Sentences with phrase «river changing course»

I think you're conceptualizing that we have this nice stable climate system, and that as we kick it out of equilibrium and it transitions to something else, it's not going to go quietly, much like a river changing its course.

But this changed in the 13th century when a combination of major storms led to its main river changing course.

«We can see rivers changing course.

They found that after the Sutlej River changed course, the scar it left in the landscape acted as a topographic low to capture river flow during the monsoon.

The river buried the debris in silt, and after the river changed course, a high water table kept materials from decaying over the millennia.

A version of this review appears in print on October 4, 2013, on Page C10 of the New York edition with the headline: A River Changes Course.

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The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to A River Changes Course (from Cambodia), directed by Kalyanee Mam — Three young Cambodians struggle to overcome the crushing effects of deforestation, overfishing, and overwhelming debt in this devastatingly beautiful story of a country reeling from the tragedies of war and rushing to keep pace with a rapidly expanding world.

19th ANNUAL STELLA ARTOIS TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD Kalyanee Mam, A River Changes Course Jason Osder, Let the Fire Burn Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, Manakamana

Not exact matches

The river, of course, had not changed.

The Mekong River courses over some 2,700 miles of dramatically changing terrain, traverses six Southeast Asian countries from China's Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, supports one of the planet's most productive inland fisheries and continues to reshape a region it has defined for thousands...

YICHANG, China — According to legend, one of China's ancient emperors — Da Yu, or Yu the Great — changed the course of Chinese history by placing a mountain in front of the Yangtze River, forcing it to flow east through the Middle Kingdom (instead of south like the other great rivers that rise in the same Yunnan region of southwest China).

But gravelly rivers coming from the mountains have the ability to resist large, fast floods without permanently changing their banks and altering their courses, according to a new study of more than 186 rivers.

Today's study, published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that a major Himalayan river, the Sutlej River, used to flow along the trace of the Ghaggar - Hakra river but rapidly changed course upstream eight thousand yearsriver, the Sutlej River, used to flow along the trace of the Ghaggar - Hakra river but rapidly changed course upstream eight thousand yearsRiver, used to flow along the trace of the Ghaggar - Hakra river but rapidly changed course upstream eight thousand yearsriver but rapidly changed course upstream eight thousand years ago.

Astronomers believed this gyre was altering the jet stream's course, much in the same way a large rock would change a nearby river's path.

Large loads of sediment can even dam rivers, changing the course of a creek through its valley.

The whale, probably disoriented, swam into the river and could not change its course, continuing well inland.

In Siberia, rivers spilled over drainage divides and changed their courses.

Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who disguised as a mild - mannered security officer for a great metropolitan hospital, fights a never...

His latest nonfiction foray is about no less than what's changed life as we know it these last few decades: that coursing, unseen river called the Internet.

The one thing everyone knows about Texas is the Battle of the Alamo, but most of Texas history occurred before the Alamo, before the Anglo colonists arrived; it was the history of the native peoples who lived there over the course of 14,000 years, some of whom left huge, magnificent cosmological murals in rock shelters along the Pecos River before they moved on as the climate changed and water disappeared.

Changing its course along this stretch from north to west, and then south - west, the river eventually enters Malebo Pool (also known as Stanley Pool), a fifty - mile lake which is flanked by the capital cities of Kinshasa (DRC) and Brazzaville (Republic of Congo).

«Not only did he change the course of the American literary river, but he changed what editors do by becoming their best friends, their money lenders, their marriage counselors, their psychoanalysts... And along the way he began offering them titles.

Secondly is the way the river has changed it's course again.

Raise new cities, cut down forests, lay roads, build bridges and change the course of rivers.

He goes on to expand the possibilities, «If I have the need or desire to move a mountain, add a figure or change the course of a river, I can do so.

We may be able to seed clouds, make desert bloom, change the course of rivers, and pollute the air, but natural forces are of a greater magnitude.

Earthquakes also pose an increased threat as flooding of the delta forces the underlying Earth's crust down, aggravating faults, and tectonic movements have even caused rivers to suddenly and dramatically change course.

In my pervious example, the study of how a river changes it's course over time is much, much easier than determining the course of a leaf thrown into the river.

Analogy: a scientist is trying to predict how a river will change it's course over a century.

Image copyright Dan Shugar / University of Washington Tacoma A team of scientists say a melting glacier in Canada's Yukon has caused a river to completely change course.

According to the race's official website, «The 125 - km course begins and ends on a 4,200 - foot plateau, passes over three mountain summits and includes 17,000 feet of elevation change, as well as a major river crossing at the spectacular Hell's Gate canyon, where the Smoky and Sulphur rivers converge.»