Sentences with phrase «live about a kilometer»

In the ocean, such bacteria are most likely to live about a kilometer deep, so ocean biologists have assumed that this region is the source of methylmercury in the ocean.

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Sanguenay, about 200 kilometers north of Quebec City, is apparently Canada's happiest metropolitan city, according to Statistics Canada's life satisfaction study.

My grandmother lives 55 kilometers away from my parents and it's usually about a 40 minutes drive — on a main road where cars drive much faster than in any village, town or city.

She and her colleagues compared the data with those from similar samples given by another ethnic group called the Saluan, who live about 25 kilometers away in the coastal village of Koyoan, but don't spend much time in the water.

Each site varied in the number of people living within one kilometer (about five - eighths of a mile)-- from nearly a dozen to over 17 thousand.

These numbers might look small, but they are quickly creeping toward those figures already present in the resistance epicenter of western Cambodia, about 800 kilometers away, where the mean clearance time in 119 different patients was 5.5 hours, and 42 percent of the infections had a half - life of more than 6.2 hours.

Even in the ocean's deepest trench, about 11 kilometers down, researchers have discovered abundant life.

The clinic, run by non-governmental organizations under the oversight of the Sierra Leone health ministry, provided clinical care for 603 of the 661 survivors of Ebola living in the Port Loko district, about 45 kilometers east of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.

Digby Race of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, in Alice Springs and The Australian National University, in Canberra and colleagues from other universities, report that there is great potential for 200,000 people who live in Australia's vast desert area which covers about 3.6 million square kilometers.

For over 20 years, Smith and his fellow researchers have studied animals living on the abyssal plain at Station M — a deep - sea research site about 220 kilometers (140 miles) off the Central California coast.

For babies born to moms living within one to three kilometers away from a site, the chance of being underweight at birth was about 8 percent greater than for babies of the more distant moms, Currie says.

A switch from driving to walking or bicycling for round trips under eight kilometers (about five miles) in just the 11 largest cities in that region could save nearly 1,300 lives and $ 8 billion annually in costs associated with sick days, hospitalizations, and deaths, according to a 2011 study led by Maggie Grabow, a researcher also working at the Global Health Institute.

Now DOE has projected what the first - year dose would be to people living around the plant up to about 80 kilometers away (see map).

The surfboard - size, wave - powered Papa Mau traveled 16,668 kilometers from San Francisco to Australia's Hervey Bay, tracking information about ocean currents, wind speed and organisms critical to ocean life.

The battery - life meter dipped more quickly than we expected, predicting a total range of only about 100 kilometers (60 - ish miles) by the end, versus the promised 150 kilometers, but that reflects several short and aggressive journalist - helmed test drives in cold weather, the last factor being particularly important, since this car lacks the sort of liquid heating elements found in the Volt.

In his post interview wrap - up, Mark shares a short section from The Healthy Writer that has resonated with him, discusses the importance of optimism in a writer's life, and then shares his own plans to train for a half - marathon later this year and how that ties back to an inspirational talk that Joanna gave in a backlist episode from her own The Creative Penn Podcast about a 100 Kilometer ultra marathon that she completed and what that taught her about her own writing.

This ship, made out of steel and timber, sank during a cyclone just about 60 kilometers from Townsville at Cape Bowling Green, taking the lives of all 121 passengers.

Engaging in the longest migration of any mammal, the California gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) swims 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) each year, spending about one third of its life migrating from the cold, nutrient - rich waters of Alaska, to the warm, shallow lagoons of Baja California.

This resort is located about 80 yards (less than a quarter kilometer) from Hotel Be Live Grand Cancun, and is on the beach.

Kanika Saigal writes for Quartz how threatened elephants that live in dangerous countries are deciding to migrate to safe places, like the Chobe National Park in northern Botswana — a sprawling 4,517 square mile (11,700 square kilometers) sanctuary where elephants can live their elephant lives without having to worry about being shot from a helicopter.

To return to the crisis, if we really want to give 9 billion 250 KWHr each every day of their lives for the full techno - lifestyle indefinitely and leave the atmosphere entirely out of it, we need to build about 1 million square kilometers, 100 square meters per person, of advanced solar cells combined with a variety of energy storage and long distance transmission means.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

A second motorcycle accident, also on June 16, 2011, took a man's life about 75 kilometers east of Ottawa.