Sentences with phrase «of widespread fire»

Using pollen, phytolith, and charcoal records to identify the distribution and composition of tropical vegetation and fire patterns over the past 11,000 years, Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, found evidence of widespread fire use for land - clearing by pre-Colombian populations in Latin America.

«The confluence of climate and people in these areas increases the risk of widespread fire activity when the fire season severity is elevated,» said Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who works with Randerson and colleagues on the forecast.

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Widespread fires forced many Main Street business owners to evacuate or close their stores, just as shops geared up for the last three weeks of holiday sales.

This month's rapid - fire announcements of the widespread new use of fuel cells globally is great news for South Africa's struggling platinum mining... →

This guy knew he was being an insufferable tool, that's why he thinks he was fired because of it even though he lost his job amid widespread layoffs.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

In support of it he appeals to the Transfiguration, which he seems to know from the Gospel of Matthew, and to the widespread ancient belief that the universe is to be destroyed by fire.

«According to the report by National Security, the fire was deliberately set to destroy evidence of theft and massive fraud and widespread irregularities on the procurement and distribution of medical supplies involving senior management and junior staff.

Then the «journalist» proceeded to claim that false data was widespread and that there was a coverup, but so far no evidence has been presented other than the original employee (who was fired in 2011) own confession of his wrongdoing.

The system has come under fire for allowing widespread conflicts of interest, as many council members represent organizations which receive REDC funding.

A study, carried out by Professor Andrew C. Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London and Professor Sue Rimmer from Southern Illinois University, reveals widespread fire occurred on Earth more than 80 million years after plants first invaded the land.

The most recent glacial period, for example, occurred from roughly 90,000 years ago until 15,000 years ago, and Homo sapiens who had mastered the widespread use of fire were around for the entire duration.

Analyzing fire scars in the growth rings of old wood, the researchers determined that the last widespread blaze on the upper elevations of the mountain had taken place in 1685.

By applying the techniques she has used in Kenya, such as infrared spectroscopy and micromorphology, which weren't widespread until this century, she hopes to spot evidence of fire that others might have missed.

Now the company is under fire because it continued selling the flawed implant overseas for months after the FDA decision, ignoring widespread complaints of premature failure and faulty construction.

The U.S. government's practice of widespread surveillance is a global issue that is «setting fire to the future of the Internet,» Snowden said.

Whereas forest fires contribute to the problem — the effect noticeably worsens in years with widespread boreal wildfires — roughly 80 percent of polar soot can be traced to human burning, adding as much as 0.054 watt of energy per square meter of Arctic land, according to the research published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Emissions from vehicles and construction dust also combine with raised levels of black carbon generated from winter sources — fires for warmth, brick kilns that are lit in the autumn, and widespread field burning in neighbouring states.

Gigatons of carbon The 2005 fires added 1.6 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere, according to a study by Simon Lewis of the University of Leeds, who put emissions from the more widespread 2010 fires at 2.2 gigatons.

But in the most recent case in 2010, NRC acted as both judge and executioner, retracting the grant of a researcher at the Karolinska Institute after finding widespread misconduct in her lab; on the basis of their findings, her new employer, Gothenburg University, fired her.

Hearths show up in the archaeological record 800,000 years ago and the regular use of fire for cooking doesn't become widespread until more recently.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

The phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that leads to warmer conditions may also prolong and intensify the fire season (Heyerdahl et al. 2008; Jolly et al. 2015; Abatzoglou and Williams 2016), and it is clear that years with protracted or widespread wildland fire or increased fire severity are correlated with drought (Littell et al. 2009; van Mantgem et al. 2013).

Yet, increased forest fires, more severe and widespread heat waves and draughts, larger and more powerful storms, are all predictable consequences of global warming.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

The most easily available herb Tierra recommends for liver fire is yellow dock.86 Its energy is bitter and cool, it functions as an «alterative, chologue, astringent, aperient and blood tonic,» and he recommends it for skin disorders and as a purgative for bile congestion.87 With skin disorders, think zinc deficiency, and with skin disorders of liver fire, think of the widespread incidence of adult acne.

«Electricity, the widespread use of the light bulb, the discovery of fire,...

Machines also mass - produced theses delicate fabrics for the first time, which gave women of every social class access to them, making death by fire a widespread phenomenon.

My guess is that the scarcity is probably due to Fire Emblem not being as popular or widespread as The Legend of Zelda.

Montgomery County, Maryland, for example, has received widespread attention for its «Peer Assistance and Review» plan, in which principals and «consulting teachers» evaluate teachers through observation, work closely with those in need of support or improvement, and make firing decisions when necessary.

Chicago Sun - Times: CPS watchdog finds widespread pattern of unfair elementary admissions [See also WTTW Chicago public television and the Chicago Tribune] NYT: Michael Feinberg, a founder of KIPP schools, is fired after misconduct claims [See also WSJ, Houston Chronicle, Chalkbeat]

The Kindle Fire's reasonable price, together with the potential of widespread Android app support, makes the device an enticing option, especially for families who want to give a tablet to the kids without having to blast through five bills.

We're now waiting for the rumored Apple mini iPad and the rumored new Amazon Kindle Fire - the rumor drums are beating very loudly so we are expecting a Shoot - Out very soon... Stay tuned... Your Existing 1920x1080 HDTV is Already a True «Retina Display» There is a widespread misunderstanding of exactly what constitutes an Apple «Retina Display» - or any display that has an equivalent visual sharpness.

Called the deadliest Massachusetts fire in two decades, the effects of the fire are widespread.

He also fired two of the exhibition's four curators before widespread protests eventually pushed him to resign from his position.

In 1958, when a fire destroyed this and another water lily painting, the public's widespread expression of loss led to the acquisition of the works currently in the collection.

We believe that negative synergies between deforestation, climate change, and widespread use of fire indicate a tipping point for the Amazon system to flip to non-forest ecosystems in eastern, southern and central Amazonia at 20 - 25 % deforestation.

Widespread use of fire leads to drying of surrounding forest and greater vulnerability to fire in the subsequent year.

And would likely dry forests to the extent that fires would be widespread and also release massive amounts of green house gases.

Following the Grenfell Tower fire and the widespread concerns that the cladding system — and, in particular, the aluminium composite (ACM) panels containing unmodified polyethylene cores — had played a major part in the severity of the blaze, the Department of Communities & Local Government commissioned BRE to carry out a series of large - scale fire tests on a range of cladding system combinations.

The increasing use of coal for power generation in ASEAN countries will lead to widespread construction of coal - fired power plants, which, without the use of the best available cleaner coal technology (CCT), would result in increased greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions.

These changes and trends suggest a widespread drying of forests and an increasing risk of uncharacteristic fire and competition - induced water stress and mortality.

JAKARTA — Forest fires are underway in Indonesia as the rainy season tails off, marking the return of potentially widespread burning that threatens to once again blanket parts of the...

We also found that a rapid start to solar geoengineering would cause El - Niño - like warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, potentially causing drought and widespread forest fires in the Amazon and Southeast Asia.

Fire is another widespread cause of tree cover loss, and can be either natural or human - induced.

AFTER spending upwards of a trillion Euros of taxpayers money on the disastrous Energiewende program, all but destroying Germany's industrial heartland and causing widespread energy poverty to consumers and businesses alike, ideologically green - agressive Germany is giving up on its mad rush into unreliable «energy» — wind and solar — undergoing the biggest coal - fired power expansion in her history...

Massive fires have created headlines and caused widespread damage from Siberia to Alaska to the Northwest Territories to Alberta recently, all part of a trend of increased fire activity unheard of in the boreal forest over the past 10,000 years.

While the use of fire for land - clearing is illegal, the practice in nonetheless widespread, with satellites picking up hundreds of hotspots in a daily basis during the dry season, which typically runs through October.

«This includes record numbers and record intensity of hurricanes and typhoons, record widespread heavy rains and flooding — think Houston, Louisiana, the Carolinas (Hurricane Matthew) and now California — record drought, heatwaves and wild fires, and increasing inundations in coastal regions from rising sea level.»

«With both the frequency of forest fires and warmer temperatures predicted to increase with climate change, widespread melt events are likely to happen much more frequently in the future,» Keegan says.