Sentences with phrase «on lakes and rivers»

Among these physical changes are increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice - free seasons in the oceans and on lakes and rivers, earlier snowmelt and alterations in river flows.

These include increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice - free seasons in the ocean and on lakes and rivers, earlier snowmelt, and alterations in river flows.

As you raced through hairpin turns at breakneck speeds on lakes and rivers, you'll find yourself struggle to retain control and reach the finish line in record time.

Get Progressive boat insurance, and you're automatically covered on all lakes and rivers in the U.S. and Canada plus ocean waters within 75 miles of the coast.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

Already known for its world - class fishing, the Sundial Bridge and water recreation on lakes and rivers, Redding is quickly becoming a cyclist's paradise.

On lakes and rivers across the country, fleets of skinny boats will skitter over the water like giant insects, their wooden legs moving in unison.

Not exact matches

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

The federal government in September ordered a temporary halt to construction on corps land around and underneath Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir in the Dakotas.

On one hand, it confirms how much Canadians value our water and how integral our lakes and rivers are to our national identity; on the other, it reveals a troubling carelessness with a resource Canadians still consider unlimited in its abundance.On one hand, it confirms how much Canadians value our water and how integral our lakes and rivers are to our national identity; on the other, it reveals a troubling carelessness with a resource Canadians still consider unlimited in its abundance.on the other, it reveals a troubling carelessness with a resource Canadians still consider unlimited in its abundance...

The city at the mouth of the Manitowoc River on Lake Michigan is home to more than 33,000 renters and homeowners, and got its name from the local Native Americans, which called it «Home of the Good Spirit.»

CN operates a railway that terminates at Hay River on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, 450 road km south of NICO and provides a rail link for haulage of the concentrate that will be produced at the mine site.

VICTORIA — A new proposal for an Alberta oil sands refinery on B.C.'s coast would still rely on the same Enbridge oil pipeline that poses environmental risks to British Columbia's rivers and lakes, and still means an end to the...

VANCOUVER — New Democrats are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to protect the health of our oceans, lakes and rivers by banning the sale of products containing plastic microbeads.

Already more than 16,000 lakes and rivers within Canada have had their protected status removed in order to facilitate oil exploration and resource mining on First Nations land.

Rather, brine is collected from springs on the floor of the lake and on its shores, carried around it and dumped into the river.

They can unite in measures that prevent ecological degradation — such as deforestation, pollution of lakes and rivers, and so on.

She, beside me walking with her secret joys, motioned her two gloved hands airborne toward a stick out on the lake beyond the boys, a dark branch balanced at the dam's ledge, in the roar and plunging of that river on whose cascade into noise it seemed to hesitate, poised there at the edge of more.

On August 26, 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit Houston hard with winds of 130 mph and up to 52 inches of rain, overflowing the bayous, reservoirs, lakes, and rivers.

Nestled in the heart of the Salmon River Mountains, and on the shores of the stunning Payette Lake, Shore Lodge in McCall is an idyllic retreat that offers refuge from big city life amongst unparalleled natural beauty.

I also love fishing (lake, stream or ocean) so I do that whenever I get the (seemingly rare) opportunity — usually at our river house on the Merced River where we keep a nice little stash of canoes and fishing priver house on the Merced River where we keep a nice little stash of canoes and fishing pRiver where we keep a nice little stash of canoes and fishing poles.

In the late 80's Bobby and I spent a week with some friends on a houseboat on Lake Powell, a lake on the Colorado River in the southwestern ULake Powell, a lake on the Colorado River in the southwestern Ulake on the Colorado River in the southwestern U.S..

The release of up to 75,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water and up to 15,000 ML of New South Wales held environmental water into the Lachlan River commenced on 7 June 2013 from Lake Brewster and was completed until mid July.

FamilyFarmed interview Will about his business» origins, why food businesses need contract manufacturers, the biggest supply chain challenges... and why he made the highest bid for a CEO yacht cruise on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan that was a silent auction prize at last April's Frontera 30th Anniversary Celebration.

Fresh and cured fish from its coastline on the Baltic is a common staple as is fresh water fish from the 1200 rivers and 6000 lakes in Latvia.

Water trails are recreational waterways on a lake, river or ocean between specific locations, containing access points and day - use and / or camping sites for the boating public.

Here we are on Thursday and cruising right along on my plan - hopping from ocean to lake to river and I think back to the ocean again tomorrow.

-- Take a wild swim — in the sea, a river or lake — Make a den in the woods — Hike a hill and marvel at the views — Go crabbing or fishing for your supper — Go on a night cycle around your neighbourhood — see it in a different light!

Van Patten Woods is an Oak forest on Sterling Lake that provides five miles of trails and connects to the Des Plaines River Trail.

From the time I was four years old, my father and my grandfather and my uncles would journey into the wilds of Maine, waking me well before sunrise, to climb on snowmobiles and travel through the woods out across the frozen lakes and rivers.

Lincoln Park is bounded generally by North Avenue on the south, the North Branch of the Chicago River on the west, Diversey Parkway on the north and Lake Michigan on the east.

Unlike previous special exhibits like Amphibians and Jellies, which focused on one species or class of animals, this exhibit will focus instead on the various forms of beauty in our lakes, rivers and oceans across the globe.

The International Joint Commission Board, which controls the water level on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, voted to continue record - high water releases at the Moses - Saunders dam in Massena until further notice.

The AuSable River Association has released its annual report on the water quality of Mirror Lake, and warns that increasing salt and chloride levels could have major impacts on the overall health of the lLake, and warns that increasing salt and chloride levels could have major impacts on the overall health of the lakelake.

Will homeowner's insurance policies protect those homes and property ravaged by rising waters on the south shore of Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence River in recent weeks?

Two area state lawmakers say they have reached agreement on bipartisan legislation to provide $ 90 million in financial relief for people living along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River seaway.

Don't expect cuts to the federal program that funded the cleanup of the Buffalo River, sturgeon restoration in the Niagara River, beach forecasting programs on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and other research and rehabilitation efforts in the Great Lakes, Rep. Chris Collins said.

Specifically, the focus will be on how the International Joint Committee has regulated the levels of the lake and the St. Lawrence River.

On July 4th, 1817, the groundbreaking of the Erie Canal took place in Rome, and was completed between Lake Erie and the Hudson River in 1825.

Both houses of the Canadian federal government have passed a new law that when enacted will lift several years of uncertainty concerning the rights of American boaters and anglers on the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, the Niagara River — in fact, on any border water of the two countries.

«That's allowing waste to be dumped into rivers and streams and in the same month, she accepted the River Keeper Award out in the St. Lawrence,» Wilson said, referring to an award given by a nonprofit for the lawmaker's work to support Plan 2014, a plan to modify water levels on Lake Ontario.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson Rriver or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson RiverRiver.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will paddle down the Indian River in a whitewater rafting race at noon today on the second day of Cuomo's inaugural Adirondack Challenge festival in Indian Lake.

The Senate holds hearings on recent flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River Oct. 10.

The recent rain has certainly had a major impact on areas around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

An inventor and sportsman as well, he constructed his own private airport on a portion of the land now underwater beneath Lake Tappan, and constructed Rockland County's first private golf course on another section, along Blue Hill Road and the Hackensack River.

There will be a new generation of equipment to control the flow between treatment facilities, pumping stations and tanks; there is a system to alert customers and large institutions, such as hospitals, to interruptions in service; old pipes are replaced more rapidly to limit leaks; and officials are working toward a system to move water from north to south, so the Southtowns can rely on the Van De Water treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last summer.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP & WXXI News)-- New York State lawmakers are planning to hold a hearing on recent flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

And so Cuomo's casino - siting commission dutifully announced the placement of three new gambling emporiums — one up in the Finger Lakes, not too close to the Indian casinos to be a bother; another on an a brownfield site along the Mohawk River in Schenectady, and a third in Sullivan County to entice New Yorkers tired of getting their action from the Genting gaming behemoth at Aqueduct race track in QueeAnd so Cuomo's casino - siting commission dutifully announced the placement of three new gambling emporiums — one up in the Finger Lakes, not too close to the Indian casinos to be a bother; another on an a brownfield site along the Mohawk River in Schenectady, and a third in Sullivan County to entice New Yorkers tired of getting their action from the Genting gaming behemoth at Aqueduct race track in Queeand a third in Sullivan County to entice New Yorkers tired of getting their action from the Genting gaming behemoth at Aqueduct race track in Queens.

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