Sentences with phrase «river and lakes»

Due to their crucial role in the aquatic habitat, the extinction of these small natural treatment plants in rivers and lakes would have serious impacts on the aquatic habitat.

Surface water in the form of rivers and lakes dominate the landscape.

We have swimming beaches in our many rivers and lakes.

It's not just about rivers and lakes, it's what this decision represents for our treaty partners, and the bigger issues surrounding how the bill is being run through.

This world possesses rivers and lakes of liquid methane — though even the best telescopes can't see them through the moon's thick, nitrogen - rich atmosphere.

This is a problem for many species as Norwegian rivers and lakes are already low on calcium.

These layers have been accumulating for 6 million years as rivers and lakes came and went.

The finding highlights how important rivers and lakes are as a source of new species, just as that supply is under threat from disappearing freshwater habitats.

This in turn makes rivers and lakes warmer, which can affect fish and other aquatic species in relation to things like feeding and reproduction.

When I looked through the magazines, all the pictures showed boats in rivers and lakes.

Instead, he believes that they used their long necks to feed off weeds growing on the bottom of rivers and lakes.

Illegal gold miners are estimated to dump more than 30 tons of mercury into rivers and lakes in the Amazon region each year, poisoning fish and people as far as 250 miles downstream.

A shrimp from America has been invading Europe's rivers and lakes for several decades, but something seems to be preventing this colonist from becoming numerous and problematic, like so many other invaders — such as the Californian grey squirrel and American crayfish.

Reductions of Arctic sea ice and glaciers (see Lemke et al., 2007), reductions in the duration of river and lake ice in much of the sub-Arctic (Prowse et al., 2004; Walsh et al., 2005), and a recent (1980s to present) warming of permafrost in nearly all areas for which measurements are available (Romanovsky et al., 2002; Walsh et al., 2005) are consistent with the recent changes in Arctic surface air temperatures.

Furthermore, past environmental reports highlighted that glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes are prematurely breaking apart, and trees are either flowering or die sooner.

This heavily forested area, dotted with rivers and lakes, is being attacked by horrific enemies.

«This Homeland Security grant is extremely helpful in enhancing security of the international border along the Niagara River and Lake Erie.

It will boost annual hydroelectric power production by $ 5.3 million, and annual recreational activity along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario by $ 9.1 million.

Even take a day to explore the nearby rivers and lakes fishing big mouth, striper, bass and crawfish or scuba diving for a full underwater experience!

He was a beacon of hope for restoring the Buffalo and Niagara rivers and Lake Erie.

Groups like the Sierra Club have lambasted the agency's new rules on power - plant cooling towers — which kill billions of fish nationwide by sucking up water from rivers and lakes — calling them much too flimsy.

Handsomely decorated with detailed dark woods and luxurious fabrics, our three prominent Presidential downtown chicago hotel rooms and suites are 2,408 sq ft.. These three unique suites boast an octagonal living area, the sides of which are fitted with windows overlooking the city, the Chicago River and Lake Michigan for the best views in the city.

«Plan 2014 is a pragmatic solution for the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario,» Owens said.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — National environmental groups issued a report today that says coal - fired power plants, including some in Alabama, are polluting rivers and lakes with toxins found in ash and sludge.

Some freshwater systems exist wholly within the Arctic but many others are fed by river and lake systems further south.

Fancy salts are harvested from oceans and salty rivers and lakes around the world.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Hunters in the Snow (1565) depicts frozen rivers and lakes during the Little Ice Age.

FamilyFarmed interview Will about his business» origins, why food businesses need contract manufacturers, the biggest supply chain challenges... and why he made the highest bid for a CEO yacht cruise on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan that was a silent auction prize at last April's Frontera 30th Anniversary Celebration.

Baker is part of the Baton Rouge geographical area, which borders the Mississippi River, and there are many smaller inland rivers and lakes nearby.

The series, which has won both the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger and the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis awards, is set in Algonquin Bay - a thinly disguised version of the city of North Bay, Ontario (about 200 miles from Toronto on the Ottawa River and Lake Lake Nipissing).

Premier River Fishing Guides on Vancouver Island Vancouver Island offers the chance at many different fish species at different times of the year in local rivers and lakes.

Summertime offers festivals, river and lake swimming, crowds, and outdoor cafes, while winter has many cozy — gemutlich — cafes, and neighborhood clubs and restaurants.

They prefer to nest in tall trees along river and lake shorelines.

Here you find mountains akin to the dramatic landscapes of New Zealand, combined with the largest glacial ice fields in South America, slowly melting to feed into a vast network of turquoise rivers and lakes, with water so pure you can drink it!

«British Columbians don't want to see rivers and lakes killed, fisheries destroyed or towns and farmland contaminated,» said Fleming.

Many large rivers and lakes in Western Canada were traversed by steamships, from the 1860s, and in some cases, into the mid-20th century...

The researchers also determined that to achieve the best water quality in the Los Angeles River watershed, which covers 824 square miles and is the largest watershed in Los Angeles County, it could take 138,000 vegetated swales (shallow, sloped channels of vegetation) and 83,000 dry ponds (low - lying, depressed areas near rivers and lakes that typically are used to help clean stormwater).

Meanwhile, on hazy Titan, Huygens and Cassini found an Earth - like landscape of rivers and lakes filled with liquid methane — the only liquid bodies found on the surface of moon or planet in the solar system, except Earth.

Also glaciers sliding on under - ice rivers and lakes don't lend themselves to single time constants for the whole Earth.

Along with real issues like river and lake pollution, there had been Paul Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb, published in 1968; the Club of Rome's book The Limits to Growth, in 1972; and a succession of other doomsday scenarios in the popular press.

Last month the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released an extensive report proposing technology - based solutions that could be installed at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Ill. — one of the last physical barriers between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan.

A volcanic laboratory Volcanoes were first noted on Io in 1979, and subsequent studies by the Galileo spacecraft, which first flew by Io in 1996, and ground - based telescopes show that eruptions and lava fountains occur constantly, creating rivers and lakes of lava.

Water quality is concerned with the the chemistry of water in rivers and lakes right from pollutants and natural resolutes.

Days 91 to 98 Brazil • Bonito — swim & snorkel in crystal clear river and lakes as well as hike into lush forests to look for monkeys, alligators & anaconda.

While river and lake freshwater fishing we are professionally equipped with a 13 foot self - baling river raft with all the safety features.

The Settlers Inn is ideally located for enjoying a broad range of activities and things to see and do in the Pocono Mountains region from hiking and mountain biking to water sports on the Lackawaxen River and Lake Wallenpaupack.

The Ledges Hotel is ideally located for enjoying a broad range of activities and things to see and do in the Pocono Mountains region from hiking and mountain biking to water sports on the Lackawaxen River and Lake Wallenpaupack.

Angelei's grassroots efforts are explored as she tries to mitigate the impact of the Gibe III dam in Ethiopia on the indigenous people who have relied on the Omo River and Lake Turkana as their vital source of water and food for centuries.

2012 Goldman Prize recipient Ikal Angelei recently shared a link to a stirring video posted on the Yale e360 blog about the struggle between nomadic herdsman in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya - whose survival depends on access to the Omo River and Lake Turkana.