Sentences with phrase «of habitable land»

It occupies a quarter of habitable land and uses 70 per cent of freshwater — our most precious resource — often very inefficiently.

While undesirable, this is hardly on par with a likely near - halving of habitable land, indicating that current assessments are underestimating the seriousness of climate change.

A single, unforgettable image comes to mind when we ponder human origins: a crouching ape slowly standing and morphing into a tall, erect human male poised to conquer every bit of habitable land on this planet.

Not exact matches

The six - wheeled rover quickly delivered, finding that an area near its landing site called Yellowknife Bay was indeed habitable billions of years ago.

The advancing ice could also bury some agricultural lands and make the planet an overall colder place, «likely reducing the total amount of habitable area on Earth,» Haqq - Misra wrote in a paper laying out the thought experiment.

It was the last great movement of humans to unoccupied but habitable lands.

This type of surface appears ideal for making a planet habitable; there seems to have been enough water to support abundant life, with sufficient land to reduce the planet's sensitivity to changes from incoming sunlight.

The success of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity in finding tell - tale signs of past water at its Meridiani Planum landing site has left some researchers believing the region could have once been a habitable, albeit still hostile, environment.

Your rover will land with more precision and cover more rugged ground than any other, and it will have the best chance so far of capturing the history of water flow and the possibility of ancient habitable environments on Mars.

Interim Captain Billy Crudup orders that they land on the unfamiliar but seemingly habitable planet, and those 20 minutes of atmospheric research are reason enough for them to not only land but to go out exploring sans helmets.

You are the second colonization team sent by the U.N.E. (United Nations of Earth) to study potential habitable planets when your spacecraft malfunctions braking from light speed, forcing an emergency landing on the planet's surface.

Pilot the last vessel of a fallen civilization into the vast unknown, in search of a new habitable world.Carefully land on the planets you will encounter to gather terraforming resources and space - faring human survivors for the final destination... skillful piloting and the balanced management of fuel, oxygen &...

He pointed out a study that the Sundarbans would lose another 15 percent of its total habitable land, displacing more than 30,000 people by 2020.

One - third of the world's habitable land is arid and semi-arid where agave can be cultivated.

Competition of Newly Habitable Lands - The opposite scenario of crowding may also occur as the open space around the Arctic regions becomes available due to the increased air temperatures.

Among them, he cited a lack of access to lands and loans, municipalities» definitions of minimum habitable structure sizes, and social pressures: «People can get very defensive and social pressures can make the shift to living a simple life in a Tiny House very difficult with some people.