Sentences with phrase «of square miles»

Now, if it takes thousands of square miles of solar cells to power a mid-sized city, what happens to the light and heat that used to reach the ground?

The high cumulative rainfall on top of saturated land, means the storm poses a severe threat to the safety and property across thousands of square miles in the region.

The mining method is considered to be very damaging to the environment, as it involves leveling hundreds of square miles of land, trees and wildlife.

But large eruptions, creating vast lava flows in some cases thousands of square miles in area, were thought to be rare.

Millions of square miles of farmland devoted to growing crops to burn!

Because it's automated, we can watch millions of square miles simultaneously and in real time.

Thirty - four years ago, a similar snow pack melted, flooding hundreds of square miles of the valley.

In an ecosystem covering thousands of square miles, those losses seemed insignificant.

The lines spread over hundreds of square miles and were created by removing the rust - colored stones that cover the desert, revealing the light - colored soil beneath.

The boat anchors at the smallest of Anacapa's three tiny islets, a mere third of a square mile in size.

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).

The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer.

The population density (ranked 4th in the nation) and the lack of square miles (ranked 48th) make renting in the Nutmeg State more popular than elsewhere.

The entire United States is your driving playground, covering thousands of square miles from city to suburb, county to county, state to state, coast to summit.

New Brunswick is relatively small in terms of square miles at 5.8 miles.

Now, everyone mocks restaurant menus that tell you every inch of every square mile down to the name of the chicken.

Most of the homes and businesses in south - central L.A. and Koreatown (which cover a number of square miles) were untouched by the riot.

PANTHER, which was funded by Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research & Development program, is gleaning deeper insights from complex data sets in minutes instead of months, and covering hundreds of square miles instead of dozens.

For each of Rosetta's candidate sites, a larger area — four - tenths of a square mile (one square kilometer)-- was assessed.

Dion is located just one minutes walk from St Pauls tube Station, just behind Paternoster Square in the heart of the square mile.

The seventh version of the annual «Sculpture in the City» places 18 artists» work in the stimulating context of the square mile.

Hundreds of square miles once vital, now as barren as could be.

That's the amount of extractable, burnable carbon that likely sits beneath what were once the green forests of Alberta and are now little more than a sprawling waste of smoking pits covering tens of square miles.

«Think of square miles of marginal land covered with them.»

In the past century, the landscape has been scarred and pitted by strip mines hundreds of feet deep that sprawl over dozens of square miles.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of square miles (26

Blanket thousands of square miles with habitat - suffocating solar panels?

But polar ice caps are surrounded by millions of square miles of near - freezing water.

«The areas we examined in our study were relatively small (about a third of a square mile), so a guard could conceivably be keeping criminals away from the neighborhood directly surrounding the outlets,» she said.

The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer.

The population density (ranked 4th in the nation) and the lack of square miles (ranked 48th) make renting in the Nutmeg State more popular than elsewhere.

The problem with algae is still the fact that it takes a certain amount of energy to split the CO2 molecule, and since there's only so much energy in sunlight, you'd need to cover many thousands of square miles with algae ponds to have a significant effect.

Though scattered across thousands of square miles of ocean, dive sites in the Maldives fall into three general categories, based on structure: Individual islands within an atoll are generally surrounded by a reef that creates a sheltered lagoon.

De Pater's long - time colleague and coauthor Ashley Davies, a volcanologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., said that the recent eruptions resemble past events that spewed tens of cubic miles of lava over hundreds of square miles in a short period of time.

High - altitude winds can make it sprinkle over hundreds of square miles, though it's most intense near the blast site.

When you first become a Christian, and you fly over the rain forest of your life, it is thousands of square miles of impassible and inhabitable jungle, full of twisted vines, rotting leaves, and deadly predators.

The kit fox, full grown at five or six pounds and a master controller of rodents, has vanished from thousands of square miles of the prairie.

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, has 81 square miles, and homeless shelters take up, what,.0000001 of those square miles?

In 1908 hundreds of square miles of Siberian forest were flattened and burned by a mysterious fireball.

Someday this material could be stretched over many thousands of square miles of countryside.

It's more accurate to think of it as an exotic mussel bed sprawling across thousands of square miles.

Ivory - bills were known to travel far and wide to find recently dead trees suitable for roosting, and any now living could cover hundreds of square miles.