Sentences with phrase «into arid»

Hansen began his career studying Venus, which was once a very Earth - like planet with plenty of life - supporting water before runaway climate change rapidly transformed it into an arid and uninhabitable sphere enveloped in an unbreathable gas; he switched to studying our planet by 30, wondering why he should be squinting across the solar system to explore rapid environmental change when he could see it all around him on the planet he was standing on.

Come with me into an arid region where surface temperatures fall below zero at night.

1838 − 39 Droughts in South Australia and Western Australia 1839 Severe drought in the west and north of Spencer Gulf, South Australia 1846 Severe drought converted the interior and far north of South Australia into an arid desert.

You can see a mode of operation in the Sahara as the monsoons penetrate farther and farther into arid areas.

By 1926, the lake had been depleted, exposing vast mineral flats and transforming a fertile valley into an arid landscape.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines desertification as: land degradation into arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including human activities and climatic variations derived from over-development, over-grazing and an overworked land.

It's a destination of changing landscapes where you could in one minute be driving through a rainforest, the next a beach and then into arid red barren landscapes.

It still has a compelling story to tell, in choosing to delve into Arid's internal conflict in being free from the rules and boundaries that once constrained her.

So, we too are sending our spindly roots into this arid soil and slowly we are creating love in a climate of hate.

Satellite mapping shows the Earth has become about 6 percent greener overall in the past two decades, with forests expanding into arid regions.

Ricard Solé suggests releasing genetically engineered bacteria into arid degraded landscapes, for example, to produce a water - retentive polymer to help...

Among the errors in the book are the following: the wild progenitor of wheat, emmer, did not grow «only in the upper Jordan Valley around Jericho» — it grew in the hills of the Mediterranean zone (Galilee, Lebanon, southern Anatolia) and was brought into the arid Jordan valley by Neolithic farmers who learned to grow it under irrigation.

Any man who wanders in a scant span of 15 miles from rain forest into arid plains of cactus and algarroba and sees snow crests standing over tropic water naturally comes to wonder about the excitements of this varied land.

Not exact matches

The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

By inserting the encounters between Jesus» command to cross the lake arid his embarkation, Matthew makes it appear that they occurred just as Jesus was about to step into the boat.

As Robert Law puts it: «Gnosticism traces into the eternal the schism of which we are conscious in the world of experience, and posits two independent arid antagonistic principles of existence from which, severally, come all the good and all the evil that exist.»

The selectiveness of individual experience is moral so far as it conforms to the balance of importance disclosed in the rational vision; arid conversely the conversion of the intellectual insight into an emotional force corrects the sensitive experience in the direction of morality.

As stewards of the Arid Crop Seed Cache, New Mexico's largest collection of native and drought tolerant plants, CP is working to reintroduce these seeds into the communities.

Same way you turn arid desert into a lush country club.

A new study chronicles how central Asia dried out over the last 23 million years into one of the most arid regions on the planet.

Eighty - four miles east of Mount Rushmore, the town of Quinn, South Dakota, blends unobtrusively into the outskirts of arid Badlands National Park.

Robyn Hetem, an ecophysiologist, has the body temperature data to prove it — collected from late 2012 into 2013, the hottest summer the arid Kalahari region in South Africa had seen in more than 30 years.

Instead of nectar, researchers suggest the appendage likely helped the winged insects avoid becoming dehydrated in the hot and arid climate of the time by getting sustenance from another source: sweet secretions beaded up into droplets on seed - bearing — as opposed to flowering — plants.

In the sunny, arid West, there is plenty of heat but limited moisture, and so a process called moisture recycling is at work — today's storms supply the water that evaporates into tomorrow's rainclouds.

Marked by massive wooden posts, the necropolis extends deep into the sands and is still a forbidding sight in the arid Taklamakan Desert of western China.

SUTHERLAND, South Africa — High on an arid plateau, an international group of visiting astronomers stands squinting into a simmering orange sunset.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

«As the Federal Government begins negotiations with the new Senate to repeal the carbon price, any technologies, policies or plans that aim to tackle climate change should take water usage into account, especially in arid countries like Australia,» Dr Wallis said.

The research, which was the first to analyze several types of drought and to take into account land use changes in upstream Syria, could inform water policies in other arid countries with shared rivers.

In addition, as plants spread into unpredictable environments such as arid deserts they grew less dependent on the symbiotic fungi — or mycorrhiza — that colonize roots and help host plants obtain the essential plant nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus.

Some arid regions will turn into deserts and rising seas will inundate fertile but low lying delta regions that are home to tens of millions of peasant farmers in countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt.

The slowly rotating version of Earth has climate zones very different from actual Earth — the Sahara desert has turned into a rain forest, and the northern U.S. and Canada have become more arid like Los Angeles.

Clues from prehistoric arid periods in California show that today's increasing greenhouse gas levels could lock the state into drought for centuries, according to a study by an international research collaboration led by Glen MacDonald from UCLA and including Katrina Moser from Western University and her former graduate student, Amy Bloom.

By doing this, Allan has been able to restore dry, arid deserts into flourishing pasture in an astonishingly short period of time.

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.

John's initially passive observations blur into a frenetic, subjective tailspin of delusions and inebriated anxiety; his pretty - boy appearance grows grimy, his white clothes assume the soiled hue of flypaper yellow, and arid grit gets plastered to every surface, caked on every sweaty face.

Twenty minutes later we left the Andes behind and descended into the large, arid valley that Santiago calls home.

With its labyrinth of underground cities and multicolored rock formations that spiral into the sky, ancient civilizations have thrived in this arid desert landscape for more than 8,000 years.

Take a walk into the breathtaking gorge, see dramatic rock formations and arid flora that shaped this ancient landscape.

We wil travel along small villages painted in pink - grey colors merging into the local rock, ruins of kasbahs and ksours and parts of fertile shafts of land creating breathtaking contrast to the arid land.

Built in 300BC, the city has been largely preserved due to the dry and arid climate and the fact it is mostly carved into cliffs.

This short but very interesting two - day trek starts in the lush valley town of Chivay and takes you into the open heart of the canyon where the massive condor swoop and prickly cactus shoot up from the arid earth.

Located in the arid plateau of the Nazca Desert, the Nazca Lines are ancient geoglyphs carved into the stone that have been preserved for centuries.

Adventure into some of Queensland's vast and arid outback and discover striking and contrasting landscapes.

Developer Over the Moon Games is planning to continue ARID's journey and her search for answers later this year, and I can't wait to jump back into this world to find out what challenges await our delightful AI friend.

With a completely new protocol, Arid goes into the global network to find whoever inserted the virus in her in order to save herself.

An extension of Benedict's ongoing investigation into processes of research, collection, extraction and cultivation, this solo exhibition will feature a 4 - channel video installation depicting Benedict's repeated attempts to collect a core sample from the arid, clay - hardened surface of Harper Dry Lake located in Hinkley, CA.

This intimate space takes on the feeling of a bunker in relation to «Smokescreen (Lion & Gazelle)» (2006), on the opposite wall, a photo of an explosion detonating on arid land, its furious clouds of dust throwing into doubt whether the subject really is a lion and a gazelle.

The key threat here involves the expansion of hot and arid conditions into areas that currently sustain large populations: failure of other animal and plant species (including those farmed for food) to adapt quickly enough to such changes and subsequent ecosystem / agricultural collapses would obviously have massive impacts upon us.

It also fails to take into account that a warmer earth will see an increase in deserts and other arid lands, reducing the area available for crops.»