Sentences with phrase «many square kilometers»

Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

A lawsuit filed Monday claims the Trump administration ignored policies meant to protect the greater sage grouse when the government sold oil and gas leases across 475 square miles (1,230 square kilometers) in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.

Western Watersheds Project and Center for Biological Diversity also want to block upcoming sales covering 1,800 square miles (4,662 square kilometers) in those four states plus Idaho.

The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court seeks to reverse lease sales across 475 square miles (1,230 square kilometers) in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

The project will cover 50 islands and 34,000 square kilometers — an area bigger than Belgium — between the cities of Umluj and Al Wajh to attract «luxury travelers from around the globe,» according to an official statement sent to Bloomberg on Tuesday.

For example, the report pointed out the population densities in Australia and Canada are 3.1 and 3.9 people per square kilometer.

Heilongjiang Province is also mulling expanding its soybean cultivation to 11.5 million mu (7,666 square kilometers) of rotation plough land and providing subsidies to the farmers involved.

The Alberta government has leased almost 100,000 square kilometers of the oil sands deposit, so the potential certainly exists for an industrial project on the scale of England, if a little smaller.

Through two separate joint venture agreements, one with Millennium Minerals and another with the Creasy Group, Novo is undertaking systematic exploration for gold - bearing reefs across this approximately 560 square kilometer project.

Novo owns the approximately 10 square kilometer Beatons Creek Tenements in Western Australia and has the right to earn a 70 % interest in the approximately 1,800 square kilometer Pilbara Paleoplacer Gold Project (includes the Beatons Creek and Marble Bar paleoplacer gold projects) in Western Australia from the Creasy Group.

MC: Pure Gold Mining Inc. (PGM: TSX.V; Not Rated) owns a land package, the Madsen gold project, comprising approximately 45 square kilometers of ground within the Red Lake district in northwestern Ontario, making it the third largest landowner in the area.

The Company's other material exploration project is the property comprising a 47.3 square kilometers licence area in eastern Kazakhstan (the Karchiga Project), which is part of the Rudny Altai polymetallic belt.

In summary, we would point out that from 1960 to 1980 beef production in Central America increased 160 percent; of the 400,000 square kilometers of rain forest that existed in 1960 in Central America less than one - half remained by 1980 (Myers 1981).

About the tenth century, when the ancient Scandinavians, the Vikings, were frequenting North America, the humid portion of the east, as far as the mid-east of what is now the United States of North America, was covered by a dense forest of 1.6 million square kilometers.

In one area of India, more than 20 square kilometers of soil have been lost to salinization, while in Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extent.

In the world as a whole, topsoil disappears each year in an amount equivalent to the total topsoil of the entire vast wheat belt of Australia which covers 113,000 square kilometers.

As a demonstration of the potential of the Sentinel program, sarmap and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have generated mosaics, composed from several Sentinel - 1A images that cover 7 million square kilometers of South and Southeast Asia.

According to him, the prediction has sadly become reality as the lake which covers over 25,000 square kilometers in 1925 have shrunk to 2,500 square kilometers.

The report finds that Lake Erie has the highest concentration of the beads out of all the Great Lakes with roughly 46,000 per square kilometer.

A network of smaller peatlands in the Amazon Basin adds up to 629,000 square kilometers, an even larger area than the Congo find, says study coauthor Louis Verchot of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia.

By 2017, excessive nitrogen from agriculture had created a hypoxic zone in the Gulf extending 22,729 square kilometers (8775.7 square miles)-- an area larger than the state of New Jersey.

Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.

Their analysis, recently published in Geology, reveals a subglacial lake covering as much as 1,250 square kilometers (making it the second - largest subglacial lake in Antarctica by length after Lake Vostok) and a series of canyons that extend a kilometer deep and 1,100 kilometers across.

The later arrival indicated by Planck is good news for observers hoping to see the light from the first stars with next - generation instruments that will soon come online, like the James Webb Space Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array.

The city also has coated 0.62 square kilometers of roof surfaces white since 2009.

In 2016, he and colleagues produced a report for the city of Louisville, Ky., that analyzed the impact of adding 450,000 trees, converting 168 square kilometers of surfaces to cool materials and more.

The ambitious, unprecedentedly vast Square Kilometer Array project should open up new realms in astrophysics.

However, in order to come close to achieving a reduced target hypoxic zone of 5,000 square kilometers (1930.5 square miles) by 2050, nitrogen levels would have to be brought to zero — a scenario that the researchers note in their paper is «not only considered unrealistic, but also inherently unsustainable.»

Encompassing all of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Papahnaumokukea covers an area of 362,000 square kilometers and is home to 85 percent of the 1,100 Hawaiian monk seals surviving today.

When SKA is completed in the late 2020s, it will be the world's largest radio telescope and science infrastructure, with the total area of the dishes measuring one square kilometer.

Using satellites, ground - based instruments, and ozone - measuring weather balloons, they showed that since 2000, the September hole shrunk by 4 million square kilometers — an area bigger than India.

The solution may be to impose limits on pumping aquifer water — particularly in the case of northwestern India, which uses it to fill seasonal rice paddies covering some 38,000 square kilometers.

In 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Rico.

We don't want brain and data drain from Africa to the U.S.» The biggest game - changer on the continent will be the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest network of radio telescopes designed to survey the sky faster than any instrument before it.

Dots represent the average hours of activity within an area spanning 10,000 square kilometers.

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

In that scenario, the study showed the loss 3 million to 5 million square kilometers of permafrost and changes in soil carbon ranging from a 66 - petagram loss to a 70 - petagram gain.

«To meet the 2005 U.S. electricity demand of about 4 million megawatt - hours with around - the - clock wind would have required wind farms covering over 780,000 square kilometers,» Ausubel notes.

The minimum average microplastics pollution was found in the stretch between Basel and Mainz (202,900 particles per square kilometer), a medium average at Bad Honnef, Köln - Porz and Leverkusen (714,053) and the highest average in the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area (2,333,665).

HERA has also been dubbed a precursor instrument to the Square Kilometer Array, which is scheduled to be the largest radio telescope ever built.

The high - resolution maps cover 3,564 square kilometers of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and allow researchers to compare present - day conditions with lower - resolution LIDAR surveys conducted almost 13 years ago.

Auger consist of 1660 particle detectors covering 3000 square kilometers, an area nearly the size of Rhode Island, in the Pampa Amarilla in Argentina.

Researchers found that bears, while foraging, can disperse through their scat about 200,000 devil's club seeds per square kilometer per hour.

For context, 780,000 square kilometers (301,000 square miles) is greater than the area of Texas.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

The researchers looked at annual maximum land surface temperatures averaged across 8 - day periods throughout the year for every 1 - square kilometer (247 acres) pixel on Earth.

The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800 square kilometers along Iran's border with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, «are an ecological catastrophe,» says Nayyereh Pourmollae, who heads the environment department of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.

A peak microplastics concentration was measured at Rees on the Nederhijn, where 3.9 million plastic items per square kilometer (or 21,839 particles per 1000 cubic meters) were found in a single water sample.

Under normal circumstances, groups of two or three whales tend to dive in synchrony across tens of square kilometers to hunt for food.