Sentences with phrase «most of the continent»

+ / - 62 %: rural population directly dependent on wild nature and its services for survival (the most of any continent)

«The tools that we use to tell us something about climate change can not give us an answer about how to prepare for climate change for most of the continent,» Jenkins said.

Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves, not icebergs calving into the sea, are responsible for most of the continent's ice loss, a study by UC Irvine and others has found.

Most of the continent's known volcanic eruptions have occurred along this subduction zone as well.

With an exceptional range of commercial - free content like music, sports, talk radio and news - including lots of Canadian content - your favourite listening can travel with you throughout most of the continent.

In most of the continent, it's still a little too cold to drop the top, and during the 2015 North American International Auto Show, Detroit was no exception.

Today he can hit most of the continent of Asia and even parts of the American homeland.

Despite financial growth and increased stability in most of the continent over the past decade, it remains divided by social and ethnic differences and marked by political and economic shifts.

The most recent NASA data I could find on the Antarctic 1981 - 2007 in an article on the Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration looks much worse: it shows most of the continent as warming.

Unusually high Antarctic sea ice is surrounding most of the continent across thousands of miles of sea ice perimeter.

(Phys.org)-- Over the next century, most of the continents are on track to become considerably warmer, with more hot extremes and fewer cold extremes.

Yet no corresponding positive trend is observed in GRACE, in fact we see mass loss over most of the continent.

Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.

In Australia, drought is impacting most of the continent with the exception of the central East Coast.

The year got off to an exceptionally hot start with a heatwave that spanned most of the continent during the first three weeks of January.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory — June 13, 2013 PASADENA, Calif. — Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.

Differences were minimal after 1893 (by which time Stevenson screens were in widespread use for observations except in New South Wales and Victoria, a small area in the context of a global dataset), and before 1878 (when there were limited Australian observations of any kind and most of the continent was considered to be missing data in the HadCRUT4 dataset).

The reason is that Chestnut - sided Warblers depend on regenerating second - growth for breeding, and most of the continent's forests were still intact during his travels across North America.

However, at this stage in Earth's history, most of the continents are concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere.

As I sit here melting in the humidity (which isn't even all that humid compared to most of the continent), I can't wait for fall!

Not exact matches

At the height ofEurope's migration crisis in 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants — most from the Middle East and Africa — arrived at the continent by land and sea.

«I come from a continent where most of the people don't have access to money.

According to the Ivanplats prospectus, released back in September, most of the funds raised will be put toward several projects throughout the continent, including its US$ 2 - billion Kamoa copper project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has 9.2 million tonnes of measured and indicated resources and 12.5 million tonnes inferred.

He has worked in beauty, grooming, and fabric care on multiple continents, but spent most of his time in the baby - care business.

That could spell trouble for European carmakers given that several of the continent's most popular brands have a major manufacturing footprint in the U.S.

But a bit of swagger, self - confidence and a clear vision of its past achievements — and future aims — could pull it through, according to the continent's most high - profile business, economic and political leaders.

Ontario is North America's biggest market for ICF homes, and Canada is home to many of the continent's most important manufacturers of ICF products.

After all is said and done hundreds of millions of people will be forced to retreat inland leaving behind the continent's largest and most prosperous cities to be buried by the ocean

Known as «the Asian Warren Buffett,» Li is the richest man on the continent, and one of the most powerful.

Venezuela, the most hardline socialist country in the American continent, is in a steep crisis in recent years ever since oil prices fell below the $ 100 area in 2014 down to a third of the price in early 2016.

Cannabis sales in North America are growing faster than any fairy tale beanstalk, and with full legalization poised for July of this year in Canada, the continent is by far the most fertile ground in the world for commercial cannabis abundance.

Good data on the exact size of the middle class are hard to come by, but it remains small across most parts of the continent.

WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.

To the surprise of most investors around the globe, yesterday the U.K. voted 52 % to 48 % in favor of leaving the European Union (EU), after more than four decades, in a stunning rejection of the continent's post-war political and economic order.

I've delivered talks on all seven continents and in 41 countries to audiences of the most respected firms, organizations and associations.

That he's spoken on all seven continents and in over 40 countries to audiences of the most respected firms, organizations and associations underscores the value he brings to audiences.

The goal of the Summit is to advance cooperation by the leaders of the federated states of the world's most dynamic continent, which generates a combined GDP of nearly $ 21 trillion per annum with a population of 486 million.

Credit robots will be able to issue loans with the most optimal terms, regardless of countries and continents.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

And one of the most fascinating things about coming up with the idea is that you may now sit having accomplished it — five full continents, 100,000 miles, and 10,000 years in history.

Not only are most of us on this continent far removed from the practices of shepherding; we also believe that the notion has taken on a negative connotation.

(3) When an entire continent — healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before — deliberately chooses sterility, the most basic cause for that must lie in the realm of the human spirit, in a certain souring about the very mystery of being.

What is most striking is that this occurred independently in five parts of the Eurasian continent at more or less the same time.

A prayerful african child is wahooo happy and sees a great future though born in the youngest of continents and the most trying times of the african continent still strugling with its given and herited (mostly false) foundationbut God has given us victory

«The church is one of the most trusted delivery systems in the continent because we've educated, we've saved their lives in hospitals, we've saved their lives in clinics, we've sheltered the children in orphanages,» said Bickerton.

Lebouvier's case is among a growing wave of de-baptisms in Europe, one of the most visible manifestations of the continent's secular drift.

The scene now shifts to South America, the continent where Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born and has spent most of his life.

This one verse may be the most quoted text in African Christianity, the «life verse» of an entire continent.

At the centre of the narrative, of course, is John himself, the most famous English actor in that mid-nineteenth century European drama of the breakdown of church establishments all over the continent, from the Dutch Afscheiding to the Scottish Disruption.