Sentences with phrase «more populated regions»

The resident wildlife species are exposed to environmental challenges that you would associate with more populated regions.

He thought for a moment and said something that stuck with me more powerfully than anything else during the trip: «As remote as Midway is, it still battles many of the same environmental problems we expect to find only in more populated regions.

Pumping that fresh water to more populated regions could be done during peak hours, thus not using any of the stored energy.

«In the winter, there's a buildup of transported pollution from more populated regions in Asia, which is really known as Arctic haze.»

Prof Peres added: «Given the enormous supply of cheap unoccupied land, Brazilian Amazonia continues to attract a large contingent of economic migrants from more populated regions.

Not exact matches

For this reason, I coach entrepreneurs to pitch wealthy people within a 350 mile radius in densely populated regions; 400 mile radius in more rural regions.

Moving years later to new jobs and a new hometown five hundred miles away, in a region more densely populated with Catholics, Elizabeth and I «shopped around» until we finally settled on a new parish.

Still, Mr. Cuomo was awash in criticism from elected officials and residents in the Southern Tier, a far more sparsely populated region near the Pennsylvania border where unemployment runs high, after the state board rejected proposals for a casino license in that area.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

Cholera patterns emerged, showing a higher incidence in more densely populated areas in the city's center compared to its outer regions in El Niño conditions.

«Beavers are typically associated with forests, but this turns out to be a more plastic species able to populate semiarid regions,» Pietrek told Scientific American.

Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is estimated to send more than 200 people to the emergency room with pneumonia each year, according to a study by University of Utah Health and Intermountain Healthcare.

In a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.

I spend part of each year at a friend's house in rural France, in a region that is populated by more cows than people.

And there's no reason that more of the heavy roots of the Appalachians could not drop off at any time, spurring a recurrence of volcanism on the East Coast and an outbreak of lava in the most densely populated regions of the U.S..

She guesses that the high density of whales off the east coast of Australia affords more opportunity for new songs to arise than in a sparsely populated region such as French Polynesia.

The smallpox virus spread more easily in densely populated Tenochtitláan than it did in sparsely inhabited regions, such as the Great Plains of the United States.

Supermassive black holes are billions of times more massive than the Sun and have been found in very large galaxies in regions populated with many other galaxies.

The high latitudes and polar regions were more or less ice - free, and were populated by a diverse assemblage of plants and animals.

The downside to Happn's location - dependant approach is that it's unlikely to work well in more sparsely populated regions.

Rural areas often struggle to achieve the same educational standards as more densely populated regions.

Cats of all ages, living in any region, can contract heartworm, but the disease is more prevalent in felines who live in areas densely populated by mosquitoes.

For travelers who've been to Southeast Asia, they know that Laos itself is no longer the hidden gem of the region it once was, with more and more travelers having been turned on to the slow rhythms and friendly people that populate this small, landlocked country.

However, away from the more urban parts of the city there is an abundance of countryside that populates the outer regions of Cambridge.

On the other hand, fracking in the United States, especially in the Marcellus Shale region, tends to occur in more densely populated areas where it can come into conflict with local water uses like drinking and irrigation.

In both cases, therefore, more observations have always been made in some regions, such as densely populated areas or well - travelled shipping lanes, than in others.

The majority of DG solar projects are located in China's more populated central and eastern regions and therefore have fewer problems with curtailment or transmission losses, with power being consumed at or near to the point of generation.

A similar problem persists today and to compensate for the sparsity of weather stations in many inland regions, often with totally empty grid cells between them, the ACORN database applies a weighted average which proportionally multiplies their occurrence, at the same time dividing the occurrence of temperatures among more densely located stations in populated regions mostly on the coastal fringe.

Worse, the West is more densely populated in general and definitely more of a stress on the capabilities of the region they live in to support them (water aquifers being drained and not replenished is more common in the modernised west so indicating that they are exceeding the resources available).

Such a large wind resource in such a sparsely developed and populated region could give China an advantage in exploiting this potential capacity compared to other top wind nations — Germany, the US, Spain and India round out the top five — who, apart from the US, have much higher population densities and more NIMBY-esque battles around the siting of large wind projects.

That means rates are raised in less densely populated areas of the state, so they can be kept lower in more dense regions.