Sentences with phrase «large water bodies»

The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, suggest that the ecological consequences of some of the world's 36,000 dams may be felt by large water bodies rather than simply the dammed rivers themselves and the surrounding lands.

The work suggests that some environmental problems in large water bodies may be traced to faraway dams.

Cardenas and colleagues conclude that similar falling and rising water levels in a large water body forced the formation of the paleo - valleys in their study area.

Italy's third largest water body and one of Europe's deepest, Lake Como has drawn vacationers for two millennia with its lucent waters, mountain landscapes, and Mediterranean climate.

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If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

In reference to the flood, one of the most important points to grasp is that in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of powerful deities.

Or what about the humpback whale, that although it weighs about 30 tons, as much as a loaded truck, and has a relatively stiff body with large wing - like flippers, that this 40 foot mammal is remarkably agile under water?

We have a classic large water tower no longer used that a brilliant developer turned into a high end restaurant that you go up in an elevator to get into as it is inside the main body of the water tower.

Humans can't drink large amounts of salt water because ironically in order to keep the delicate balance of salt and water in our bodies, the body will try to excrete the excess salt — through urine, and the result is dehydration.

Stand near a large body of water — you can see the curvature of the earth.

Hearing a little voice say «Mama...» every 15 minutes or so through the night is both cute and utterly exhausting; his tiny hot little body pressed up against mine, like having a incredibly large hot water bottle next to me.

Commonwealth environmental water was delivered to maintain water quality in refuge pools and to provide habitat for large - bodied native fish species present in the Lower Darling River.

ABWI's membership body is made up of large and small producers of packaged water, as well as suppliers to the industry.

These large, deep bodies of water help moderate temperatures, which makes Ontario an ideal place to grow apples.»

Whether you select a party boat or a wakeboard / ski boat, you'll enjoy exploring the beauty of one of the largest bodies of water in Vermont.

You have likely went 8 hours or so through the night without consuming any water so your body would graciously welcome a large glass of water each morning.

Through large consumption of water we can help remove toxins from our body.

When sick children have diarrhea or are vomiting, they can lose large amounts of salts and water from their bodies can become dehydrated very quickly.

But this also means that plenty of water will be getting stuck in some of the body's interstitial spaces, which means that mom is going to look a bit larger than she really is.

And from there, your doctor can advise you on when it would be okay to give your baby a larger amount to drink, as his / her body gets used to processing water on its own.

The Hudson Bay is another large body of water up in Canada too.

The projects the Cuomo administration has allowed to move forward have been along existing right - of - ways, crossed few water bodies or wetlands or involved increased capacity without new or larger pipeline construction.

In legalizing it means giving it a law and also make it very clear that nobody, whether you are a large scale, small scale or galamsey scale... but none of them must be allowed to mine in any of the water bodies.

Crestwood - Midstream, a Texas - based oil and gas corporation, is threatening these thriving industries with its proposals to locate and expand gas storage along Seneca Lake, the largest fresh water body in New York and over half of the water in the Finger Lakes.

Looking at who members don't want as leader, predictably enough there is a large body of members on the right of the party steadfastly opposed to Ken Clarke — 54 % of «Blue water» Tories say Ken should definitely not be leader.

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

A larger body requires more energy to move, so jellies let the surrounding water do the work for them, which makes them some of the slowest swimmers in the sea.

Its gravitational tug pushes and pulls large bodies of water, and when the moon is full, it's also at a position in its monthly orbit to be at its strongest.

«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.

Fish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind as they wriggle their way along are evidence of a constant give - and - take of energy between the swimmer and its aqueous environment — a momentum exchange that propels the fish forward but is devilishly tricky to quantify because of the continuous nature of a large, ever - flowing body of water.

Seasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Nino / ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.

Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activiWater pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activiwater bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activities.

The evidence comes in the form of trace elements located in and around the Red Planet's vast northern plains, a low - lying region that might once have held a body of water large enough to blanket nearly one - third of the planet.

Indeed, a study in 2006 suggested that Mars may have gone through an acidic phase, triggered by active volcanism, after an early period in which it had a denser atmosphere and large bodies of neutral - pH water on its surface.

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

The prevailing view has been that planets mostly accumulate water only long after they form: If a young planet with water trapped in its rocks collides with another heavenly body or even large debris — common occurrences in the cosmos — the impact would, presumably, drive accumulated water into space, leaving many planets bone - dry.

Some scientists are concerned that — if the pyrosomes die en masse — they could create a large «dead zone,» as their decaying bodies suck oxygen from the water.

The selective extinction of large - bodied animals could have serious consequences for the health of marine ecosystems, the scientists say, because they tend to be at the tops of food webs and their movements through the water column and the seafloor help cycle nutrients through the oceans.

Maximum sea depth between the mainland and islands was a secondary driver of body size, with treeshrews on islands separated from the mainland by deeper waters typically exhibiting larger body size, the researchers said.

According to previous criteria, water creates large bodies that don't inter-mix, which allows them to be differentiated.

Titan is the only place in the solar system, besides Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface, though its seas are composed of hydrocarbons such as methane rather than water.

Both fish live in Lake Tanganyika, a body of water so large it is shared between four countries — Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.

It is unclear just how much it will cost to tap into energy from large bodies of water.

During the Triassic, the world's continents were locked together in a single supercontinent called Pangaea, allowing animals to roam unimpeded by large bodies of water.

Once upon a time the Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest inland body of water.

As the contaminated water flows into larger and larger bodies of water, it will become increasingly diluted.

For this reason nuclear power plants are typically sited near large bodies of water, often seas or estuaries.

A larger mouth would mean taking in more water and filtering out more prey per gulp, and a larger body could more efficiently travel long distances between feedings.

Watersheds are areas of land with streams and rivers that all drain into a larger body of water, such as a bigger river, a lake or an ocean.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.