Sentences with phrase «larger than the sea»

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It encompasses aging projects in the North Sea, factory - like shale fields from Texas to Pennsylvania, and, oh, by the way, 43,000 gas stations ringing the planet — a larger retail network than that of either McDonald's (mcd) or Starbucks (sbux) x.

Statoil had thought the field could hold more than a billion barrels of oil, which would have made it one of the largest fields in Norway and really opened up the Barents Sea for development.

The Spice Lab sources only the finest quality 100 % natural salt, hand - mined deep in the Himalayan Mountains from salt beds formed in the Jurassic era, more than 250,000,000 years ago when large seas dried out.

2 tablespoons oil (butter / ghee / coconut oil) 1 small / medium onion 1 clove garlic, chopped 3 medium / large golden beets, peeled and diced small (no more than 1/2 inch) 2 medium / large carrots, peeled and sliced 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger 1 teaspoon curry powder (more if you like it spicier) 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin 3/4 teaspoon sea salt (or to taste) 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 4 cups chicken stock or vegetable stock 1 cup coconut milk

Jacki's (and now Melody's) Rich Sourdough Pancakes: 3 large farm fresh eggs 1 cup whole raw milk 2 cups of sourdough starter (can be straight from the fridge, does not have to be recently activated... this is how I almost always make it) 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour (makes a lighter pancake, but I've made it before with spelt flour, which was also pretty tasty, but heavier than most people like pancakes) 1 tsp aluminum free baking soda 2 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp pink himalayan salt (you can use sea salt) 1/4 c. granulated sugar (rapadura, sucanat, whatever floats your boat) 1/4 c. raw butter, melted (I've used organic salted butter before, works fine) Also, for more health benefits, I add about 2 - 3 Tbsp melted coconut oil, which you can use instead of the butter or just use both (I totally use both).

Then DCL launched two larger ships, Disney Dream in 2011 (my first, and favourite — with the incredible «AquaDuck» — the world's first «watercoaster» at sea), and the Disney Fantasy in 2012, both longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall, and with a maximum occupancy of 4000 passengers.

The results suggest that extreme sea levels will likely occur more frequently than previously predicted, particularly in the west coast regions of the U.S. and in large parts of Europe and Australia.

Instead, retaining the claws probably helps northern true seals catch a larger meal than they could with the stiff, slippery fins of other pinnipeds such as sea lions and fur seals, Hocking and his colleagues report April 18 in Royal Society Open Science.

A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea - level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study.

The ability of the inorganic component of sea spray particles to take up water has been the focus of this international study where a large suite of well - controlled laboratory experiments have shown, for the first time, that the hygroscopicity of the inorganic component of sea spray is significantly lower than pure sodium chloride, a substance routinely used to describe their hygroscopicity in climate models.

The largest specimens found in the northern Baltic Sea were less than one centimetre in size.

During that time, temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are today, but sea level stood about 5 to 9 meters higher due to large - scale ice sheet melt.

In late October, an international commission announced an unprecedented agreement more than six years in the making: the world's largest marine protected area, more than twice the size of Texas, in Antarctica's Ross Sea.

More than 12,000 years ago, Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers were grounded on top of a large wedge of sediment, and were buttressed by a floating ice shelf, making them relatively stable even though they rested below sea level.

Dredgers will this summer gouge a hole a kilometre wide in the middle of one of the North Sea's most important crab breeding sites, where researchers last year caught more than 8000 crabs — the largest haul ever taken in British waters.

«These results show that larger marine animals are poised to disappear from the seas faster than smaller ones,» Skog said.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.

Sea levels could rise more than a meter by the end of the century, flooding large parts of Florida.

DEEP DOWN One of the largest seas on Titan, Ligeia Mare, seen in this false - color radar image taken by the Cassini spacecraft, extends more than 200 meters below the moon's surface.

Greenland is more than twice as large as Texas and if the entire ice sheet melted, scientists estimate global sea levels would rise roughly 24 feet.

Lead author, Dr James Hunt from the National Oceanography Centre, said «What is really key here is that submarine volcanic landslides can be so much larger than their better studied counterparts above the sea.

A Korean research team, affiliated with UNIST has presented a new type of underwater adhesives that are tougher than the natural biological glues that mussels normally use to adhere to rocks, ships, and larger sea critters.

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.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is diminishing Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated, according to a new study that uses data from instruments that fly aboard several NASA satellites.

Totten Glacier, one of East Antarctica's largest ocean outlets, is already thinning — an ominous sign, since this single glacier drains enough ice to raise the sea level more than all of West Antarctica's ice loss would.

If the East Antarctic ice sheet, which is 10 times larger than the western ice sheet, melted completely, it would cause sea levels worldwide to rise almost 200 feet, according to Kathy Licht, an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at IUPUI.

Inland, the scientists found it to be a larger fraction than near the coast, where perhaps wind - blown sea salt makes a greater contribution.

The Arctic: Giant cracks larger in total area than the British Isles appeared in August in the Arctic sea ice.

In recent years, my colleagues and I have begun to suspect the reason for this is that large animals do far more than just gobble up food: they also play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing the productivity of the seas.

More than 150 million people globally live within just 1 meter of the sea; in the United States, a sea level rise of 3 meters would inundate many of the East Coast's largest cities, including New York and Miami.

The recent drought is also outside the study's scope because the researchers focused on potentially larger losses in sea ice than have occurred to date.

To find out how such a large slip — greater than 50 metres in places — happened, seismologists on board Japan's deep - sea research vessel Chikyu drilled boreholes nearly 850 metres deep into the seabed around the plate boundary that ruptured in 2011.

Though slightly larger than last year, the minimum sea ice extent 2017 is average for the past ten years and far below the numbers from 1979 to 2006.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

As part of a large survey of possible planet - hosting stars, Lovis and his colleagues used the powerful HARPS (for High Accuracy Radial - Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph at La Silla Observatory in Chile, 2,400 meters above sea level, which can detect stellar motions with precisions of less than one meter per second, roughly the walking speed of a human being.

This sea level rise estimate is larger than that provided by the last IPCC report, but highlights the need for further research on ice sheet variablity and ice sheet response to climate change, both now and in the past.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.

«As a result of the acceleration of outlet glaciers over large regions, the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are already contributing more and faster to sea level rise than anticipated,» he observed.

The global increase in ocean heat content during the period 1993 to 2003 in two ocean models constrained by assimilating altimetric sea level and other observations (Carton et al., 2005; Köhl et al., 2006) is considerably larger than these observational estimates.

The increase in rate relative to the 1901 — 90 trend is accordingly larger than previously thought; this revision may affect some projections11 of future sea - level rise.

This was the fourth smallest August extent since records began in 1979 and about 344,000 square miles larger than the record smallest August sea ice extent in 2012.

Radar observations find that about 80 percent of the surface is covered by lava flows with a few Australia - size uplands of two to five km (1.2 to 3.1 miles) high, and there are large shield volcanoes that rise above the plains as high as 11 km (6.8 miles)-- higher than Mount Everest's eight km (five miles) above Earth sea - level.

«It will be far cheaper to manage the Coral Sea as a single, large no - take area rather than the proposed combination of four separate zones, which include no - take and recreation - only fishing areas,» says Prof. Pressey, who has published a detailed economic analysis of the options.

«With marine ice cliff instability, sea - level rise for the next century is potentially much larger than we thought it might be five or 10 years ago,» Poinar says.

This expected large sea - level rise does of course not surprise us paleoclimatologists, given that in earlier warm periods of Earth's history sea level has been many meters higher than now due to the diminished continental ice cover (see the recent review by Dutton et al. 2015 in Science).

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

The large Eemian sea level excursions imply that substantial ice sheet melting occurred when the world was little warmer than today.

The 2016 Arctic sea ice minimum was 290,000 square miles larger than the record small minimum that occurred in 2012.

Kelp is a type of large seaweed that are famous for growing from the sea floor to the surface, seeking sunlight and can grow at amazingly fast rates, sometimes more than half a meter a day!