Sentences with phrase «much of the earth»

To be sure, Adidas still dominates the sport that dominates much of the earth.

niknak, you realize that fossils are found on mountaintops and that much of the earth was underwater at some point in history?

Much of our earth is covered by salt water, desert and ice.

The psychological and social problems created by the «baby A-bombs» dropped on Japan are minor compared to the aftermath of a hydrogen Armageddon with an estimated 93 million Americans and at least that many Russians destroyed and much of the earth poisoned by radioactivity.

Subsequent studies by a group of twenty biologists, headed by Paul Ehrlich, showed that the predictions meant nothing less than the extinction of much of the Earth's biosphere.

But how much of the earth is left at this point?»

Much of the earth removed during the construction will be used to create the earthworks, reducing the amount of earth that would have to be otherwise transported.

The sun has a much lower deuterium concentration than our oceans, suggesting that much of Earth's water comes directly from the initial pre-solar cloud.

Aside from getting away from weather intrusions, the flying telescope will soar above much of Earth's water vapor, which absorbs a lot of infrared light.

Much of Earth's microbial biosphere still survives on these anaerobic pathways.

That said, much of Earth is uninhabited — making it likely that Tiangong - 1 will fall in the ocean, or, like Skylab, into a remote area.

Coal, as any mining museum in Cape Breton will tell you (and there are several now), is the dark fruit of ancient garden beds, the carbonized remains of swampy jungles that covered much of the Earth 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period.

That's because, on top of bringing water, they are also believed to have delivered much of Earth's so - called volatile elements, namely, carbon, nitrogen, and noble gases, says Conel Alexander, a cosmochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. To explain the abundance of these elements, there would have had to have been enough impacts to also deliver Earth's water, he says.

Much of Earth, particularly its core and mantle, was first forged in protoplanets (much like Vesta) that eventually slammed into — and became part of — our nascent world.

Ancient soils like these provide evidence for low atmospheric oxygen levels through much of Earth's history.

Since the late Pleistocene, large - bodied mammals have been extirpated from much of Earth.

«Look at how much of Earth is covered with water,» Victoria Samson, the Washington Office Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space, told SPACE.com this week.

«Much of the earth's water and organics perhaps came from comets,» explains team member Michael Zolensky of the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Nitrogen, essential to life for such basic processes as building DNA and proteins, makes up much of Earth's atmosphere.

Three years ago, the comet Hartley - 2 was found to have a D - to - H ratio near that of Earth's oceans — sparking interest in the notion that comet impacts delivered much of Earth's water.

Around 720 - 640 million years ago, much of the Earth's surface was covered in ice during a glaciation that lasted millions of years.

New study finds a barrage of small impacts likely erased much of the Earth's primordial atmosphere.

So how much of Earth's surface is covered by rain gauges?

Because much of Earth's land mass is covered by plants, there is a large source of these biogenic aerosol particles that need to be accounted for in climate change prediction.

When projecting how sea levels could rise over the coming centuries, one of the most difficult factors for scientists to gauge is how much of the Earth's vast ice sheets will melt, and how quickly.

Although comets contain considerable water, b comets did not provide much of Earth's water, because comet water contains too much heavy hydrogen, relatively rare in Earth's oceans.

These are the high streaky clouds that cover much of the earth and have significant impact on climate.

«The Beijing Declaration articulates a very important and promising view on the potential impact of scientific cooperation in a region that covers much of the earth,» said Hassan.

Drake and Righter give other reasons meteorites could not have provided much of Earth's water.

A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate - tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for climatic shifts from hot to cold over tens and hundreds of millions of years throughout much of Earth's history.

Records of methane levels, for example, indicate how much of the Earth wetlands covered because the abundance of life in wetlands gives rise to anaerobic bacteria that release methane as they decompose organic material.

In a 45 minutes long run around Stockholm we managed to collect 17,5 kg = 38,6 pounds of trash laying around on the ground and in the water Humans consume so much of the earth's resources that Earth Overshoot Day happened 2nd of August this year ‼️ That means that we are living on borrowed resources from the upcoming year and from the generations to come after us We can not afford to just consume like obsessed and then carelessly throw away plastic, glass, metal and paper wherever we see fit.

This is because much of the Earth's ocean waters have become polluted.

One of the biggest selling points of the console resistance titles is the experience that you are part of a giant war encompassing much of the earth, but in this game you feel like your the only soldier in a tiny battle in NY.

Water covers much of the earth's surface and is immensely powerful, capable of taking lives and changing the shape of the land.

The plotline involves a supposition that the global warming apocalypse that many scientists have been predicted is finally here, and in an accelerated example of such disastrous events, much of the Earth's northern hemisphere suffers from severe flooding, tidal waves and an ice storm that threatens to wipe out practically all life as we know it in those affected regions.

But should our generation's «decision» to wipe out much of Earth's biodiversity be carried out, the consequences could plague our descendants for a hundred thousand generations or more.

However all of this comes with a price as the new fuel begins to wreak havoc with the Earth's weather systems, irrecoverably changing much of the Earth's surface into a death - ridden wasteland known as «The Dust.»

A brutal alien invasion has destroyed much of Earth \'s human population.

Set in a future where alien invaders have destroyed much of the Earth, Earth's Dawn sees you playing as an elite soldier who uses bionic alien implants to reclaim the planet.

A vivid colorist who favors a sun - kissed palette evocative of Matisse — who shared his affinity with the Mediterranean — Garabedian conjures a world that's brazenly erotic and very much of the earth.

it will rapidly converge to sustainability with Geothermal drilling technologies, ultra clean coastal waters, zero population growth and women learning to have equal rights without consuming twice as much of the Earth's resources as men.

We have some estimates of how much of the earth's surfaces might be needed by 2030 to power the world from renewable sources, so projects that do double - duty — like this incredible solar power array - slash - desert sculpture aptly called Light Sanctuary — remind us that the big and functional can ultimately be aesthetically - pleasing too.

What MIGHT (possibility, not nec high probability) it look like in 1000 years if much of earth's cryosphere melts & waters expand if we reach 6C warming is the question.

The second study meanwhile looked at how aerosol emissions impact the Earth's temperature through a phenomenon the researchers call «transient climate sensitivity,» or how much of the Earth's temperature will change when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches twice its level during the pre-industrial times.

That and its large heat capacity explains why the ocean holds much of the earth's transient climate sensitivity.

No one knows for sure how much Earth would have to warm before it reaches the tipping point — though about a thousand years ago, there was a time known as the Medieval Warm Period when much of Earth appears to have been unusually warm.

Records of methane levels, for example, indicate how much of the Earth wetlands covered because the abundance of life in wetlands gives rise to anaerobic bacteria that release methane as they decompose organic material.

The research, published in Nature, maps how much of the Earth's vegetation is recovering after a drought and how recovery times have changed since 1901.

Much of earth is in serious heat and drought.