Sentences with phrase «over vast areas»

The discovery follows another finding that Ruedas published this year showing that the South American cottontail, which was considered to be a single species distributed over a vast area from Mexico to most of South America, really only occupies a small area of Brazil.
Wilpattu National Park, named after the hundreds of ponds scattered over the vast area, is known for leopard sightings and home to thirty one species of mammal, including the sloth bear, water buffalo and spotted deer.
The Vikings introduces young readers to the people whose expertise as sailors and shipbuilders — and their fierce raiding spirit — enabled them to trade, conquer, and explore over a vast area.
Research has shown that deploying renewable energy over a vast area connected by a transmission system would actually increase reliability and reduce intermittency compared to smaller networks since it would route power from areas where there is sunlight and wind to areas where there isn't.
Islamic armies, imbued with what Mohammed claimed was divine authorization, imposed Islam by force over vast areas, all the while extorting wealth from subjugated Jews and Christians to fund their ongoing conquests.
«NOAA's satellites underpin hurricane forecasts by providing meteorological data over vast areas where we don't have other means of information.»
It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.
In a report to the FCC last month, they say that overlaps between the two systems are inevitable, and that this «will result in widespread, severe GPS jamming [and] will deny GPS service over vast areas of the United States».
It opens Perú's door to carbon sequestration agreements and is an enormous boon to conservation and monitoring efforts over vast areas for the long term.»
The massive impact would have disturbed the seafloor over vast areas of the planet, which might well have triggered a methane release.
Preserved beads and stones suggest that they, but not the Neanderthals, maintained social networks over vast areas.
«And if that's true, then when we look over the vast area around a galaxy, we should actually be able to see remnants of the formation process.»
Ocean heating can alter currents, bringing relatively fast and sudden weather changes over a vast area.
Major changes in the upper ocean resulting from global warming are likely to include increased sea - surface temperatures and thermal stratification, and reduced nutrient upwelling over vast areas of the open ocean (Bopp et al., 2001; Gregg et al., 2003; Fischlin et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2008).
Dating sites okinawa japan it was fought over a vast area.
The breed was developed to be independent and forceful, responsible for guarding its master's flocks without human assistance over vast areas, therefore, socializing the dog as a puppy is necessary.
Re # 10: It's not the mirrors as mirrors, it's the idea of destroying the natural ecosystems over vast areas of land in order to generate electricity — and the exercise in either cynicism or sheer obliviousness that is required to call the result «green power».
They claim that trees are replacing once open grassland over vast areas and that these «invasive woody weeds» are the real -LSB-...]
Already there have been massive forest fires in Borneo and Amazonia, casting palls of highly polluting smoke over vast areas.
Amazon - The Amazon rainforest hosts some of the richest biodiversity in the world; stores vast amounts of carbon; and regulates the climate and rainfall over a vast area.
Windbreaks, fire management and resilient varieties are needed over a vast area in the north and east, as well as the few larger forested areas in Western Europe.
In English, «WAN» stands for «Wide Area Network», a computing term that refers to connecting many computers over a vast area, similar to Wanchain's goal of connecting all blockchains together in a massive network.
Spearheaded target marketing over a vast area of Northeast Indiana.
Saturn's icy 246 - mile - wide moon Mimas (near lower left) appears tiny by comparison to the planet's rings, but scientists think the all of the small, icy particles spread over a vast area that comprise the rings are no more than a few times as massive as Mimas.
We have excluded many of the famous dinosaur sites in the badlands of the US and elsewhere since fossils tend to be scattered over vast areas.
The Vikings begins by providing geographical information on Scandinavia, homeland of the people whose expertise as sailors and shipbuilders — and their fierce raiding spirit — enabled them to trade, conquer, and explore over a vast area.
Over vast areas both commerce and missions ceased.
These can incinerate every combustible object, natural or man - made, over vast areas, including occupants of all but the deepest oxygen - equipped shelters.
Mounting a serious search for water and signs of ancient life demands probes that can fan out over vast areas, both above and below ground, and poke into nooks and crannies.
The village is spread over a vast area, and a real center is hard to find in Ponta Delgada.
It is not surprising that over this vast area that the geology and climate vary substantially and that this leads to variations in behavior of Greenland glaciers.
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