Sentences with phrase «over lakes and rivers»

Over the next three weeks, as winter deepened, a cold spell iced over the lakes and rivers of Britain and high winds returned, whistling around Down House and rattling the windowpanes, Darwin's list grew.

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That over 99 % of Canada's lakes and rivers are no longer subject to federal oversight, and that some 3,000 environmental assessments were abruptly cancelled last year by the Conservatives?

I want people to talk about the great number of fish I caught, and the size of the monsters I pulled from lakes and rivers all over the world.

Despite widespread public concern over New Zealand's polluted rivers and lakes, the dairy industry plans to push the national dairy herd to record numbers.

Over 679,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was provided directly to the South Australian Murray (including over 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah LakOver 679,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was provided directly to the South Australian Murray (including over 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah Lakover 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah Lakes).

It takes into account, for example, what sort of water has been used at all stages of the life cycle (eg natural rainfall over agricultural land, water from rivers, lakes and groundwater resources); the context of local water scarcity; and whether the water would otherwise be used for another activity of critical importance.

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.

He recalled that a research conducted by a professor in a London university and published over three decades ago had predicted that unless one or some of the rivers from the Central African region are diverted to empty into the Lake Chad basin, the river would dry up.

[101] It is located at the origin of the Niagara River, which flows northward over Niagara Falls and into Lake Ontario.

With over 7,600 freshwater lakes, ponds and reservoirs and 70,000 miles of rivers, brooks and streams, New York State is particularly vulnerable to the introduction of invasive species.

When a river's waters rise high enough, they can spill over into the lake, dropping loads of sand and silt.

These threats include a proposed hydropower plant on the Ewaso Ngiro River, just over the border into Kenya, and a factory to process the soda ash from the lake itself.

Turning over rocks across the crater, the rover has compiled evidence of ancient water — a lake fed by rivers once occupied the crater itself — and organic compounds and other chemicals essential for life.

In addition, they are looking for traces of rivers, lakes, and saltwater bays, which will reveal the region's climate over the course of 2 to 3 million years.

The hike in acidity can kill plants and wildlife: Over the last 2 decades, scientists have documented harm to thousands of lakes and rivers and millions of hectares of high - altitude forests.

Like the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the Aral Sea has no naturally occurring outlets and over time collects salt from river deposits.

Over the last 20 years ichthyologist Barry Chernoff has collected more than a quarter - million fish in the lakes, ponds, and rivers of South America.

Before the river was «leveed off» and the landscape behind it given over to agriculture, La Grange Reach tapped into shallow lakes, thick pockets of woods, and myriad sandbars and sloughs, all of which moderated the flow of nutrients into it.

A glaciologist rather than a biologist, he wanted to investigate a question critical to climate change: Do subglacial rivers and lakes lubricate the movement of ice over land — and might they somehow accelerate a glacier's flow into the ocean, triggering rapid sea level rise?

Recent models indicate that the rain comes in twoforms: a constant, light drizzle over most of the surface, adding up totwo inches or so of precipitation per year, and occasional cloudburststhat carve out river channels and fill the lakes, only to evaporateagain when temperatures rise.

We snaked around and down until we got to an elevator that took us to the edge of the river that carries the water that comes over the falls to Lake Ontario.

Filmmakers supported over the years include: Sterlin Harjo (Seminole / Muskogee), Taika Waititi (Te Whānau - ā - Apanui), Billy Luther (Diné / Hopi / Laguna Pueblo), Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Iñupiaq), Aurora Guerrero (Xicana), Sydney Freeland (Diné), Ciara Leina'ala Lacy (Kanaka Maoli), Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr. (Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians) and Shaandiin Tome (Diné).

The Institute has established a rich legacy of commitment to Native filmmaking, supporting more than 300 Native and Indigenous filmmakers over the years, including Taika Waititi (Te Whānau - ā - Apanui), Chris Eyre (Cheyenne / Arapaho), Sterlin Harjo (Seminole / Muskogee), Billy Luther (Diné / Hopi / Laguna Pueblo), Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Iñupiaq), Aurora Guerrero (Xicana), Sydney Freeland (Diné), Blake Pickens (Chickasaw), Ciara Lacy (Kanaka Maoli), Razelle Benally (Oglala Lakota / Dine) and Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. (Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe).

We go over the river and through the woods - and over the mountains, and through the fields, and across lakes - to get to grandmother's house, and the Odyssey does wonderfully - rain, hail, sleet, snow, or shine.

The sludge - gray Onandaga River divided the city as it met Lake Erie beneath a steel bridge: the valley carved by the river was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once depeRiver divided the city as it met Lake Erie beneath a steel bridge: the valley carved by the river was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once deperiver was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once depended.

Today 30,000 plus employees are responsible for 21,000 route miles in 23 states with access to over 70 ocean, river and lake port terminals.

Opportunities for outdoor recreation are close at hand in the adjacent 1,700 - acre Dam Site Park, which features boat ramps, picnic tables, and hiking trails; Beaver Lake stretches out over 70 miles and has 449 miles of shoreline to explore — it has been called the «newest great lake of the White River&raqLake stretches out over 70 miles and has 449 miles of shoreline to explore — it has been called the «newest great lake of the White River&raqlake of the White River».

People from all over the world visit the Philippines for its mountains, lakes, rivers and picture perfect beaches with crystal - clear water.

Once over the pass we bid farewell to the Central Lakes District and follow the Haast River out to the West Coast and the settlement of Haast.

Stretching across over 900 km the labyrinth of lakes, rivers, inlets and creeks form a truly magnificent eco system and...

In fact, each of the nine teams of EPA divers averages over 100 logged missions each year in all varieties of aquatic habitats, ranging from freshwater lakes, rivers, and quarries, to brackish estuaries and the salty waters of the open ocean.

Queenstown was carved out of the land by glaciers, rivers and lakes, but it has been shaped by adventurers drawn to the region from all over the world.

Orions Zodiacs and launches will take guests up river carved gorges to magnificent waterfalls like King Cascades, or consider a flight seeing excursion over the striking Bungle Bungles and Lake Argyle from Kununurra.

Nutti Sámi Siida is the only company offering reindeer sledding tours through woods, across frozen lakes and rivers, and even over the tundra.

It is a land of mountains, tropical jungles, rivers, lakes, over 200 islands called «cayes» and the second largest barrier reef in the world, in one of the most beautiful settings in the Western Caribbean.

Take SH 41 west past Tokaanu and Omori, pausing to enjoy the view from the roadside at the top of the Waihi Cliffs over Lake Taupo and the Tongariro River Delta.

If you fly over Katmai National Park and Preserve, you will see vast expanses of wilderness: stretches of spongy tundra, forests of spruce and willow, craggy snow - covered mountains, and free - flowing lakes and rivers.

As Lake Brooks and Naknek Lake freeze over during the Alaska's long, cold winter the Brooks River continues to flow.

Journey over frozen lakes and rivers and through the beautiful Saguenay forests and experience the Mahikan, a unique breed of dog which legend believes «fears nothing».

Situated at the mouth of the Brooks River and the shore of Naknek Lake, Brooks Camp attracts people from all over the world to view brown bears, enjoy world - class fishing, and learn about the long human history of the area.

There are over 3,000 river and 3 million lakes here!

This presidential proclamation expanded Katmai's boundaries west over the Brooks River area and much of Naknek Lake as well as north to include nearly all of Katmai's modern coastline.

The Katmai wilderness encompasses hundreds of miles of coastline, vast swaths of forest and tundra, thousands of lakes, rivers, small streams, and over a dozen active volcanoes.

There are breath - taking views over the Blyde River Canyon, the lake and the Three Rondavels.

Within the City there are over 300,000 hectares of National Parks and State Forests, there are rivers, coastal lakes, estuaries and many miles of navigable waterways.

Oregon Coast Fishing: There's over 30 lakes and rivers to choose from in Coos County, and bay and ocean fishing.

We have only a day and a half to take it all in but we certainly make the most of it, the Athabasca glacier, the river, the waterfalls, the Maligne canyon, the lakes and the pretty Alpine resort nestling among it all at just over 1,000 metres.

Our planned route to the Rocky Mountains would take us from Prince George, over Tabor Lake, Purden Lake, the Fraser River, Torpy River, over the McGregor Range and Plateau, and finally around Mount Sir Alexander within the Kakwa Mountain Range.

Experience Kununurra, «the eastern gateway to the Kimberley» and surroundings by air with a morning scenic flight over the renowned Ord Irrigation area, Carr - Boyd Ranges, Ord River and the impressive Lake Argyle.

Surrounded by Lake Cooroibah, over 50 kilometres of pristine beach at the gateway to the Great Sandy National Park and Queensland's cleanest urban river system, the Noosa Rriver system, the Noosa RiverRiver.