Sentences with phrase «kilometers since»

The overall width of the distribution of Outlooks has narrowed compared to last year: the interquartile spread across all types of contributions is 0.53 million square kilometers, which is a decrease of 0.27 million square kilometers since last year.

Switzerland's Great Aletsch glacier, the largest in the Alps, has retreated by more than 2 kilometers since 1900.

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«First signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer: September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000.»

Foresters strongly favored planting more commercially valuable coniferous trees — such as Scots pines, Norway spruce and beech — resulting in the reforestation of 633,000 square kilometers of conifers at the expense of broadleaved forests, which decreased by 436,000 square kilometers since 1850.

Low - oxygen zones where large ocean species can not live have increased by close to 5.2 million square kilometers since the 1960s, the team found.

«Throughout the region, they have retreated by close to a kilometer since the last ice age, and are predicted to disappear in the next one to three decades.

Not exact matches

The Public Service Commission approved TransCanada Corp.'s project on a three - to - two vote, removing one of the last hurdles to the Calgary - based company's construction of the $ 8 billion, 1,179 - mile (1,897 - kilometer) conduit, which has been on its drawing boards since 2008.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The city also has coated 0.62 square kilometers of roof surfaces white since 2009.

In a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.

For about 10 kilometers, the river passes through the Hobet 21 surface mining complex, which has been active since the 1970s and is among the largest in the Appalachian coalfields.

Using satellites, ground - based instruments, and ozone - measuring weather balloons, they showed that since 2000, the September hole shrunk by 4 million square kilometers — an area bigger than India.

Even with a generous assumption that all Himalayan glacial melting since 1962 (roughly 13.4 cubic kilometers per year) was concentrated in the 150 - kilometer stretch of land closest to the study zone rather than spread across the entirety of the Himalayas, the scientists could explain, at most, 15 percent of the water loss in northwestern India.

An international team of scientists have been pouring over data streaming back from the Venus Express since April 2006 when it began surveying Venus, which at its minimum distance is around 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) from Earth.

Since the neutron star propagates with an estimated speed of at least 350 kilometers per second, the asymmetry in the spatial distribution of the radioactive elements is expected to be very pronounced.

Remote dams around the world already deliver hydropower via HVDC lines, including a 1,480 - kilometer (920 - mile) link that has carried energy from James Bay in northern Quebec to New England since 1990.

And costing just $ 11,000 for each kilometer of stream, artificial dam reinforcements are much cheaper than conventional restoration methods — since the beavers do most of the work for us.

This iceberg, named UK211, had survived for three years since calving off the Larsen C ice shelf 385 kilometers south, but now it was drifting into warm climates north of the peninsula.

Since they are phenomenally dense and massive, yet comparatively small — a mere 20 - 25 kilometers across — some pulsars are able to maintain their rate of spin with a consistency that rivals the best atomic clocks on Earth.

But since its landing, close to 3 years ago, Curiosity has covered less then 11 kilometers of martian terrain.

Since 2003 the GRACE satellites had measured ice loss through variations in the earth's gravitation but only at the fuzzy resolution of hundreds of kilometers.

Since launching in 2007, Dawn has already visited Vesta, a giant protoplanet currently located 104 million miles (168 million kilometers) away from Ceres.

The hexagon, known since the 1980s, is about 30,000 kilometers wide with a massive hurricane centered on the north pole (SN: 1/11/14, p. 10).

Since then, the area has experienced a series of problems, including dozens of landslides along one 20 - mile (32 - kilometer) stretch of riverbank.

Since then the paiche has spread across more than 340 square kilometers, roughly a quarter of the Bolivian Amazon.

Since then, the region has risen about 2 kilometers, leading to some head scratching at geology conferences.

Since that year the minimum ice cover has declined rapidly, dwindling to an all - time record low of 3.4 million square kilometers on September 16, 2012.

The team found that the September ozone hole has shrunk by more than 4 million square kilometers — about half the area of the contiguous United States — since 2000, when ozone depletion was at its peak.

Since that discovery hundreds of large objects, most more than 100 kilometers in diameter, have been spotted in the Kuiper Belt, including some of the roughly Pluto - size bodies that spurred a redefinition of the word «planet» and relegated Pluto to dwarf status.

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a planned 87 - kilometer ring in Texas, would have crashed protons together at higher energies than any accelerator before or since, dwarfing even the current Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where the Higgs boson was discovered.

Satellites from NASA and other agencies have been tracking sea ice changes since 1979, and the data show that Arctic sea ice has been shrinking at an average rate of about 20,500 square miles (53,100 square kilometers) per year over the 1979 - 2015 period.

Since bursting to life 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in 2013, a massive marine volcano called Nishinoshima has erupted dozens of times, spewing red - hot lava that engulfed a neighboring island.

Nestled in a steep fjord beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, the lost world of Lake Ellsworth has haunted Martin Siegert's dreams ever since he got involved in subglacial research a dozen years ago.

Since 2001, the ISA has granted 26 mining exploration contracts covering more than one million square kilometers of seabed, with 18 of these contracts granted in the last four years.

Since then, they've learned that about 100,000 spicules constantly dot the sun, rifling more than 5000 kilometers high within a few minutes.

Since 2009, the Peregrine Fund has translocated 104 nestlings from the species» stronghold in a national park to a protected resort area called Punta Cana 130 kilometers away.

Since the discovery, researchers have found 91 other Tahina palms, along with 50 seedlings, all within a quarter - kilometer stretch of the island.

Antarctic sea ice extent reached a record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

It will be exactly 30 years tomorrow since the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred on a three - mile (five kilometer) slip of land in the Susquehanna River in the shadow of Harrisburg, Pa..

Since Polynesia had been settled by voyagers crossing thousands of kilometers of ocean, we thought a two - kilometer journey by outrigger canoe would be a modest homage to those intrepid explorers, particularly since we were assured that such canoes are unsinkSince Polynesia had been settled by voyagers crossing thousands of kilometers of ocean, we thought a two - kilometer journey by outrigger canoe would be a modest homage to those intrepid explorers, particularly since we were assured that such canoes are unsinksince we were assured that such canoes are unsinkable.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

Researchers don't know the route she took to reach the Grand Canyon, but she likely traveled more than 700 kilometers on that journey — becoming the first wolf in northern Arizona since the animals were exterminated there 70 years ago.

Since 1994, a more than 26 - mile -(42 - kilometer --RRB- long tunnel has been keeping Milwaukee's sewage from spilling into Lake Michigan.

As wind and rain erode the mountain range, massive rivers carry more than a billion tons of sediment into the Bay of Bengal each year; in some places, the layer deposited since the most recent ice age is more than one kilometer thick.

Edinburgh - based Pelamis Wave Power, Ltd., (PWP) has since September been working with asset management firm Babcock & Brown, energy provider Energias de Portugal, and Efacec (a Portugese maker of electromechanical devices) on the Agucadoura project, which has three red Pelamis wave energy converts bobbing in the waves three miles (4.8 kilometers) off Portugal's coast.

This New York State — based environmental research organization since 2004 has studied wildlife in and on the banks of the Hudson River as well as the toll development has taken on the 315 - mile (500 - Kilometer) waterway, which runs south from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic Ocean.

A new study of the Jones earthquake swarm, occurring near Oklahoma City since 2008, demonstrates that a small cluster of high - volume injection wells triggered earthquakes tens of kilometers away.

Maria's eye assaulted the town of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of nearly 250 kilometers per hour (155 miles per hour)-- the high end of category 4 — making it the strongest storm to hit the island since the San Ciprian Hurricane of 1932.

Capping a decadeslong custody battle, an aboriginal funeral service hearse set off on 14 November from the Australian National University in Canberra — where the remains were kept since their discovery — on a 700 - kilometer drive across the outback to Willandra Lakes.