Sentences with phrase «of polders»

In fact, just 20 percent of the country consists of polders that are pumped dry, and which are at risk of flooding if global warming causes rising sea levels.

The large summer exhibition in De Hallen Haarlem reveals the way that the seemingly simple, flat Dutch landscape of polders and rivers has inspired an incredible diversity of interpretations.

Tuytel likes the flat landscape of the polders, whose emptiness is made palpable by the occasional appearance of a farm or a power pylon.

Cruising through the waterways of southern Holland, my school geography lessons of polders and drainage channels, windmills and dairy farming sprung vividly to life.

«I do think that the data show an increase in the tidal range, and the impact of poldering is a reasonable explanation,» says Michael Steckler of Columbia University in New York.

Not exact matches

McCain acquires the assets of the former Polder Food Products plant in Lelystad, Netherlands by McCain Foods (Holland) BV.

In the polders of coastal Bangladesh, the situation exacerbates further with a significant part of the population which doesn't have sufficient food to eat throughout -LSB-...]

McCain acquires the assets of the former Polder Food Products plant in Lelystad, Netherlands by McCain Foods (Holland) BV.

Not all of the destroyed embankments have been repaired or replaced, but hundreds of homesteads and businesses are being moved to higher land both inside and outside the polder.

During the two years in which the dikes were broken, the polder rebounded with tens of centimeters of sediment deposited by daily tides.

They found that the embankments that protect the land from the river and sea had also robbed it of fresh supplies of sediment: during the five decades of its existence, the polder had sunk by a full meter relative to the land outside the embankments because it was not being replenished.

I then measured out 3 - 4 oz of cocoa butter and Shea butter using my Polder kitchen scale.

During the building of the Flevoland polder * in Netherlands, the engineers and planners decided to mark the occasion through the realisation of...

During the building of the Flevoland polder * in Netherlands, the engineers and planners decided to mark the occasion through the realisation of seven Land Art works, situated on several locations.

Returned to France from 1963 - 69, painting and exhibiting: Salon des Independents, City of Chatillon, One - man exhibitions at Galerie des Jeunes, Galerie Mouffetard, Atelier Decima as well as Polder Gallery in the Hague.

The Green Cathedral is a beautiful example: 174 Italian poplar trees are planted to reproduce the floor plan and measurements of the Cathedral at Reims, in a flat polder near Almere, the Netherlands.

Located within a man - made cultural landscape of a Dutch polder (land reclaimed from the sea), the firm was engaged by Delta Development Group in 2007 to create a new model of sustainable development that implements the Cradle to Cradle philosophy holistically and at all scales — from the city to the molecule.

Windmills have been used for centuries to grind grain on Mykonos, drain the polders of Holland, or pump water from wells into fields in North America.

Ongoing missions and instruments of relevance include AVHRR, MODIS (1999 --RRB-, (A) ATSR (1991 --RRB-, Landsat, SPOT, MERIS (2002 --RRB-, GLI, ASTER, MISR (2000 --RRB-, GOES, MSG, and POLDER.

Aerosol impacts remain a source of major uncertainty in climate prediction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report (2007).5 Recent and ongoing missions and instruments providing aerosol information include TOMS (1979 --RRB-, AVHRR (1979 --RRB-, MODIS (1999 --RRB-, MISR (1999 --RRB-, POLDER (2002 --RRB-, (A) ATSR (1991 --RRB-, PARASOL (2006 --RRB-, SCIAMACHY (2003 --RRB-, CALIPSO (2006 --RRB-, GLAS (2003 --RRB-, OMI (2004 --RRB-, and AIRS (2002 --RRB-.

She had chosen the location of the house at Prins Hendriklaan 50 for the expansive view over the polder landscape.

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When the sweet family behind Polder's Old World Market offered to send me these hand carved one - of - a - kind wooden spoons as a gift, I did a little happy jig.