Sentences with phrase «kilometer area in»

On 18 May, NOAA shut down fisheries in a 118,000 - square - kilometer area in the gulf.

Anticipating the arrival of B. dendrobatidis in El Copé, Panama, as a wave of infection advanced from the northwest of the country, co-author Karen Lips, a biologist at the University of Maryland in College Park, began leading field surveys in the 4 - kilometer area in 1998.

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MC: Pure Gold Mining Inc. (PGM: TSX.V; Not Rated) owns a land package, the Madsen gold project, comprising approximately 45 square kilometers of ground within the Red Lake district in northwestern Ontario, making it the third largest landowner in the area.

The Company's other material exploration project is the property comprising a 47.3 square kilometers licence area in eastern Kazakhstan (the Karchiga Project), which is part of the Rudny Altai polymetallic belt.

In one area of India, more than 20 square kilometers of soil have been lost to salinization, while in Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extenIn one area of India, more than 20 square kilometers of soil have been lost to salinization, while in Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extenin Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extent.

Coffee farms are often located adjacent to protected areas; in many countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, more than 30 % of the area surrounding coffee regions (50 - kilometer radius) falls within protected areas (Jha et al. 2012).

Over its eight kilometer length, you are treated to a landscape of hills in an area of magnificent 200 year old maple, beech and oak trees.

RSPB have at least three fantastic home education resources: WildSquare gets you involved in surveys that cover a one kilometer square area near your home.

He also appealed for the roads in the area to be rehabilitated because they were in a deplorable state, especially, the 10.5 kilometer Nyanoa through the Abakrom to Esaaso road.

The source said: «With the killing of the bandit commander Buhari Daji at Nabango area under Birnin - Gwari local government of Kaduna State just 16 kilometers to Dansadau in Zamfara state, there were strange movements of some of the armed men in the area.

A network of smaller peatlands in the Amazon Basin adds up to 629,000 square kilometers, an even larger area than the Congo find, says study coauthor Louis Verchot of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia.

Recorded in extreme ultraviolet light, it covers a 230,000 - by - 77,000 kilometer area on the sun's surface and shows a one - million - degree solar plasma cooling down.

By 2017, excessive nitrogen from agriculture had created a hypoxic zone in the Gulf extending 22,729 square kilometers (8775.7 square miles)-- an area larger than the state of New Jersey.

India is also embarking on a $ 168 billion National River Linking Project that envisages constructing more than 15,000 kilometers of canals and tunnels to shunt water to parched areas of the country; the government allocated $ 16.6 million in the coming year for preparatory work.

When SKA is completed in the late 2020s, it will be the world's largest radio telescope and science infrastructure, with the total area of the dishes measuring one square kilometer.

The river begins its journey from the snowpack in the central Rocky Mountains and travels south 1,450 miles (2,330 kilometers), draining an expansive yet arid area that encompasses parts of seven US and two Mexican states.

In 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto RicIn 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Ricin spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Rico.

The minimum average microplastics pollution was found in the stretch between Basel and Mainz (202,900 particles per square kilometer), a medium average at Bad Honnef, Köln - Porz and Leverkusen (714,053) and the highest average in the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area (2,333,665).

Auger consist of 1660 particle detectors covering 3000 square kilometers, an area nearly the size of Rhode Island, in the Pampa Amarilla in Argentina.

The results, published today in Scientific Reports, reveal that the GPGP, defined as the area with more than 10 kg of plastic per km2, measures 1.6 million square kilometers, three times the size of continental France.

According to a 2013 analysis conducted by Packer, it is cheaper to manage lions in fenced reserves at around $ 500 per square kilometer (not counting the high cost of installing the fence in the first place) than in unfenced areas, where $ 2,000 is only sufficient for managing a population at half its potential density.

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

Previous attempts to image mantle plumes have detected pockets of hot rock rising in areas where plumes have been proposed, but it was unclear whether they were connected to volcanic hotspots at the surface or the roots of the plumes at the core mantle boundary 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) below the surface.

All in all, ThunderFish has a surface area of 64 square kilometers to scan.

Stressed trees no longer store as much CO2 The U.K. - Brazil research team that produced the new study used satellite measurements of dry season rainfall to estimate the magnitude of the two droughts over a study area of 5.3 million square kilometers in the southwest Amazon.

The past five years has seen a spurt in the creation of giant marine protection areas, including a 320,000 square - kilometer marine reserve announced earlier this month in Australia.

These researchers analyzed passengers arriving in the United States who left airports in Brazil located within 50 kilometers of areas that potentially could transmit Zika year - round.

Cerro Hoya National Park is an isolated tropical forest remnant (325 square kilometers, 125 square miles) on Panama's Pacific coast, whereas Darién National Park is Panama's most extensive park (5,790 square kilometers, 2235 square miles) in the area between Panama and Colombia, the only gap in the Pan-American highway from Alaska to Chile.

And between 1995 and 2006 an average of 19,497 square kilometers of forest was cleared in the Amazon annually, or an area equal to that covered by roughly 3.5 million American football fields.

In one extreme instance, a family left the area at once, traveling more than a kilometer before they came to a halt — but they did so in response to the call of an elephant they all kneIn one extreme instance, a family left the area at once, traveling more than a kilometer before they came to a halt — but they did so in response to the call of an elephant they all knein response to the call of an elephant they all knew.

But if proposed protections are put in place, the study projects a much smaller area of forest would be lost — 41,650 square kilometers, over 113,000 square kilometers less than under the agricultural development scenario.

With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

The crude, spilled in the Loreto Department in the northeastern part of the country, has contaminated at least 30 kilometers of the Chiriaco River and has spread into Marañon River, one of the main tributaries that feed the Amazon drainage area.

But they note that their calculations place the major slip area in the Lushan quake about 40 to 50 kilometers apart from the southwest end of the Wenchuan quake fault.

In areas with no piles, about two ravens show up per square kilometer.

A 14 - square - kilometer enclosure in central Australia is once again home to bouncing baby bilbies, thanks to the efforts of a project aimed at restoring a larger area to pre-European condition.

The newly described venomous snake has been reported only in a small, 320 - square - kilometer area of Golfo Dulce.

This area, some 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth in the direction of the sun, is a gravitational no man's land, where it's easy for any object with the right velocity to cross the border between the sun's and Earth's tug.

In order to do so a team led by GFZ scientist Torsten Sachs performed a study in a 10,000 square kilometers wide area in Northern CanadIn order to do so a team led by GFZ scientist Torsten Sachs performed a study in a 10,000 square kilometers wide area in Northern Canadin a 10,000 square kilometers wide area in Northern Canadin Northern Canada.

The array comprises dishes in 10 locations from Hawaii to Puerto Rico, simulating a radio telescope with a collecting area thousands of kilometers wide.

The single - day maximum area was similar to that in 2013, which reached 24.0 million square kilometers (9.3 million square miles).

The new iceberg, afloat in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, has an area of about 185 square kilometers (72 square miles).

The outbreak zone in the DRC is in a remote area approximately 1200 kilometers north of Kinshasa.

Anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida teamed with the local Kuikuro people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to uncover 28 towns, villages and hamlets that may have supported as many as 50,000 people within roughly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) of forest — an area slightly smaller than New Jersey.

More than 2000 aftershocks in the region around the epicenter, a mountainous area some 100 kilometers northeast of Rome, have caused only minor damage.

Swiss scientists have discovered a new species of aculeate wasp, not hidden somewhere in a jungle on a remote continent, but in Central Europe, in a swampy area just a few kilometers from Zurich.

The project's organizers originally intended to bore a 4 - kilometer - deep well in the area of the caldera late in 2009, but the plan was put on hold by then - mayor Rosa Russo Iervolino after scientists expressed concerns about the risks.

In the next few years, the government will consolidate and expand protection across 15,000 square kilometers of prime cat habitat and conservation areas.

Hill found that the babies born to mothers within 2.5 kilometers (a little over 1.5 miles) of drilled gas sites were 25 percent more likely to have low birth weight compared to those in non-drilled areas.

The Indonesian supervolcano Toba had one of these eruptions about 73000 years ago, when 2800 cubic kilometers of volcanic ash was ejected into the atmosphere and rained down and covered enormous areas in Indonesia and India.