Sentences with phrase «region over thousands of years»

They also study changes in human society and cultures in our region over thousands of years and their changing relationships with the environment.

How did ancient humans go on to disperse the population in different regions over thousands of years?

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Almonds have been cultivated for thousands of years, and early references to them include a passage from the Bible dating to 1400 B.C. Over the centuries, almonds have been enjoyed as a delicacy, revered as a fertility charm, and traded along the ancient Silk Road between the Mediterranean region and China.

On Thursday, June 29, 2017, tens of thousands of Bronxites and revelers from all over the region joined Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and State Senator Jeff Klein as they hosted the borough's official kickoff to the year's Independence Day Celebrations, the annual «New York Salutes America» boardwalk festival and fireworks extravaganza at Orchard Beach.

Just over one year ago, a magnitude - 9 earthquake hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, triggering one of the most destructive tsunamis in a thousand years.

As the region warms due to increased greenhouse - gas emissions, ice melts, reducing Antarctica's elevation over centuries or thousands of years.

What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The organisation, previously known as TROCN and OCN North East Region, has helped thousands of people into higher education over the past 20 years.

Surrounded by the craggy peaks of the Remarkables and fringed by Lake Wakatipu's sapphire waters, Queenstown provides access to the region's splendid landscapes, carved over thousands of years by slow - moving glaciers.

Oman is immensely proud of its rich Arabian culture and history, with one of the oldest civilisations in the region, dating back over five thousand years.

Every year, the Marlborough Wine Festival attracts thousands of people from all over New Zealand to savour the stunning wine produced in the Marlborough region.

-LSB-...] Home to 108 million people, the Loess Plateau in Northern China is one of the world's most eroded regions, as a result of thousands of years of over-exploitation over its fragile ecosystems built on dry powdery wind - blown soil9.

This permafrost carbon is the remnant of plants and animals accumulated in perennially frozen soil over thousands of years, and the permafrost region contains twice as much carbon as there is currently in the atmosphere.

That region has been melting at about its current rate over thousands of years.

These regions are crucial to the global carbon cycle because they are rich in soil organic carbon, which has built up in frozen soils and peat layers over thousands of years.

Obviously the climate of the region over the last thousands of years was everything but stable.

Nevertheless, as pieces of evidence accumulated, a growing number of scientists found it plausible that the climate over large regions, if not the entire world, had sometimes changed markedly in a thousand years or even less.