Sentences with phrase «long migration from»

Winter's when the largest mammal on the planet — the gray whale — makes its very long migration from the chilly Arctic to balmy Baja California.

Our licensed driver / guide had carefully maneuvered the open craft close to the basking gray whales that were here after their long migration from the arctic waters of Alaska.

In Fortescue, New Jersey, a colony of feral cats was moved away from the shore of Delaware Bay in 2011 to help protect red knots, which stop there in huge numbers to gorge on horseshoe - crab eggs to fuel their long migration from the tip of South America to the Arctic.

Not exact matches

«Our illustrative estimate of the long term impact of reduced net migration from the EU27 on UK GDP per capita after Brexit is negative, but relatively small compared to many other uncertainties about average UK income levels in 2030,» said Hawksworth.

Hawskworth warned limiting the migration of skilled workers from the EEA to the UK could have «particularly negative implications for longer term productivity and the UK's international competitiveness.»

«But the Labour party has shied away for too long from listening to, talking about and seeking to address the concerns of people who were worried about the impact that unskilled migration has had on many of our communities.

«We would like to see lower low - skilled migration from Europe,» she said, adding that «countries should be able to take a different approach» to migrants settled for a long time as opposed to newcomers.

Do not ever complain about out migration from NY so long as you support our state subsidizing red states!

The over 25 million Ghanaians who are expecting to enjoy 100 percent digital TV viewing experience this year, 2017 would have to wait a little longer as the deadline for the migration from analog to digital broadcasting has been shifted to 2018.

A partnership of New York groups and a state agency said that it would invest about $ 500,000 to provide legal, mental health and educational support to children on Long Island who recently arrived as part of a surge in illegal migration from Central America.

But then it is not so long since the Conservatives when in opposition criticised Labour after it introduced a points - based system for skilled migration into Britain from outside the EU.

This quenching probably arises from the long - range migration of laser - excited energy states from Yb and toward defects in the nanocrystal.

That could affect everything from birds» daily movements to long - distance migration.

It has long been debated whether that change in subsistence strategy involved the mass migration of people from the Near East bringing innovative technologies and domestic animals to Europe or whether it was due to a transmission of cultural practices passed on from neighbouring populations.

The Porcupine herd of caribou (named for the Porcupine River) in Alaska travel 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) throughout the year from feeding ground to breeding ground — one of the longest overland migrations in the world.

«According to these findings, the receptor family which is important for olfaction in recent insects evolved long after the migration of insects from water to land,» Ewald Große - Wilde summarizes.

Among the possible reasons are the risks of disorientation from artificial lights for birds on long - haul migrations at night.

This doesn't change for thousands of years as these populations remain in apparent isolation in the shelter of the mountains — possibly cut off from other major ancestral populations for as long as 15,000 years — until migrations began again as the Glacial Maximum recedes, and the Yamnaya culture ultimately emerges.

Ornithologists have long wondered why some birds carry more fat than they need to fuel their migration, and a new study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances provides the answer: Leftover fuel from spring migration gives female birds a reproductive boost when they reach their breeding grounds.

In addition to greatly condensing the amount of time it takes to extract and sequence old DNA, new techniques are allowing researchers to pluck sequenceable fragments from ever - more - ancient samples, providing genetic blueprints from long - forgotten epochs of evolution, migration, and ancestry.

Neanderthal DNA from a femur offers scientists proof that a small human group left Africa and disappeared long before the ancient human migration that spearheaded modern human population.

In the long - term, even gradual changes in climate may induce migration from the most affected areas.

A 2008 study led by James Hansen found that climate sensitivity to «fast feedback processes» is 3 °C, but when accounting for longer - term feedbacks (such as ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and greenhouse gas release from soils, tundra or ocean), if atmospheric CO2 remains at the doubled level, the sensitivity increases to 6 °C based on paleoclimatic (historical climate) data.

The modern human ancestor who contributed genes to this particular Neanderthal individual — called the «Altai Neanderthal,» and known from a tiny toe bone fragment — must have migrated out of Africa long before the migration that led Africans into Europe and Asia 60,000 years ago, the scientists say.

There is no real life proof that «races» differ in any meaningful way besides minor ecological and geographical adaptations and evolutionary differences like my long thin nose to pick a rather vulgar example, which clearly changed from my African forefathers due to their migration to colder climates, thus allowing the more efficient heating of the air inhaled, to avoid hypothermia with the minor drawback of restricting the flow of air and thus reducing the amount that can be inhaled compared to those in warmer lands.

I have long waited to see a film about migration that would opt to be optimistic and life - asserting whilst not swerving away from showing the difficulty of choices and the existential loneliness.

As lawsuits multiply and partisans continue to squabble over President Donald Trump's executive order banning migration from six majority - Muslim nations, liberals in the mainstream media have been pushing the line that America's historic tolerance of religious diversity no longer extends to adherents of the Islamic faith.

In 2010, the long anticipated migration of periodicals from print to Web is undeniably underway.

Who taught them where to go during migration, how to return to the same neighborhood or even the same tree after a long winter, what route to take, how to build a nest (with no hands), what materials to use, how to recognize intruders eggs, how to lure predators away from their young, how to use tools to break open hard foods or different tools to reach into crevices too deep for their bills, how to survive bitter cold winters, how to talk, etc... And don't ever tell me they don't feel emotion!

From November to March, California gray whales pass the island on their annual migration — the longest of any mammal.

Gray whales have the longest migration route of any mammal and some of these giants swim as much as 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) round - trip from their summer stay in BC and Alaskan waters to the warmer waters off the Mexican coast.

These small birds make their way though this area during a long winter migration from their... Read More

These small birds make their way though this area during a long winter migration from their arctic nesting sites.

After traveling from the Bering Sea on the longest migration of any mammal, they give birth to their calves and mate to create future generations.

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.

It migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly and makes one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal, traveling some 5,000 miles each way from its northern feeding grounds in Alaska to its breeding and calving grounds in the warm lagoons of Baja Mexico.

While the idea of rewarding people for having played past games of a certain franchise isn't something new, Moore explains EA's take on «persistence,» saying, «We recognize [players]-- that's the persistence — and their presence there gets its achievements and carries them from iteration to iteration,» adding that the idea is no longer to buy one game in order to get goodies for its sequel, but rather have a migration process occur from earlier titles to the next and «move it along.»

Final Fantasy XV is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with Square - Enix attributing its long development time to its migration from PlayStation 3.

The natural world is the counterpoint exhibition, Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to Modern America, tracking through art the centuries - long migration of plants from the jungle to the contemporary garden and cultural imagFrom Pan-Latin Exotic to Modern America, tracking through art the centuries - long migration of plants from the jungle to the contemporary garden and cultural imagfrom the jungle to the contemporary garden and cultural imagery.

Migrations examines how British art has been informed by a long and intricate history of the movement of people to and from the country, raising questions about the formation of a national collection of British art against a continually shifting demographic.

Mark Curran has undertaken a cycle of long - term, ethnographically - informed multimedia research projects addressing the predatory context resulting from migrations and flows of global capital.

Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants — many of them African — drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe from dictatorships, poverty or conflict in countries including; Libya, Syria, Somalia and Eritrea.

I'm of the opinion that it's actually a perfect time for artists to use the world stage of the most respected and long - standing international art exhibition, to address some urgent issues of world politics: In particular migration which is the subject of Vik Muniz's «Lampedusa» (Pace Gallery), a fragile paper boat floats around the Venetian canals, printed with headlines about migrants who died at sea in recent months after attempting to make the treacherous journey from Libya to Lampedusa in Italy.

Back in 2002, when I wrote about «The Megalopolis as Eco-Strategy» (part of a special Science Times section), a lot of scientists told me that the mass migration of humans from rural areas to cities would have environmental benefits in the long run.

The paper uses evidence and modeling to explain how the sun - blocking impact from a 50 - year stretch of unusually intense eruptions of four tropical volcanoes caused sufficient cooling to produce a long - lasting shift in the generation and migration of Arctic Ocean sea ice, with substantial consequences for the Northern Hemisphere climate that lasted centuries and left a deep imprint on European history.

Some of the numerous long - distance migrants will suffer from climate change, because either their migration strategy is unaffected by climate change, or the climate in breeding and wintering areas are changing at different speeds, preventing adequate adaptation.»

In my opinion, continental Europe is at risk to political instability that would result from long - term high rates of unemployment and increased internal migration from poorer to richer regions.

The environmental impacts of Amazon hydropower projects are many and varied, from inundating primary rainforest, driving deforestation, and releasing the potent greenhouse gas methane, to interrupting long - distance aquatic migrations, altering sediment flows and attenuating flood cycles.

Some of the more definitive measures contained in the address ranges from emergency relocations to separation of refugee / migrant claims, the proposal of a permanent relocation mechanism, strengthening the Frontex system, a legal migration package, and a long - term foreign policy goal.

Until landowners are prevented from signing away their land for a generation or more without a requirement they receive independent legal advice, until the legislation and regulation is made transparent to average voters (for example, until they understand why much of what they actually want to appeal may not be appealed so that, from their perspective, they in fact have no right of appeal), until they understand why of all structures it is only the power to approve the erection of wind towers that has been taken away from local municipalities, until they understand why applications for immediately adjacent areas (by gilead and wpd) abutting Lake Ontario in either the most dense or second-most dense bird migration area in all of Eastern Canada may not be joined into one proceeding [guess whose interests that favours]... the list of «untils» is a long one and there is no indication of any change on the way.