Sentences with phrase «river systems in»

There are a lot of river systems in the world.

Preliminary results of an analysis of rising temperature effects on three major river systems in the western United States — the Columbia, the Sacramento, and the Colorado — indicate that the winter snow pack in the mountains feeding them will be dramatically reduced and that winter rainfall and flooding will increase.

Whether it's monitoring the health of the Mesoamerican Reef and marine life to safeguarding the jungle and the creatures that dwell in it, mapping the network of underground river systems in the Riviera Maya and community products and tourism in Mayan villages, Amigos de Sian Ka'an is involved in protecting the unique, fragile and incredibly rich mosaic of ecosystems with which the state of Quintana Roo is blessed.

The Brunswick River is one of the most beautiful river systems in New South Wales.

The Santa Clara River is 83 miles (134 km) long, [5] and is one of the most dynamic river systems in southern California.

[In Tulum] we have among the largest underground river systems in the world, so my advice for people who want to come and buy land for development: You can not do it on the cost of the beauty of this place.»

We've now found evidence of extensive river systems in the area which supports the idea that Mars was warm and wet, providing a more favourable environment for life than a cold, dry planet,» explained lead author, Joel Davis (UCL Earth Sciences).

«It really does scare the daylights out of you,» says Lee E. Harding of SciWrite Environmental Sciences in Coquitlam, Canada, who spotted the animals splashing and swimming in several river systems in Borneo in 2011.

Moore et al. tested this hypothesis in one of the few remaining free - flowing river systems in North America, the Fraser River watershed.

It lived along river systems in northern Africa during the middle of the Cretaceous period, about 100 million years ago.

The researchers used source - tracking markers, a novel method Rose calls «CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) for water,» to sample 64 river systems in Michigan for E. coli and the human fecal bacteria B - theta.

Despite its common name, that species (Inia geoffrensis) also inhabits several other river systems in northern South America, and its evolutionary origins are as murky as those sediment - laden waters.

And when it comes to energy, Brookfield owns 218 hydroelectric plants on 82 river systems in North and South America.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office funded monitoring activities to evaluate the short - term (annual) environmental response of selected watering actions in the Macquarie river system in 2014 - 15 and 2016 - 17.

This research shows how ancient urban centres didn't necessarily need an active, flowing river system in order to thrive.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

Experience the largest underground river system in the world with a sea - snorkeling adventure.

Caving and Spelunking: There are hundreds of caves in the country but the most popular is the underground cave and river system in Puerto Princesa.

After that, ride a rubber tube down the Bugang River, the cleanest river system in the country, in Pandan.

The Bluemask Darter (Etheostoma akatulo) is a rare, federally endangered, fish found only in the Caney Fork River system in the Cumberland River drainage of Tennessee.

Projected evolution of California's San Francisco Bay - Delta - River system in a century of climate change

And The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area does not release water back into the river system in the manner you imply.

The huge Ob river system in Russia for example has seen a 40 % increase in water flows in recent years due to Permafrost Melt.

Not exact matches

He also said that the tailings, which are moved from the mine in a high - lying area by a river system to a cordoned - off area in lowlands, were benign.

This animated map shows the scale of the Mississippi River and its drainage system in perspective.

«We are at a point where [Trump] has a real shot at the presidency, despite having blown up a political party, undermined confidence in our electoral system, declared open season on journalists, and unleashed a river of racism and misogyny.

Both Humber River and Mackenzie Health have adopted Ambiant as their figurative brains and central nervous systems; new customers in British Columbia and Alberta are also about to come on board, according to ThoughtWire co-founder and chief executive Mike Monteith.

• 6 River Systems, a Waltham, Mass. - based e-commerce fulfillment automation firm, raised $ 25 million in Series B funding.

The area is being monitored by cameras, helicopters and officers posted on rooftops, stationed in the subway system and on vessels patrolling the Hudson River.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Thus the system evolved in complex ways, as converts kept one foot anchored on the (seemingly) stable rock of the Bible and the other immersed in the rushing, turbulent river of current events.

In either case a merely human love is a closed system, like a river with no outlet to the sea.

Indeed, the river almost always flows in the opposite direction: our informal, intuitive notions of cardinality, time, space, and causality in fact drive the evolution of abstractions such as functions, geometric spaces, real numbers, and coordinate systems.

Giant pumps can now reverse the flow of rivers and move water uphill to arid land farms that have become key cogs in our nation's not - so - local industrial food system.

For then it would be open to question whether one is dealing with a concept which is possible but which can correspond to no possible reality, or rather with the concept of something truly real.9 In contrast to these different possible dialectical ways in which the initial concept of a universal becoming can be used, Whitehead's categoreal system aims to describe it unmistakably as the fundamental truth: «The ancient doctrine that «no one crosses the same river twice,» is extendeIn contrast to these different possible dialectical ways in which the initial concept of a universal becoming can be used, Whitehead's categoreal system aims to describe it unmistakably as the fundamental truth: «The ancient doctrine that «no one crosses the same river twice,» is extendein which the initial concept of a universal becoming can be used, Whitehead's categoreal system aims to describe it unmistakably as the fundamental truth: «The ancient doctrine that «no one crosses the same river twice,» is extended.

And Wes Jackson, the Kansas agronomist, makes the same point in connection with physical systems — particularly the prairie soils continuing to bleed brown into the Mississippi and every other river system that drains farmland.

Colligen Creek is located in the Edward - Wakool river system, southern New South Wales.

The environmental water is being managed in a way that improves the connectivity of rivers of the southern Murray — Darling Basin, including those in the Goulburn, lower Darling, Campaspe, Murrumbidgee and Murray systems.

The full report of the early results is available at Monitoring of ecosystem responses to the delivery of environmental water in the Edward - Wakool river system 2011 - 12 - Report 1.

Monitoring results have shown that river red gum and black box trees surrounding the creek system have increased canopy cover and fresh growth, while water plants including rushes and sedges are also growing in abundance.

This coordinated effort enables the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder to manage water in the national interest by improving the connectivity between the highly variable natural systems of the Murray - Darling Basin's rivers, floodplains and wetlands.

Issues of animal health and welfare in the proposed intensive farm rearing systems have also been raised, along with the environmental risks to the Bass River catchment.

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Specifically, Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat along the length of the River Murray to improve the condition and promote the migration of native fish species; support waterbird habitat and breeding events; and, mobilise and export salts from the River Murray system.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, contributed to whole - of - system watering in the River Murray, providing benefits along the length of the River Murray in 2016 - 17 and contributing to flows and targeting outcomes from Hume Dam through to the Coorong.

This action supported the flushing of salt and nutrients from the Murray - Darling river system and helped to manage salinity levels in the Lower Lakes and Coorong.

Approximately 350 ML of environmental water was returned to the River Murray in mid-November to promote the movement of native fish from the Lakes system to the River.

High rainfall conditions and inflows to the Menindee Lakes during winter - spring 2016 provided the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder with an opportunity to deliver environmental water to support native fish populations in the Lower Darling as well as the longer - term health of the river system.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder contributed to a whole of system watering in the River Murray, primarily through winter - spring 2015 - 16.

This action will be important for promoting weir pool manipulation elsewhere in the Murray River system.