Sentences with phrase «land mass covered»

With 40 percent of its land mass covered by tropical forests, many Latin American countries have a tremendous opportunity to reduce their global warming emissions.

9137 cubic km is approximately equivalent to Canada's entire land mass covered by 1 m of ice [9,137,000 sq km x 1m].

Once, his theory went, a single land mass covered the entirety of a smaller planet.

Not exact matches

It would have to rain 6 inches a minute all over the world at the same time to to cover the land mass.

Because of the sheer mass of land the lone pastors had to cover, they were only able to visit Dunton every few weeks.

He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

CCN's 37 members serve over 23 million people living in counties that cover over 86 % of England's land mass.

Desert lands cover about a quarter of Earth's land mass and are home to some half a billion people and yet they are commonly portrayed as extreme places with marginalized communities.

Lichens are omnipresent worldwide and may cover up to six percent of the Earth's land mass.

Boreal forest covers an incredible 50 per cent of Canada's land mass and has evolved quite differently from the boreal forests of Northwestern Europe say Boonstra, who co-authored a book on Canada's boreal forest ecosystem.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Location.

Because much of Earth's land mass is covered by plants, there is a large source of these biogenic aerosol particles that need to be accounted for in climate change prediction.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targeted.

Russia is a diverse, culturally rich and the LARGEST COUNTRY in the world, covering about one ninth of earth's land mass.

Just three percent of the state's population lives here, and a single area code covers a land mass that's larger than Delaware, Rhode Island, and Connecticut combined.

Neither feral cats, nor even just a giant rug made from their fur, really cover all the nearly three million square miles of Australia, the world's sixth largest nation by land mass.

The United States of America covers such an incredible land mass that a huge variety of amazing animals can be seen here.

By the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian Empire covered one sixth of the world's land mass, stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west, all the way to Alaska in the east.

Just 11 km long and 2 km wide, two thirds of its land mass is covered by Banyan, Pandanus and native Kentia Palm forests, its many perfect beaches are safe, pristine and tranquil.

Although very small, covering only 0.1 % of the world's land mass, Costa Rica contains 5 - 7 % of the worlds biodiversity and is home to an assortment of plants and animals.

Whilst Automatron aimed to please in terms of companion customisation, and Wasteland Workshop with a massive influx of settlement construction options, Far Harbor looks to me like it is designed to cover everything, offering new weapons, new characters, new settlements, and new workshop items as well as an actual moving vehicle to ferry the player to and from the new land mass.

Obama is a fan of wind energy, but according to a professor at the University of Virginia, in order to create as much energy as one coal plant, we'd need wind arrays covering a land mass the size of Tennessee.

Notably, by studying the clouds over a limited region of the atmosphere over the eastern Pacific Ocean, as well as over nearby land masses, the team at the university's International Pacific Research Centre have declared themselves firmly in the latter camp, warning that, as temperatures continue to creep steadily upwards over the next 100 years, cloud cover will become thinner and more - sparse, thereby serving to exacerbate the problem.

Abundant, clean and easy to process, algae can produce energy for transportation equivalent to the energy in biofuel produced by crops that cover a land mass three times the U.S.

Snow cover can keep heat from escaping from the land, allowing the formation of cold air masses and limiting frost's penetration into the ground.

Of course, with the conquest of the land, there was a huge change in the albedo of the land mass around 450 million years ago, and the albedo changed completely when the vast majority of the land was eventually covered by plant life some 200 million years ago.

So considering that we could build 2,000 of those plants and not even cover one millionth of the planets LAND mass (just 380 square miles.)

The Greenland ice sheet is poised for another record melt this year, and is approaching a «tipping point» into a new and more dangerous melt regime in which the summer melt area covers the entire land mass, according to new findings from polar researchers.

Accounting for the considerable disagreement among satellite - era observational datasets on the distribution of snow water equivalent, CanESM2 has too much springtime snow cover over the Canadian land mass, reflecting a broader Northern Hemisphere positive bias.

The maps show the temperature of most of the northern hemisphere centred on the North Atlantic and cover the bulk of the northern hemisphere land masses and the northernmost section of the Atlantic Ocean.

While there is some pro-northern hemisphere bias, the operators of Landsat 8 have made a concerted effort to distribute the collection of imagery more evenly over all of the Earth's land masses, with the exception of a few large areas that are chronically impaired by heavy haze, dust, smog, or cloud cover.

In the article and subsequent aimiable exchange with Nordhaus, Dyson touted no fewer than three possible crackpot mega-schemes as contingency «low - cost backstops» against global warming: «carbon - eating trees» covering fully a quarter of Earth's vegetated land mass, «carbon - eating phytoplankton in the oceans», and «snow - dumping in East Antarctica» (via «a giant array of tethered kites or balloons so as to block the westerly flow on one side only.»)

AFAIK man was certainly on the planet long before the end of the last ice age, when there was an ice cap covering a great deal of the Northern hemisphere land mass (I don't know about the Southern).

The team's early results show that the ocean retains areas of open water in the tropics, even when glaciers cover much of the land mass.

I've heard some of the most ridiculous claims by climate change advocates about how we're all going to be dead in a decade or two, how we'll see the oceans rise to cover almost all the land masses and other extreme nonsense.

In Canada, about 42 % of the land mass is covered by forests.

Ted Trainer made the assumption that Australia or similar sized land masses (eg China, US, Europe + N Africa, India + middle east) would have several days of almost no wind and high cloud cover.

This configuration will assist with robbing what cold air there is in the Arctic, and will push this air south in an almost perfect outline that will cover the land mass of the lower 48 states.

In one simulation, the researchers covered much of the northern hemisphere (above 20 ° latitude) with forests and saw a jump in surface air temperature of more than 6 ° F. Covering the entire planet's land mass with trees led to a more modest increase of about 2 ° F.

Further, there has been an almost worldwide reduction in glacial mass and extent in the 20th century; melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet has recently become apparent; snow cover has decreased in many Northern Hemisphere regions; sea ice thickness and extent have decreased in the Arctic in all seasons, most dramatically in spring and summer; the oceans are warming; and sea level is rising due to thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of land ice

If all the salt were removed from the oceans and deposited on land the resulting mass of salt would cover all available land on Earth to a depth of approximately 500 hundred feet.

Blockstream Satellite covers across two - thirds of the Earth's land mass and, according to the company, additional coverage areas will soon come online to reach almost every person on the planet by the end of the year.