Sentences with phrase «of nearby plants»

Choose from a list of nearby plants, animals, and fungi and collect photographs of as many species as you can!

The scientific literature contains two different mechanisms for a similar pattern — one stems from vegetation self - organizing in response to limited rainfall, and the other results from bustling termite mounds improving the lives of nearby plants.

Not exact matches

IRWINDALE, Calif. — A judge has ordered a plant that produces the popular Sriracha chili sauce to stop emitting annoying odours in a ruling that left some nearby residents worried about a possible loss of jobs at the factory.

Parmentier planted 100 acres of potatoes outside Paris and kept the crop under heavy guard, a strategy that convinced nearby villagers (and ultimately the entire country) that the starchy, misshapen lumps were desirable.

Secretary of State John Kerry visited a nearby plant earlier this year to rally support for the pact.

Not too far from Tom and Betsy, there was an enormous Toyota plant nearby in Georgetown, Kentucky built using Just in Time (JIT) principles, but the process of making bourbon is just about the opposite: you have the product just sitting there for years before you can ship it to anyone.

Gregory, who worked at a Lexington liquor store while a student at the University of Kentucky, recalled that the only people buying Blanton's were Japanese executives passing through on their way home from the nearby Toyota plant.

Eken Park neighborhood resident Mark Cotter, 62, contemplates the impact the impending closure of the nearby Oscar Mayer plant will have on his street.

Halyna's lovely mother lives nearby and often joins us: they are both a wealth of knowledge about medicinal plants.

As a result, many of the nearby growers who may have needed to turn to producing grapes are, instead, planting more organic apple orchards.

At their nearby mash plant, a long line of trucks were waiting to unload.

Today I spoke with Chuck at Agra Greenhouses in the South Valley of Albuquerque and asked him why his chile pepper bedding plants were one - fourth the cost of the Bonnie Plants at nearby Wal -plants were one - fourth the cost of the Bonnie Plants at nearby Wal -Plants at nearby Wal - Mart.

To monitor the Sialkot plant, which opened in January, Reebok hired local human - rights activists to make surprise inspections and enlisted the services of the Ernst and Young branch in nearby Lahore to ensure that the factory's output corresponds to its input in materials.

The retired teacher, who once was an educator of children, said she was afraid that the presence of solar panels might prevent nearby plants from photosynthesizing energy from sunlight.

Or, you might be working in the garden with your little one nearby, sensitive to noticing a moment that calls you to put down your rake so you can kneel on the damp earth and let your toddler lead the way to the discovery of a blossom or a butterfly or a strawberry or the green spikes of the emerging corn he planted himself.

And then I come home and see the beauty of our culturally diverse neighborhood; projects yes, but a dozen countries represented, children tearing about in the nearby parks hollering at each other in a dozen different languages, and I know our multi-cultural-ministry hearts are planted here for a reason.

The hearings are drawing interest in the Capital Region amid a water contamination crisis in the village of Hoosick Falls, where the municipal drinking water was found to be contaminated with PFOA, a chemical used in manufacturing plants nearby.

A dozen protesters from Orange County attended the hearing and later waited for Percoco outside a courthouse bathroom and followed him to a nearby subway, objecting to his alleged acceptance of payoffs to help grease the wheels for a gas - fired power plant in Wawayanda in Orange County.

This initiative has been supported by the legislature, and the project will allow for the collection of wastewater from the Blasdell Wastewater Treatment Plant, as well as nearby pumping stations and sewer overflows.

The contamination is believed to have come from Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics, a company that owns a nearby manufacturing plant, and is the focus of the source of the contamination.

She said Cuomo has been a «huge part» of where the state is now: Indian Point's owner Entergy is now considering selling the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County to Exelon, which owns the nearby Nine Mile Point and Ginna nuclear facilities.

After months of pressure from Percoco, the government says, and after Kelly falsely told other CPV executives that he had obtained an «ethics opinion» from the governor's office approving the arrangement, the company began to pay Percoco's wife $ 7,500 per month to teach fourth graders at elementary schools in New Jersey about a nearby power plant the company was developing.

The impending closure of the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County is already financially impacting the nearby Mexico School District.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. >> The aging Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County will close within about four years under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who long has argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby.

The problems experienced in Hoosick Falls, where many residents have been found to have high levels of PFOA in their blood likely from nearby manufacturing plants, appears to be just the tip of the iceberg.

The owner of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County, which is scheduled to be closed starting in January, is in discussions to sell the plant to Exelon, owner of the nearby Nine Mile Point faciPlant in Oswego County, which is scheduled to be closed starting in January, is in discussions to sell the plant to Exelon, owner of the nearby Nine Mile Point faciplant to Exelon, owner of the nearby Nine Mile Point facility.

Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:06 AM - WBEN Newsroom North Collins, NY (WBEN)- A chemical spill at a manufacturing plant in North Collins has forced the evacuation of the plant, and the lockdown of a nearby school.

The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.

They spoke emotionally about the high levels of the toxic chemical PFOA, which was used in the manufacture of Teflon products by a nearby plant, and was found in their blood.

The problems experienced in Hoosick Falls — where many residents have been found to have high levels of PFOA in their blood, likely from nearby manufacturing plants — appear to be just the tip of the iceberg.

Mr. Doyle said the plant paid half of the property taxes collected by the nearby school district in Mexico, N.Y.

Among other things, Aiello and Gerardi are accused of colluding with Kaloyeros to rig a request for proposals that preceded construction of the Soraa plant and a nearby facility, the Central New York film hub.

Sean Bruno, superintendent of the nearby Mexico school district, said the plant's taxes pay almost a quarter of his budget.

It also gives the location of nearby environmental trouble spots, including brownfield sites, hazardous waste dumps and chemical plants.

By pinpointing your location, the Map of Life app lets you explore plants and critters you might see nearby.

On nearby planets, plants might take on a range of colors, including red, orange, and yellow, in addition to familiar green.

Some of the carbon dioxide probably got trapped and digested by plants in a nearby garden, but the vast majority of the exhaled molecules began to fan out over an ever - widening area.

Meadows of underwater seagrass plants might lower levels of harmful bacteria in nearby ocean waters, researchers reported February 16 during a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early in 2003, company officials predicted that the Carthage plant, which will process guts, feathers, bones, and blood from a nearby ConAgra Foods Butterball Turkey slaughterhouse, would be cranking at full capacity that summer, making 500 barrels of high - quality fuel oil daily.

To the residents of Donora, Pa., a mill town in a crook of the Monongahela River, the daily haze from nearby zinc and steel plants was the price of keeping their families fed.

The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, an industry body, estimates that core cooling systems are not functioning at all three Fukushima Daiichi operating reactors and two of the four reactors at the nearby Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant are relying on backup cooling systems.

A new study shows that a surprising amount of the plant's leaked radioactive waste has made its way into groundwater underneath nearby beaches.

In 2008, Tscharntke selected nine major strawberry varieties and planted them in an experimental field with plenty of wild bees and domesticated honey bees living nearby.

They are generally either independent or part of cooperatives, in which case they get planting materials and assistance from a nearby corporation.

This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.

This time, a dozen masked men overpowered two guards at the Üplingen Plant Science Garden, hopped a waist - high wire fence and trashed a plot of genetically modified potatoes, along with part of a nearby stand of transgenic wheat.

Leaves from swamp plants also appear in the mud, confirming that the forested spot was on the upslope edge of a nearby wetland.

KIEV, Ukraine — In 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place when reactor No. 4 in the power plant at nearby Chernobyl exploded, spewing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

The thousands of small dams — which powered mills, forges and other industry — changed the water table, altering the plants growing nearby and eventually changing the landscape from wetlands to deeply incised, quickly flowing streams.

Within minutes, the potatoes — part of a research project run by the nearby University of Rostock to see if rabbit vaccines and plastic polymers could be grown in plants — had been ripped out of the ground or trampled.