Sentences with phrase «of square kilometers»

And it's hundreds of square kilometers (square miles) of a fossil hunter's paradise.

The gray line shows the 1981 - 2010 average ice cover in millions of square kilometers.

A single data point can be be used to represent millions of square kilometers.

In Cambodia, there are tens of thousands of square kilometers of land lost to land mines planted by the Khmer Rouge and people are still willing to step into the killing fields risking a limb for $ 1 a day.

Although Madagascar has set aside tens of thousands of square kilometers for national parks and reserves, illegal logging is still rampant (SN Online: 1/16/15).

In a study published today in the journal Nature, University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Clark L. Erickson < reports that a network of low, zigzag structures of raised earth and ponds covering hundreds of square kilometers in Baures represents a pre-Columbian fishery.

A split - site solution could allow both Australia and South Africa to host parts of the Square Kilometer Array

Extent and uncertainty values are provided below in units of millions of square kilometers unless noted otherwise.

But the SETI Institute's planned $ 35 million array is only a prototype of the Square Kilometer Array that would put those tens of millions of stars within reach of SETI workers.

«In a subsequent study that has been submitted to another journal, we found that these impacts are restricted to a small area around the wind farms,» he says, though some modeling studies of wind turbines covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers suggest such massive wind farms could affect global climate.

HydroPoint's custom - programmed supercomputer models the daily water needs of every square kilometer across the U.S. and Canada, remotely driving clients» irrigation systems.

They found that these sorts of whitening methods could restore some amount of sea ice — about three - quarters of a square kilometer of ice for every whitened square kilometer (or three - quarters of a square mile for every whitened square mile).

Belize has one of the world's most diverse fishing ecosystems with 100 ′ s of Square kilometers of flats, estuaries, rivers and reefs.

Massive Battlegrounds — PlanetSide 2 features incredible continent maps with dozens of square kilometers of seamless gameplay space; every inch of which is hand - crafted, contestable space.

The game worlds in size of hundreds of square kilometers providing the gaming environment for its Arma mil - sim series and DayZ survival MMO were developed with help of geodata and geoinformatics.

The arctic ocean may be millions of square kilometer [1.4 million] but have this effect why isn't 10,000 square kilometer of open ocean not enough to have regional effect.

Under normal circumstances, groups of two or three whales tend to dive in synchrony across tens of square kilometers to hunt for food.

The sim includes thousands of square kilometers of accurately recreated terrain of that time.

Another challenge to food production and land and water conservation is the rising interest in vegetable - based biofuels, which requires the use of hundreds of millions of square kilometers of farmland and cleared rainforests.

For example, relatively small increases in sea temperature (as little as 1 — 2 °C) can cause mass coral bleaching and mortality across hundreds of square kilometers of coral reef (high confidence).

In surveying the quake's aftermath, Plafker, along with others, noticed something strange: There was no surface evidence of a fault large enough to explain the colossal shaking or the widespread uplift and sinking of land over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

In particular, vast expanses of continuous coral cover, extending for tens of square kilometers, exist in many sites in the «Au'au channel off the southwest side of Maui.

The researchers documented vast areas of 100 % coral - cover and extensive algal communities at depths of 50 - 90 meters (165 - 300 feet) extending for tens of square kilometers, and found that the deep - reef habitats are home to many unique and distinct species not found on shallow reefs.

Once those nutrients reach the sunlit surface, they fuel huge phytoplankton blooms that can cover hundreds of square kilometers.

But snow leopard habitat is so large, hundreds of square kilometers in fact, that Volodya needs help to survey the region so I joined the team to do this with him this year.

Belize has one of the world's most diverse fishing ecosystems with 100's of Square kilometers of Flats, Estuaries, Rivers and Reefs.

Nazca Lines Mysterious carvings in the sand spread across hundreds of square kilometers; scenic flights are the best way to see it.

Because the vision of the final version of Star Citizen includes «billions» of square kilometers of viable property, there will be plenty of good locations to go around, or so the developers say.

The very frozen sea scape has changed for thousands, if not millions of square kilometers, is like waking up one morning in a NYC without any cars.

The meters thick ice covering millions of square kilometers has enough thermal inertia to shrug off warm weather (at least it has for hundreds of thousands of years), but not resist a warming climate.

And, oh yes, make no mistake, we will be completely destroying the current ecology of hundreds of square kilometers of my old enemy, the abyssal plain.

Climate models divide the planet into gridcells that cover tens or hundreds of square kilometers.

So carbon neutral means conserving black coal deposits underground and mowing down thousands of square kilometers of forests.

Thousands of square kilometers of the world's second - largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, sit on the verge of destruction, according to a new report released today by Earthsight, the London - based non-profit...