Sentences with phrase «nature of the continents»

The inhospitable nature of the continent means that it has never had permanent inhabitants to take regular weather observations unlike most other places on the planet.

Biography of a continent: The Day Before America: Changing the Nature of a Continent by William H. MacLeish, Houghton Mifflin, pp 277, $ 21.95

She illuminates the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, and offers «hard - headed hope» and «realistic options» for change and improvement.

Not exact matches

Tongues might like the European nature of the word, though I'd argue the continent is so socialist, I'm not sure the French have a word for entrepreneur.

Evolution, the age of the earth, the nature of the universe itself, etc., has been investigated and tested and findings challenged, refined, and verified in thousands of different ways by thousands of people over centuries and across continents.

Pundits can banter about one southern cook and the nature of racism in this continent, about the nature of marriage and truth and grace and orientation and the Church, and our screens can explode with opinions and rebuttals and politics.

But on the continent of Asia, where the Axial Period occurred, the nature religions were eliminated, marginalised, or submerged within what we now call the great world religions.

The American experience in the leveling of a continent and the partial reshaping of the face of nature constitutes one large national illustration of this kind of force.

His observations on the continents of the southern hemisphere changed his views of the source of the order in nature.

God is the creator of nature, and all powerful, so if he wanted to punish man why send such puny storms when he can create ones that could wipe entire continents bare of all living things?

A variety of 19th - and 20th - century artists and writers — Wilson, Audubon, Bodmer, Catlin, Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, Seton, Krutch — wandered about the continent and came back to tell us what was instructive, beautiful and rare in nature.

Good player but am a little concerned about the amount of players the boss is signing from that continent due to the disruptive nature of their championship..

When the world looks at Africa, the focus is normally on the rich resources of the continent, the gold, oil, timber, rubber, manganese, cocoa, coffee, and all the other bountiful blessings of nature.

The President added that discussion on migrations and refugees can not be complete without also including discussion about the nature of African economies, as it is only such a comprehensive discussion, which leads to appropriate policies, that will enable satisfactory solutions to be found to the crises of refugees and migration, especially from the African continent.

The Nature team concludes it came in one of two early waves of migration into the continent, whereas the Science team concludes it came much later, and was unrelated to the initial peopling.

That's the main finding of a study appearing May 23 in Nature Communications that analyzed the relationship between top predators on three different continents and the next - in - line predators they eat and compete with.

«Listening to a Continent Sing recounts their journey and transports the reader into the mind of a scientist renewing his awe of nature.»

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

After compiling 10 floe - scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.

Dr Konrad added: «These differences emphasise the complex nature of ice sheet instability across the continent, and being able to detect them helps us to pinpoint areas that deserve further investigation.»

McFadden has over 90 publications (many invited) in journals such as Science, Nature, the Journal of Geophysical Research, and Geophysical Journal International, and he co-authored The Magnetic Field of the Earth and Paleomagnetism: Continents and Oceans.

That is the conclusion of an effort, detailed in the February 9 issue of Nature, to model the slow movements of the continents over the next tens of millions of years.

Ice - free areas of Antarctica — home to more than 99 per cent of the continent's terrestrial plants and animals — could expand by more than 17,000 km2 by the end of this century, a study published today in Nature reveals.

The paper, «Learning to Coexist with Wildfire,» to be published in the Nov. 6 issue of the journal Nature, examines research findings from three continents and from both the natural and social sciences.

A study published on Monday in Nature Geoscience is among the first to create a detailed snapshot of how warming ocean waters are eating away at grounding lines around the continent.

Minister of Research Tora Aasland noted the laureates — from three different continents — reflected the international nature of research.

While the Nature Climate Change paper reports on European results, the overall effort is a part of a worldwide monitoring programme being coordinated out of the University of Vienna, Austria that extends over more than 90 mountain sites on 5 continents.

The forces bedeviling these families vary in nature — an apocalyptic disaster in «Time of the Wolf,» inexplicable suicidal urges in «The Seventh Continent,» memories of past transgressions in «Caché» — but see enough of them and you will soon realize that every tormentor is a front for Haneke himself.

Follow three groups of high school students from three continents on a quest to understand the nature of lasting happiness.

This lesson bundle focuses on: Vocabulary: greetings, family, friends, home and school, travel and nature, and history and communities Grammar: number and gender, articles, pronouns, punctuation, «Ser vs. Estar,» regular verbs in present and preterite, possession, and time Culture: independence of countries on the American continent; culture of the Spanish - speaking world, globally and in the US; and historical figures * We have provided the videos embedded within the lesson PDF and also separately in -LRB-.

Crossing five continents, the Lappés explore some of the most puzzling questions of our time: Why, as societies, do we create the very inequalities and devastation of nature that, as individuals, we abhor?

In her comprehensive and detailed examination of the complex and dynamic nature of the African continent, Professor Maathai offers both «hard - headed hope» and «realistic options» for change and improvement, and analyses the most egregious «bottlenecks to development in Africa» occurring at the international, national, and individual levels — cultural upheaval, environmental degradation, and enduring poverty, among others.

The footprints she has left on our continent will bear everlasting witness to posterity that a great lady, A true Pan-African and a lover of nature, walked this earth.

Together with our affiliates, we serve investors across six continents, and understand the complexity and changing nature of their investment needs.

There are some things that you can do to minimize the frustrating nature of incontinence in dogs that are not made completely continent through treatments.

Although the precise duration that an animal spent in a particular disease stage could not be determined based on the voluntarily nature of the examinations and the widespread distribution of the study population across several continents, repeated examinations were used to provide a rough estimate of disease progression.

I've been to 70 countries, seen seven world wonders, seven wonders of nature, and I'm about to hit my seventh continent.

Indeed, this continent is filled with gems that would cater anyone with a severe case of wanderlust but also people who are interested in various activities, just check out these beautiful national parks in Europe where you'll see some of nature's works at its finest.

It is the second largest canyon in Africa, and is known as one of the great wonders of nature on the continent.

He is primarily concerned with the social, economic and ecological exploitation of man and nature in the Niger Delta and other parts of the continent.

This, when considering that the long running Western issue of grouping the large continent together as a whole, has the potential to disorient the individual natures of the works.

Made with time - lapse photography, the film deconstructs the formation of the continents by allowing nature's wilful course to unfold.

They journey out of the studio, into the neighbourhood, the city, the territory or entire continent beyond, in a manner that evokes by turns Surrealist, Borgesian or Situationist metropolitan perambulation, or exploration in wilderness spaces nature and culture.

This body of work, which spans ten years and three continents, strives to highlight the interaction between nature and humanity.

The artist, born in Wyoming in 1912, was inspired by the vast open spaces of the West, the untamed forces and rhythms of nature, and what he perceived as the tonic rawness of the American continent compared to the refinements of European culture.»

The permanent installation, «Ring: One with Nature» — to have its premiere Aug. 2, before the opening ceremony — is part of an effort by the artist's nonprofit Faou Foundation to place site - specific works on six continents.

The talking heads narrating Burn's documentary — the best part of which were the splendid views of our continent's natural wonders — struggled to express why Nature was important and why it is so affecting.

I understand the issue — that when considered as a whole, the data on the Nature cover may better capture the trends over time than any other method of determining the average trend over the continent — but that said, it is not accurate on the fine spatial scale that it is presented.

> very few mechanisms in nature can drill for oil or mine coal Or burn off vegetation on the scale of continents.

Thousands of people across six continents are joining massive clean - ups of beaches and parks and over 30 iconic landmarks are lighting up in green in a powerful demonstration of humanity's love for nature on World Environment Day