhospitable habitat at a greater frequency than we might expect based on what habitat is good,» Pittman said.

Area X is a foreboding, inhospitable land where the laws of physics and nature have turned in on themselves as the environment mutates with new and fascinating results.

In the wild, canids have been known to cover massive areas of rough terrain and inhospitable wilderness without ever needing 2 pairs of shoes to protect their paws.

If you can, make that area inaccessible or inhospitable to your cat.

A collective of six winemakers that includes one from Napier they grow vines in an area known more for its inhospitable storms, and a coastline riddled with shipwrecks, than wine.

«Polar melting may cause dislocation for those who live in low - lying coastal areas, but it will also lead to safe commercial shipping in formerly inhospitable northern seas,» says Jeff Jacoby in his Boston Globe article titled, «There Are Benefits to Climate Change.»

Blooms also remove oxygen necessary for animal life from the water, creating massive «dead zones» — areas where the oxygen is so low that the water is inhospitable to life, suffocating large amounts of fish and crustaceans.

For example, changing climate conditions may increase pest and pathogen outbreaks or allow an invasive species to move into an area that was previously inhospitable.

All this could make much of the current forest area inhospitable to trees.

Significant temperature increases can make surrounding areas inhospitable for fish and other animals or plants.

Anyway, the roman empire declined at the same time as the UK temperature cooled again and our upland areas became inhospitable.

In other words, the traditional law firm operating under the traditional law firm business model is an inhospitable place for many, many lawyers — a place where their success depends not upon their skills as a lawyer but upon their abilities in areas in which they have no training, interest or aptitude, as well as upon their gender and the color of their skin; a place that requires them to sacrifice their personal lives; a place where they do not feel valued or fulfilled in their work; a place and where opportunities are denied to them and only a very small number can reach positions of success.