Sentences with phrase «percent of the continent»

Marchant suspects more of these landforms are buried under ice, which covers more than 98 percent of the continent.

Many speculate these landforms are present throughout Antarctica, buried beneath the thick layer of ice that covers 98 percent of the continent.

Along with my fellow field assistant Keith Heyward, I was joining Marchant and his graduate student, Sean Mackay, flying 60 miles across the sea ice to the Dry Valleys, a series of valleys and ridges that lie roughly east to west and largely free of the ice that covers 98 percent of the continent.

Little surface ice is visible, unlike the other 98 percent of the continent.

The EU is currently in the throes of setting a new agenda for Europe's climate and energy policy, following on from Europe's ambitious and legally - binding target of meeting 20 percent of the continent's energy needs with renewable energy by 2020.

When Spotify launched in Europe in 2008, just 0.1 percent of the continent's internet users paid for a music subscription.

Since 1970 the restricted acreage rose from 247 million acres to 741 million, about 15 percent of the continent's land surface.

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The number of people using the online room rental service on the continent rose by 143 percent to about 765,000 guests in 2016 from the year before, said Nicola D'Elia, the firm's Africa and Middle East chief.

China produced over 30 percent of the 1 trillion eggs that were laid last year which has raised numerous environmental concerns on the continent.

The Algarve, Portugal, is the top retirement option in Western Europe for the retiree on a budget — the cost of living in Portugal is on average 30 percent lower than in any other country on the Continent.

German inflation numbers are also set to be reported later on Monday, with investors expecting the continent's largest economy to record consumer price rises of 1.6 percent.

Insolvent homeowners in Europe face a lifetime of literal debt peonage to make the banks (even foreign banks, which dominate Central Europe's post-Soviet economies) whole on their bad debts as the continent's real estate prices are plunging even more steeply than those in the United States — some 70 percent in Iceland and Latvia.

Across the continent, 64 percent of the fisheries» resource base is at a medium to high risk from overfishing

In the tenth century, when the original European forests began to be converted to farmland and pasturage, ninety percent of the entire continent was covered by trees; today only twenty percent of these trees remain (Myers 1979, 121).

One reason Ethiopians were involved in high - profile tragedies at opposite ends of the continent: Their nation is the second-most populous in Africa as well as the second - poorest in the world (87 percent of Ethiopia's 94 million people are impoverished).

Irene Tinker comments: «This clearly is an absurd assertion about a continent where women are reported to be doing 60 - 80 percent of the work in the fields and working up to 16 hours a day during the planting season.

If we focus on the Catholic population alone, Africa had 1.9 million Catholics in 1900, but by 2000 the continent's Catholic population had risen to 130 million, representing a gross increase of 6,708 percent.

International organizations like UNFPA are engaging in a full - court press to increase contraceptive prevalence in Africa (now the world's lowest at 27 percent) and to liberalize abortion laws by several means, including a controversial continent - wide framework called the Maputo Plan of Action.

In North America, Domtar — the continent's largest producer of uncoated paper — has committed to achieving Forest Stewardship Council certification on 100 percent of the land it owns and manages.

This unflinching support and national pride has maintained the FIFA World Cup on almost every Ghanaians» watching schedule, despite the country's failure to qualify for the 2018 finals, for in seeking its World Cup win of the future, Ghanaians have become the continent's greatest experts, with Ghanaian men and women sharply outperforming their counterparts in identifying the number of African teams playing in this year's games, with 58 percent of Ghanaian men and 38 percent of women very clear on who «got through».

Learn what percent of your DNA is from populations around the world and contact your DNA relatives across continents or across the street.

But roughly 91 percent of Antarctica — nearly twice the size of Australia — is unmapped, and the largest unsurveyed region on the icy continent is a region called Princess Elizabeth Land.

On the continent as a whole, more than 90 percent of the population relies on firewood or charcoal.

Accordingly, humans are, from a global perspective, responsible for 84 percent of the total amount of tropical forest fragmentation, although the picture varies slightly from continent to continent.

Across the continent, farmers are growing between 10 and 25 percent of what is possible and profitable.

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft U.N. report showed.

So far, more than 40 percent of the plant species growing in these habitats in Europe have been established on other continents.

In Africa and other continents, soybean losses of up to 80 percent have been reported due to this disease.

The study, compiled by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative and the first of its kind to look at the vulnerability of bird populations in Canada, the United States and Mexico, said 37 percent of all 1,154 species on the continent needed urgent conservation action.

«One of the most surprising finds was that 125,000 years ago, the average body size of mammals on Africa was already 50 percent smaller than on other continents,» said Smith, a professor in the UNM Department of Biology who has studied megafauna extinction for more than 15 years.

The researchers analyzed rainfall data recorded throughout Africa from 1920 to 2013 and found that the Sahara, which occupies much of the northern part of the continent, expanded by 10 percent during this period when looking at annual trends.

They found that the Human Footprint has increased in 63 percent of NWHS across all continents except Europe over the past two decades.

The backbone would move power across the continent at the extreme high - voltage rating: 765 kilovolts, which would reduce typical system losses of 3 to 8 percent to around 1 percent.

We may not miss the phantom shiner, the thicktail chub, the stumptooth minnow or the harelip sucker, but these freshwater fishes are among 39 species (3.2 percent of North America's freshwater fish population) and 18 subspecies that have vanished from the continent's waters over the past century.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

A survey of 193 hunter - gatherer languages from different continents found that most of these languages stop at the number five or below: 61 percent in South America, 92 percent in Australia and 41 percent in Africa.

In the first continent - wide study of the effects of fire on bird and mammal diversity in the African savanna environment, researchers have found that increasing «pyrodiversity» boosts the variety of species of mammals by around 20 percent and of birds by 30 percent in savannas with high rainfall.

Adhikari estimated that about 40 percent of the Earth's polar movement is due to Greenland, 25 percent to Antarctica, and 25 percent to changes in water storage on continents.

January 14, 2015 • Francis is in Asia on a six - day tour intended to build the Roman Catholic Church's following on a continent that holds 60 percent of the world's population but only 12 percent of Catholics.

Wagons make up 42 percent of sales of all premium midsize cars on Alfa Romeo's home continent, while sedans only account for 33 percent; that means that Alfa will miss out on a very large audience if it were to only offer the Giulia as a sedan.

Even this can be termed an understatement given the astounding 3,606 percent growth rate that internet usage has reached in the continent achieved since the beginning of the new millennium.

«The Portuguese language is the common heritage to four percent of the seven billion inhabitants of the planet, across five continents.

Cláudia Almeida e Silva, general manager for FNAC Portugal, said: «The Portuguese language is the common heritage to four percent of the seven billion inhabitants of the planet, across five continents.

Up to 35 percent off select Antarctica itineraries (such as the Photography Series: Antarctic Explorer, an 11 - day photography tour of the Antarctic Peninsula, which sails on an ice strengthened ship through the Drake Passage to the Great White Continent.

Occupying almost five percent of the earth's surface, North America is the third largest continent.

Looking at the roots of human existence, and the fruits of our toil with the land, Jackie Nickerson captured agrarian laborers in Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe — where 70 percent of the population on the African continent works in agriculture.

The study also noted a 10 percent rise in the area of sea ice around the continent since 1980, which the authors said appears related to changes in winds ascribed to the depletion of the ozone layer there.

In view of all this, the IPCC AR4 Chapter 9 Executive Summary states that: «It is likely (66 percent probability) that there has been a substantial anthropogenic contribution to surface temperature increases in every continent except Antarctica since the middle of the 20th century.»

(09/25/2011) On six continents, in over 75 percent of the world's countries, people came out en masse yesterday to attend over 2,000 events to demonstrate the power of renewable energy to combat global climate change.

At the other end of the earth, the 2 - kilometer - thick Antarctic ice sheet, which covers a continent about twice the size of Australia and contains 70 percent of the world's fresh water, is also beginning to melt.