Sentences with phrase «lakes and rivers which»

There is the wine making region in the hills around Maribor to see and Triglav National Park with its mountains, lakes and rivers which flow out the Adriatic and Black Sea.

Not exact matches

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

The city at the mouth of the Manitowoc River on Lake Michigan is home to more than 33,000 renters and homeowners, and got its name from the local Native Americans, which called it «Home of the Good Spirit.»

The Pine Point property consists of a semi-contiguous group of 47 mineral claims and mining leases in the Pine Point District, about 10 km south of Great Slave Lake and accessible from Hay River by all - weather year - round highway which parallels the mining lease block.

Streams and rivers flow into lakes which flow into more streams and rivers until eventually, they all dump into the ocean.

For the drops of rain which fell upon one side flowed into Lake Erie and so out, by the St. Lawrence River, into the Atlantic, and the drops which fell upon the other side flowed into Lake Chautauqua and so out, by the Ohio River and the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico.

One heavily impacted area is the Blackstone River watershed, which spans 545 square miles and encompasses thousands of acres of rivers, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs.

Burke and other supporters compared the BPA ban to a city ordinance adopted in the early 1970s outlawing phosphate detergents, which had been blamed for foul - smelling algae blooms that choked lakes and rivers.

Unlike previous special exhibits like Amphibians and Jellies, which focused on one species or class of animals, this exhibit will focus instead on the various forms of beauty in our lakes, rivers and oceans across the globe.

The International Joint Commission Board, which controls the water level on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, voted to continue record - high water releases at the Moses - Saunders dam in Massena until further notice.

«From Lake Placid's fresh water, to the great St. Lawrence River and down to the Long Island coast, New York boasts world - class fishing experiences like none other, which makes this partnership a perfect fit.

[101] It is located at the origin of the Niagara River, which flows northward over Niagara Falls and into Lake Ontario.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other critics of Plan 2014, which was put in effect at the beginning of last year, blame the plan for last year's widespread flooding along the lake's shore and the upper St. Lawrence River.

Local environmental groups oppose the transport of tar sands crude, which is extremely difficult to clean up, and which they say poses a risk to the Hudson River, Lake Champlain and other areas where railroad tracks run along the shoreline.

Amid ongoing questions about the transparency and management of the International Joint Commission (IJC), Governor Cuomo has called upon President Trump to immediately appoint new leadership to the IJC, which is responsible for regulating water levels on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — The Erie County Department of Environment & Planning («DEP»), in partnership with the Lake Erie Watershed Protection Alliance («LEWPA») and Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, has announced plans to begin Phase II of the Regional Niagara River / Lake Erie Watershed Management Plan following their successful application for New York State Consolidated Funding, which resulted in an award of $ 507,830 from the NYS Department of State to pursue the Plan.

A species of shrimp, dubbed the «demon shrimp,» which was previously unknown in British waters, are attacking and eating native shrimp and disrupting the food chain in some of our rivers and lakes.

Extreme drought in the Colorado River Basin last summer forced the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which manages river flows in the Western U.S., to make a historic announcement: For the 2014 water year (October 2013 through September 2014), the agency will reduce releases of water from Lake Powell — the gargantuan reservoir on the Colorado River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - River Basin last summer forced the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which manages river flows in the Western U.S., to make a historic announcement: For the 2014 water year (October 2013 through September 2014), the agency will reduce releases of water from Lake Powell — the gargantuan reservoir on the Colorado River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - river flows in the Western U.S., to make a historic announcement: For the 2014 water year (October 2013 through September 2014), the agency will reduce releases of water from Lake Powell — the gargantuan reservoir on the Colorado River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - feet.

Mote was one of 12 lead authors on a chapter of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report looking at the cryosphere, which is comprised of snow, river and lake ice, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets and frozen ground.

The two major dams, the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas and the Glen Canyon Dam below Lake Powell in Utah, have had major effects on wildlife and fish in the Colorado River, altering their natural ecosystems, drowning their habitat, and changing the temperatures of the waters in which they evolved.

About 13 percent of U.S. rivers, 18 percent of lakes and 32 percent of estuaries are classified as impaired by stormwater, which means they are rendered unsafe for swimming or fishing.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

The hairs also allow a baby mussel to snag food and begin to grow a shell, which eventually weighs it down and forces the mussel to settle on a lake or river bottom.

Silt - bearing runoff from many activities including construction sites, forestry and farms can inhibit the penetration of sunlight through the water column restricting photosynthesis and causing blanketing of the lake or river bed which in turns damages the ecology.

In addition, they are looking for traces of rivers, lakes, and saltwater bays, which will reveal the region's climate over the course of 2 to 3 million years.

The IJC recommended that the total phosphorus target for Ohio's Maumee River, which drains agricultural land and empties into western Lake Erie, be cut 37 percent during the spring.

There has not been a documented sighting of these cetaceans, which lived in China's Yangtze River and nearby lakes, since 2002.

The flashpoint of the concern has been the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which connects the Illinois River to Lake Michigan.

Alabama also objected, worried about another species: nuclear power plants, which use enormous quantities of water, usually drawn from rivers and lakes, to cool their big reactors.

POMERANIA in Poland is famous for its forests, which are dotted with lakes and crossed by meandering rivers.

Before the river was «leveed off» and the landscape behind it given over to agriculture, La Grange Reach tapped into shallow lakes, thick pockets of woods, and myriad sandbars and sloughs, all of which moderated the flow of nutrients into it.

That water gushes in rivers beneath the ice and collects in lakes, which periodically flood.

Head to your local science center and check out NASA's new short film showcasing the frozen portions of the earth known as the cryosphere, which includes not only glaciers and permafrost but also frozen lakes and rivers and areas with seasonal snowfall.

Most of Oak Ridge's research has been on lake sturgeon and paddlefish, which both live in the Mississippi River Basin, where many of the projects are being proposed.

The lakes they examined are so - called closed - basin lakes, which have rivers feeding into them, but not draining them, meaning that changes in lake levels are governed solely by precipitation and evaporation.

This impaired creek, which runs from Brandt Lake southeast of Madison, South Dakota, and flows into the Big Sioux River, is one of the sites targeted through the 2013 National Water Quality Initiative.

The lake and the Chari River, which flows out of it, constitute the most important water source in the region, and massive irrigation systemsbuilt by Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, the nations that share the lakeare seriously draining it.

Glacier retreat also means less water is available to supply rivers and lakes, such as southern Bolivia's Lake Poopó, which recently dried up.

Endocrine disrupters, which are found in almost 25 percent of our streams, rivers and lakes, can disrupt the normal functions of the endocrine system by mimicking or blocking the activities of hormones in wildlife leading to impaired development.

The new work adds to the diversity of types of wet environments for which evidence exists on Mars, including rivers, lakes, deltas, seas, hot springs, groundwater, and volcanic eruptions beneath ice.

Executive director of the Regional Science Consortium, which coordinates research for Lake Erie and Ohio River Basins, talks buoys in Pennsylvania's Lake Erie waters

Instead of water, liquid methane falls as rain, creates rivers that cut into the hydrocarbon - rich surface, which in turn make valleys, and flows into vast liquid methane lakes.

The researchers also determined that to achieve the best water quality in the Los Angeles River watershed, which covers 824 square miles and is the largest watershed in Los Angeles County, it could take 138,000 vegetated swales (shallow, sloped channels of vegetation) and 83,000 dry ponds (low - lying, depressed areas near rivers and lakes that typically are used to help clean stormwater).

The rest enters the water table, polluting local wells and running off into rivers, lakes and oceans, overloading them with nitrates that create «dead zones» in which aquatic life can not survive.

Some of the meltwater from the lakes and rivers atop the region's glaciers, which end in large sinkholes called «moulins» and barrel down through the glacier, is being stored and trapped on top of the glacier inside a low - density, porous «rotten ice.»

The large layer of ice acts like a blanket trapping that heat, which in turn melts the ice underneath, creating the network of lakes and rivers.

Under the general term of labile N and P species were included those readily leachable forms, which in short time spans (e.g., months), can reach marine coastal or continental (lakes, rivers, etc.) waters.

There are two «peaks» in drowning death ages: those under 5 (drowning is the leading cause of death at this age) in pools, bathtubs, and other water containers, and boys ages 15 to 25 in lakes, rivers, and beaches — all of which increase between May and August.

When Hoak is knocked unconscious, Maggie and Paul accidentally release the piranha into a local river, which leads to the lake where a children's summer camp and a newly opened tourist resort will provide plenty of fish food for the hungry predators.

To recover, insiders recom - mend a trip to the green lungs (Grunewald, Spandauer Forest), the downtown lakes (Wannsee, Mggelsee), and the rivers (Spree and Havel), which are crowded with pleasure boats, water taxis, and container ships.