Sentences with phrase «populated areas of the island»

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Future City Dongtan China watches over every drop of water On a small, thinly populated island about 14 miles off the coast of Shanghai, a city is rising that could spell salvation for the 1 billion people expected to live in China's urban areas by 2045.

«This works for stations all over the world — on islands, or areas that are pretty sparsely populated and don't have a lot of GPS stations,» Crowell said.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

During the Miocene, this area consisted of islands populated by unique species.

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

With a total area roughly the size of Colorado, the island of Newfoundland makes up 25 % of the area and 94 % of the population (approximately half a million), leaving the larger area of Labrador sparsely populated.

As the southernmost part of New York City and New York State, and home to more than 475,000 proud citizens, Staten Island is the least populated of the five boroughs even though it's third - largest in area.

Despite the success of eradication campaigns on geographically isolated islands, logistic barriers and opposition from residents would make the application of lethal strategies in populated mainland areas unfeasible.

Long - distance movements from the island interior into peripheral, human - populated areas were recorded for 7 (26 %) of the 27 radiocollared cats, including animals of both sexes (2 males, 5 females) and both intact and sterilized cats (5 intact, 2 sterilized).

Cats regularly moved between natural habitats in the interior of the island and human - populated areas regardless of sex or treatment status, although most (68 %; 17/25) of the cats that moved long distances were female.

The most populated district on the island, about 16,000 of the island's 71,000 residents reside in the Wailua / Kapaa area.

The Vancouver Island region is a large, sparsely populated area, encompassing Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, as well as a portion of the mainland.

On our last visit we chose a hotel I'd call «moderate luxury,» which kept us well - enough rested to put all of our energy into getting into the island's less populated areas, meeting villagers and their children, absorbing the timeless beauty of the island, and taking pictures in remote spots from which to remember it all.

When looking for accommodations on Kaua`i, you can choose from three main areas of the island: the more populated eastern shore; the lush, tropical North Shore; and the arid southern shore.

Many holidaymakers favour this hotel due to its location away from the more densely populated areas in the southern half of the island.

The Vancouver Island, Victoria and the Gulf Islands region is a large, sparsely populated area and is home to one of the world's most diverse ecosystems.

The island is seemingly heavily populated by rottweilers and in some parts of the island, there are as many as five or six in a single area, making navigation significantly difficult until a rhythm is found.

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

The problem is not with taking surface temperature measurements; it's that so many of those thermometers are in heavily populated areas where the population has been increasing for a long time, creating heat islands.

If one is to extract all the human made sources of heat generation and retention — heat islands, warm machinery, traffic, central heating etc. (and this would include any supposedly produced by CO2) then that results in one looking at the weather \ climate in the sparsely populated areas of the world.

Though it is one of the smallest states by area, Rhode Island is the second most densely populated state in the nation.