Sentences with phrase «on land and the oceans»

Local Arctic residents are traveling, hunting, boating and observing wildlife on the land and ocean throughout the year whereas scientists only conduct field studies for a limited time during the summer.

Changes in the ocean, ocean chemistry and biology on land and ocean need a lot of study.

Also, as regards the issue of the what effect visible light has on land and oceans, what is the actual evidence?

Furthermore, they found «increasing evidence (P = 0.89) for a long - term (50 - year) increase in the airborne fraction (AF) of CO2 emissions, implying a decline in the efficiency of CO2 sinks on land and oceans in absorbing anthropogenic emissions.»

AGW climate scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..

In truth, even if Christmas does bring warmth, it won't matter a whit, and not because the true measurements — based on comprehensive satellite readings rather than from a scattering of thermometers on land and ocean buoys — show 2014 to be nowhere near setting records.

They wanted to simulate what would happen to the carbon sinks on the land and the ocean for each model as the world gets warmer.

Note the logarithmic scale on the vertical axis: «1» means that the land / ocean precipitation ratio is equal to e = 2.718, «2» means it is equal to e2 ≈ 7.4; 0 means that this ratio is unity (equal precipitation on land and the ocean); «-1» means this ratio is 1 / e ≈ 0.4; and so on.

Not exact matches

Two touched down on land, and the plan for the third was for it to settle back on an unmanned drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

It's an emergency surgical intervention meant to undo damage caused by human activity both in the oceans and on dry land, and it has been shown to work — bringing dead reef sections back from the edge in just a few years.

Earlier this month, Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and attempted to land it on a floating platform in the Atlantic ocean.

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

Three billion people depend on protein from fish, but global ocean biodiversity is suffering due to pollution from land and ocean activities.

During that mission, a Dragon resupply ship will launch toward the station, and SpaceX will also attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on an «autonomous spaceport drone ship» in the Atlantic Ocean.

RW: Have studies proved to the federal government that products from the Kinder Morgan pipeline can be safely transported both on land and on the ocean?

For these characters whose mother is willing to turn her back on them just a little, a lake becomes an ocean, its far shores another country, its collection of villagers, farmers, and charcoal burners natives to be approached cannily by intrepid explorers whose self - imposed summer's work is to map these unknown lands.

There is no way in Hell (which there is one) you can convince any logical thinking person (myself included) that my ancestors crawled out of the ocean and somehow magically grew arms and legs from nothing and decided to live on land just «because».

Meanwhile pollution approaches the danger point on land, in the air and in the oceans.

Of those species, 6.5 million would be on land and 2.2 million in the ocean.

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

If the U.S. had China on the 49th Parallel and Germany on the Rio Grande, and a long land border with the Islamic world where the Pacific Ocean now is, it might be a very different place.

O Lord Chief of the gods Who alone art exalted on earth and in Heaven,... O Merciful Gracious Father in Whose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in Heaven?

Those millions who lived in North and South America, and on land bodies in the Pacific Ocean before about 1500 were SOL since there was no way for them to learn about Jesus.

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

This small Central American country squeezes mountains, jungles, rainforests and beaches on a narrow strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Founded on the philosophy of sourcing and serving naturally grown and ethically raised food products, this cuisine seeks to be true to the ingredients with respect for the oceans and land from which they came.

The secret to Laphroaig is that it benefits from the happy circumstances of where it is produced — next to ocean water and on land that gives Laphroaig a unique peaty taste.

«Colt Brennan could have said, «I'm gonna go down to the ocean on Waikiki and walk on water back toward land, Michael Jackson moonwalking.

It was one of the first births I've cried at because it just pulls so much on your heart, how mom and dad serve this country with all their heart, and now birth their first child while separated by thousands of miles of ocean and foreign lands.

And they're not just sitting on the sidelines, they're really promoting aggressive policies for drilling of oil and gas on public lands and in our ocean.&raqAnd they're not just sitting on the sidelines, they're really promoting aggressive policies for drilling of oil and gas on public lands and in our ocean.&raqand gas on public lands and in our ocean.&raqand in our ocean.»

When the Air Force needs to fly their fuel - hungry fighter jets across oceans and continents without landing, they rely on flying gas stations like the KC - 10 Extender tanker to keep them aloft.

«These patterns that are based on decadal analysis of modern data, and then the hydroclimate proxies that give the salinity in the oceans and the rainfall on land seem to show the same picture.»

For every species of mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian on land, there is a species of bony fish in the ocean.

Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging effects similar or even more problematic than in our oceans.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

Exploring those regions or landing near cracks on the moons Europa and Enceladus, which may harbor subsurface oceans, could require reinstituting the baking step, Conley says.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

But current evidence suggests that plastic pollution is as prevalent in land and freshwater ecosystems as it is in the oceans, where it's found «from the equator to the poles,» says Rochman, author of a separate commentary on the state of plastic pollution research published in the April 6 Science.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

«We've shown that under clean and humid conditions, like those that exist over the ocean and some land in the tropics, tiny aerosols have a big impact on weather and climate and can intensify storms a great deal,» said Fan, an expert on the effects of pollution on storms and weather.

Generally speaking, there are two types of crust on Earth: a lighter continental crust that is rich in silicon and constitutes the dry land above sea level, and a denser oceanic crust where water gathers in the form of large oceans.

9 The Shark That Walks on Land: And other strange but true tales of mysterious sea creatures by Michael Bright, The Robson Press, # 12.99 / $ 16.99 This is a book about the ocean's marvels, mythical and real — among them the metre - long epaulette shark that does indeed walk on its paddle - shaped fiAnd other strange but true tales of mysterious sea creatures by Michael Bright, The Robson Press, # 12.99 / $ 16.99 This is a book about the ocean's marvels, mythical and real — among them the metre - long epaulette shark that does indeed walk on its paddle - shaped fiand real — among them the metre - long epaulette shark that does indeed walk on its paddle - shaped fins.

A region's climate rests on many variables: land and sea temperatures, the shape of the landmass, how ocean currents mix globally, even the trajectory of Earth's orbit.

Analyzing and dating these rocks, they found that ocean water began to appear on the ridge's land - facing side in 1945, even as the ice sheet remained grounded on the ridge's summit, scientists report online today in Nature.

Able to hitch - hike on boats and planes, land species are no longer constrained by the oceans and can turn up anywhere and everywhere.

Analysis of the teeth suggests, however, that the giant croc was a marine reptile, which sought its prey in ocean waters, while alligators tended to hunt in freshwater and on land.

But although some evidence points to past water oceans on Mars, only small amounts of carbonates have been found there — in Martian meteorites that landed on Earth and in atmospheric dust and bright soils on the planet.

Around 250 million years ago, the so - called «Great Dying» saw 70 per cent of species wiped out on land and 95 per cent in the oceans.

The global average temperature over land and ocean surfaces for January to October 2014 was the highest on record, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).