Not exact matches
Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long
Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels
of bitumen, sand and
salty water into the surrounding muskeg.
And even the land and the
water of the nearby
lake, which gets
saltier each year because
of the Empire's pollution, will assist this victory.
In 2007, Melanie Mormile
of Missouri University
of Science and Technology in Rolla and colleagues cultured a bacterium from
water sampled from one
of several
salty, acidic
lakes in Western Australia.
The researchers validated their approach by analyzing samples from California's Mono
Lake, an extremely
salty body
of water acting as a stand - in for briny
water on Mars and on some moons.
She explained that the saltiness
of the
lakes — four to five times
saltier than seawater — allows the
water to remain liquid despite below - freezing temperatures.
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles
of fresh
water — more
water than is in
Lake Superior,
Lake Erie,
Lake Ontario and
Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally
salty northern Atlantic.»
In fact, each
of the nine teams
of EPA divers averages over 100 logged missions each year in all varieties
of aquatic habitats, ranging from freshwater
lakes, rivers, and quarries, to brackish estuaries and the
salty waters of the open ocean.
Djibouti COUNTRY ROLL No 50: Djibouti, at the mouth
of the Red Sea, with the
saltiest water on earth,
Lake Assal!
With an average temperature
of eight degrees Fahrenheit, six times
saltier water than seawater, and the highest nitrous oxide levels
of any body
of water on Earth, it's safe to call the
Lake Vida research site a «challenging environment.»
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles
of fresh
water — more
water than is in
Lake Superior,
Lake Erie,
Lake Ontario and
Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally
salty northern Atlantic.»