Sentences with phrase «into lake bottoms»

The cycle works like this: Thawing permafrost dumps tons of previously frozen organic material into lake bottoms, producing methane.

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Honeywell is spending $ 451 million to dredge and cap the lake bottom, and keep industrial contaminants from leaching into the lake.

The covering of about 450 acres of the lake bottom with a sand mixture will continue into 2016.

Cohen and his colleagues figured out the lake's environmental history 1,500 years into the past by taking cores of the lake's bottom sediments and analyzing the biological and chemical history stored in the sediment layers.

At night, shrimp move into the water column, but by dawn they sink back to the lake bottom to hide in crevices and holes, including the shelters that the fish have dug out under stones.

Plans for lowering instruments into the lake to explore the bottom sediment will be postponed until an extra environmental assessment has been completed.

As the permafrost disappears, carbon - rich material like grass roots, once trapped in icy soil, sinks to lake bottoms, where bacteria convert it into the greenhouse gas methane.

Scientists peered into the Sahara's verdant past by analyzing sediment samples drilled out of the bottom of one of the desert's last living lakes.

After an almost - successful suicide attempt number two, which lands her at the bottom of a lake, she learns that sirens are, in fact, real, and they want to turn her into one of them.

Visiting the Azores means getting in touch with nature, seeing gorgeous volcanic landscapes with glistening lakes at the bottom of green - lined calderas, dangerous peaks that fall into the sea, intriguing caves that hide surprising secrets, lava tunnels that lead deep into the heart of the earth and awe - inspiring mountain trails that guide you to otherworldly craters.

Visitors peer into the craters for glimpses of the azure lakes at the bottom and enjoy nearby coffee farms, waterfalls, butterflies and cloud forest trails.

For example, before you would have to ride a monster that lives in the water to dive into the bottom of a lake, but now every monster can be used to swim.

I've lost hours of progress through annoying problems with the save system, seen my companions fly into the sky and disappear, even failed a mission because of an NPC that decided to walk to the bottom of a lake.

nd fisherman have built rickety cabins that sit on thin wooden piers driven into the muddy lake bottom.

In contrast to the verticality of traditional sculpture, these fountains descend into underground microcosmic topographies that recall the banks of a river or the bottom of a lake, as it reveals fictitious undergrowth uncovered by the removal of a few paving stones.

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WASHINGTON, May 9 (by Karin Zeitvogel for RIA Novosti)-- A team of scientists from the United States, Russia and Germany who drilled into the bottom of a Siberian lake, found that the Arctic was not covered in a sheet of ice 3.6 million years ago as it is today, but was warm and forested, a study published Thursday says.

A team of scientists from the United States, Russia and Germany who drilled into the bottom of a Siberian lake, found that the Arctic was not covered in a sheet of ice 3.6 million years ago as it is today, but was warm and forested, a study published Thursday says.

In the spring of 2009, the team of researchers drilled through the ice on the surface and into the bottom of Lake El» gygytgyn, which lies around 62 miles (100 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle.

From the University of California — Berkeley Deep sediments are unparalleled record of biotic changes over past 200,000 + years University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals will adapt to climate change...

In addition, there are a completely unknown number of thermal vents directly warming the bottoms of the oceans, and some lakes, emitting a completely unknown amount of heat into the deep water.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

Methane In conditions without oxygen, such as at the bottom of a lake orthe sea, decomposition turns organic matter into methane, rather than carbon dioxide.

«You go down into the bottom of the ocean and you are looking at a lake or a river flowing.