Sentences with phrase «new areas of earth»

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There have been actual, physical, places which were considered to be the gateway to «Hades» (Hades was the Greek name of the G - d of the underworld, Pluto was the Roman name)... most of these places were places that emitted gases from deep in the earth that killed off flying birds and / or the animals surrounding the area (Can't remember the name of the lake in Italy offhand, but there's a new find in Turkey with roughly the same idea): http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/gateway-hades-uncovered-turkey-archaeologists-article-1.1307747).
On the one hand, new hope and vigor are in evidence over wide areas of the earth.
The UB researcher will continue the study on marine bryozoans in different Arctic areas and the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest warming places on Earth, within a new project, which Figuerola will lead at the Institute of Oceanology (Poland) with the support of the Centre for Polar Studies.
This new map allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of the second largest mass of ice on Earth, an area containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet.
Glacier seismology is a relatively new area of science, but interest has been growing in the possibilities for detecting the extent of global warming's impact in the vibrations it causes beneath the Earth's surface.
«The state of New Jersey's per capita energy consumption exceeds the photosynthetic productivity of the area even if it were pristine,» noted physicist Klaus Lackner, director of the Earth Institute's Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Columbia event.
Now new research shows that these eruptions on the sun's surface not only send bursts of energetic particles into Earth's atmosphere causing disturbances in the magnetic field, but they may also significantly decrease the number of free electrons over large areas in the polar region of the ionosphere — the ionized part of the upper atmosphere.
Stanford geophysicists have developed a detailed map of the stresses that act in the Earth throughout the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, highlighting areas of the oil - rich region that could be at greater risk for future earthquakes induced by production operations.
The new estimate, reported in the May 12 Science, increases by about 9 percent Earth's total area with more than 10 percent tree cover, adding a zone the size of the Amazon Basin.
Head to your local science center and check out NASA's new short film showcasing the frozen portions of the earth known as the cryosphere, which includes not only glaciers and permafrost but also frozen lakes and rivers and areas with seasonal snowfall.
«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»
With millions of fungi estimated to be living on earth, you probably have several new species inhabiting your area that we have never tested.
They found that the business - as - usual scenario comes with large climate changes the world over and would create entirely new patterns of temperature and precipitation for 12 to 39 percent of Earth's land area.
«This is a new record from a very important area of the world,» said Kim Cobb, an associate professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Next year, SuperKEKB will accelerate the two beams simultaneously, compress them into a smaller area than any other accelerator on Earth, then smash them together to produce copious quantities of B mesons and tau leptons — heavy particles whose decays can reveal new physics.
New research has identified areas of Earth that are high priorities for conservation in the face of climate change.
Pat Druckenmiller, curator of Earth sciences at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, is leading a collaborative project with Denali National Park over the next several years to explore additional areas and make new discoveries.
«Induced seismicity complicates the seismic hazard equation,» said Gail Atkinson, professor of earth sciences at Western University in Ontario Canada, whose research details how a new source of seismicity, such as an injection disposal well, can fundamentally alter the potential seismic hazard in an area.
The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study.
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A new Google Earth tool contains the most recent projections of coral bleaching and ocean acidification for all coral reef areas.
The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study from scientists on NASA's Dawn mission.
A. Google Earth image of July 8, 2010; B. Same area in a low altitude aerial view taken November 2011, showing new fairy circles (central region) forming in a grass matrix.
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A new video from Earth Space Defense profiles the Area 51 scientist as one of the heroes of The War of» 96, and part of the video reveals what happened to Dr. Okun after being attacked by one of the aliens and used as a communication vessel to speak with President Whitmore.
The next expansion / update for Destiny looks set to feature a heap of the stuff cut from earlier content such as a new area on Earth called the «European Dead Zone», a new public space on Mars and a new «planet» Europa.
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New Zealand was the last significant area on earth to be settled by humans, given that the East Polynesians who discovered it only arrived there about 700 years ago, most of them in canoes.
Africa's oldest national park, Virunga in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has launched a new website to encourage visitors to this beautiful but troubled area, so rich in natural resources and one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth.
Mysteries and challenges await in Rise of Iron including: an all - new setting on Earth called «The Plaguelands,» a twisted, dangerous, and action - packed area that has been quarantined for centuries; a brand - new six - player Raid; Felwinter Peak, a new social space where players must ascend a snowy, mountain top to reclaim a Guardian stronghold from the enemy; cooperative three - player Strikes; more quests, weapons, gear; a new competitive multiplayer mode called Supremacy and four new PvP maps; a Light level increase to 385; a new mutated enemy faction of the Fallen, and more.
In the later 3D games, the item's capability increased to allow the reflection of light into new areas, giving birth to some very memorable puzzles in the likes of Ocarina of Time «s Spirit Temple and The Wind Waker «s Earth Temple..
After Link finds Fi, he must protect her in order to deliver two batches of Pumpkin Soup to Levias, who in exchange pushes a mass of earth in order for the Warriors to reach new areas on the map.
The new patrol area is an extension of Earth's Cosmodrome region and is quite expansive.
The ROM is the largest field research institution in the country, and a world leader in research areas from biodiversity, palaeontology, and earth sciences to archaeology, ethnology and visual culture - originating new information towards a global understanding of historical and modern change in culture and environment.
One of the most restless and innovative of the group, Oppenheim transplanted himself from the Bay Area to New York in 1966 to become a pioneer of Earth, Body, Conceptual, installation, and video art.
For example, if the Earth got cold enough, the encroachment of snow and ice toward low latitudes (where they have more sunlight to reflect per unit area), depending on the meridional temperature gradient, could become a runaway feedback — any little forcing that causes some cooling will cause an expansion of snow and ice toward lower latitudes sufficient to cause so much cooling that the process never reaches a new equilibrium — until the snow and ice reach the equator from both sides, at which point there is no more area for snow and ice to expand into.
This week we are excited to announce a new way for people in the Portland area to support the NW Earth Institute: a collaboration with a local company to accept In - kind donations of goods you may have in your basement, garage, attic, or storage unit.
The percentage of Earth's land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled from the 1970s to the early 2000s, according to a new analysis by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Brazil's setting aside of more than 500,000 square miles (1.25 million square kilometers) of rainforest in protected areas over the past decade may effectively buffer the Amazon from the effects of climate change, preventing Earth's largest rainforest from tipping towards arid savanna in the face of ongoing deforestation and rising temperatures, argues a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Careful observers of the new «Black Marble» images of Earth at night released this week by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have noticed bright areas in the western...
The Colorado River basin is not the only area impacted by this scenario — the Rio Grande basin is in a similar situation, said David Gutzler, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of New Mexico.
Saturday, April 20, 2013, Randolph, NH, noon, Durand Lake Recreation Area, off Route 2 Earth Day Event to Stop Tar Sands, Informational Picnic and Pipeline Hike Concerned citizens and environmentalists will come together to draw attention to the possibility of toxic tar sands oil from Canada coming through northern New England via the Portland Montreal Pipe Line (PMLP).
«We are building a new cultural standard in our local area, of caring relationships with each other and our earth.
That's just what you can do with EarthTime, a new online tool that blends satellite photos of Earth with data from university research programs, government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations to create eye - popping animations showing how seas rise in tandem with temperatures to swallow up low - lying areas.
(05/14/2011) A new animation created using Google Earth offers a tour of an area of forest slated for destruction by logging companies.
Buyers can enter their new area code and click on «Where to Recycle» to find information on the nearest reuse and recycling centers, courtesy of Earth 911.
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