Sentences with phrase «of soil from»

And like the Mayans, our twenty - first century civilization is mismanaging land and generating record losses of soil from erosion.

Anomalies relative to 1981 - 2010 in precipitation rate (mm / day) from ERA - Interim, JRA - 55 and GPCC, two - metre relative humidity (%) from ERA - Interim and JRA - 55, and the volumetric moisture content of the top 7 cm of soil from ERA - Interim, for December 2016.

In El Pedón, 2012, Camilo Ontiveros presented an empty shipping pallet that had been intended to transport a one - meter cube of soil from Mexico to the US — along with documentation revealing how the task ended up becoming a logistical and legal impossibility.

Follow the instructions that came with a soil analysis kit to measure the acidity (pH), and relative levels of potassium (K), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) of the soil from the potting soil bag.

This would mean a one metre - depth loss of soil from an area corresponding to the size of the city of Berlin, or a one centimetre loss from an area twice the size of Belgium.

But the logs are, so far, helping to keep the line between path and bed a bit clearer, and resulting in a little bit less loss of soil from the beds into the path.

Reganold et al. (1987) found during a long - term comparison (since 1948) of soils from selected conventional and organic farms of the same soil type near Spokane in Washington, USA, that topsoil was 16 cm thicker on organically managed plots.

The scientists collected a diverse sample of soils from cornfields, forests, swamps, even the Boston Public Garden.

Products needed by those vulnerable to rising seas and stormier weather associated with climate change include: (1) desalination capacities for drinking water (2) soil washing and / or new crops to deal with salinization of soils from rising seas flooding them and then receding (3) shelters from wind and storm surges that would not require people to abandon their possessions and animals to the forces of nature they are trying to escape

This practice boosted the carbon content of the soils from a meager 0.5 percent to 9 percent.

Not exact matches

Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

He added that, depending on your distance from the blast, you might get 10 to 15 minutes to move to a better shelter — ideally, a windowless basement, where soil and concrete can help block a lot of radiation.

A growing body of evidence suggests that hemp roots can remove toxins from soil and water better than practically any other plant.

Prior to Black Friday, Patagonia announced that it would donate 100 percent of its global retail and online sales from the shopping event straight to grassroots organizations that work in local communities to «protect our air, water and soil for future generations».

Moreover, the French were in no mood to drink and be merry with the Germans, who were occupying a good chunk of French soil, not to mention that in the five months leading up to Christmas, 300,000 French soldiers died trying to keep even more of their country from falling into German hands.

The soiled carpet is a sort of puke - green color, and the only natural light comes from a few skylights far overhead.

They discovered several artifacts from what appears to be an ancient village, including carved wooden tools and bits of charcoal, in a thin horizontal layer of soil, called paleosol.

Growers are relying on temporary solutions — trying to prevent it from entering new regions, using clean planting materials and limiting the transfer of potentially infected soil between farms.

Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

«The other emissions come from things like landfill gas emissions, agriculture tilling — the release of methane through soil — those types of emissions are really difficult to measure and calculate, so generally for carbon pricing programs you don't cover those emissions.»

In the past 41 years, no American has been killed on US soil by a terrorist from any of the seven countries included in President Donald Trump's controversial executive order on immigration.

The Scottish National Party has declared its intention to remove Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent from its soil if the referendum passes, but the newly independent nation would need some kind of defence force.

Combining data from multiple sources, Nowrasteh found that the actual risk to Americans has been infinitesimal, and some of the terrorists that have been caught on US soil come from surprising places, like Japan.

They said it was too simplistic in its analysis of carbon loss from soil, which can vary over a single field, and vastly overestimated how much residue farmers actually would remove once the market gets underway.

Toronto island airport tunnel delay comes from contaminated soil, noise rules and the remains of a 79 - year - old tunnel

A rendering of Moon Express's proposed MX - 9 return vehicle, which would return from the moon to Earth with samples of rock and soil.

To compete with the cheap Gros Michel from Ecuador, the infested soils of Central America were planted with resistant Cavendish cultivars.

The half - day workshop took place in the Innovation Loft, one of New York's leading creative facilities, and encouraged dynamic group working which responded to the five systemic risks outlined for the next Global Opportunity Report, ranging from cybercrime to soil depletion.

Moscow has since opened up to energy investment from China, removing a number of key restrictions on investing in oil and gas resources on Russian soil.

Privacy advocates say that means trouble for Canada's ability to shield sensitive information such as health or financial data from the prying eyes of foreign agencies by storing it in computer servers on Canadian soil.

The collapse in global iron ore prices isn't chasing Gina Rinehart away from the red soil of Western Australia that made her a billionaire.

In addition, the ongoing war with Yemen, the abrupt resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri from Saudi soil, and the internal power struggle within the Saudi monarchy leading to the detention of a large number of powerful members from the royal family sum up the major ongoing conflicts in the region.

A lot of christians and people from overtly christian populated countries do not understand that they are outsiders when they step away from their home soil.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

I think this move — from the skies to the soil, from the beauty of the sunset to the bulges of the body — is a necessary and salutary one, and I do not want to subvert it in any way.

Of the more than 250 African migrants who drowned less than one mile from European soil last week, many were Christians fleeing religious persecution.

All we know is that Namaan descends into the waters seven times, sees his leprous skin «restored like the flesh of a young boy,» acknowledges the full authority of Israel's God and, to ensure that he can render proper thanks to the Lord when he returns to Damascus, gets permission from Elisha to bring back two mule loads of local soil — a piece of Israel upon which to give thanks to the one who washed him clean.

«I am carrying soil from elsewhere into Syria in order to bear concrete witness to the presence of the one true God who can not be loved and served on this soil, the soil of Baa!

Biblical ideas of atonement root back in this basic soil and stem out from it; and while the development later carried them to branches far distant from the roots, there is no understanding the topmost twig — for example, «as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive» --(I Corinthians 15:22.)

Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Orgins, (New York: Cross Roads) Felix Wilfred, From the Dusty Soil, (University of Madras: Department of Christian Studies, 1995), p. 258f.

An entire industry of books and films has blossomed in the red soil of the American Christian persecution complex, with the first «Gods» Not Dead» installment caricaturing and vilifying atheists and the second set to expose liberal efforts to «expel God from the classroom once and for all.»

Skepticism grows also, in what is perhaps a more tragic form, from the soil of a too naïve religious faith.

the blood of the martyrs fills the soil of our country from north to south and from east to west... many of the bodies are recovered and are broken between churches all over egypt and the rest of the world and by the way the movie was not made by Coptic Christians at least not orthodox anyway.

It has a very broken configuration, and most of the soil is poor, hard to make a living from.

Ignorance is the fertile soil from which the flower of hatred grows.

Once Christianity was established on Hellenistic soil, the term «Lord» tended to take its meaning primarily from its use to ascribe divine honors to emperors or to the gods who presided over the mystery cults, not to mention its use in the Greek Bible to render the unspeakable name of Yahweh.

In one particularly striking passage, he defines liberalism as: «freedom from the restrictions of the soil - bound life, be these privileges, forms, or feelings — freedom of the intellect for every kind of criticism, freedom of money for every kind of business.

but «a different perception of the world, a different recognition and order of meaning, a different touch from the regions of existence, a different faith, a different soil.»

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

«The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.»