Sentences with phrase «southwestern u.s.»

Limitations include generalization of results which is limited to a sample of a Latino families residing in a southwestern U.S. metropolitan area, small sample size, no - treatment control group, and lack of follow - up.

Latin name: Pinus edulis Burned sections of pinyon pine are commonly found in archaeological sites in the southwestern U.S..

In winter Red - naped Sapsuckers disperse to lower - elevation groves in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico.

(02/12/2008) There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern U.S., will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed, a new study finds.

Lo, M. - H., and J. S. Famiglietti, 2013: Irrigation in California's Central Valley strengthens the southwestern U.S. water cycle.

In general, the northern part of the U.S. is projected to see more winter and spring precipitation, while the southwestern U.S. is projected to experience less precipitation in the spring.

Severe long - term droughts or «megadroughts» caused by climate change could affect southwestern U.S. states, a new study found.

«For the southwestern U.S., I'm not optimistic about avoiding real megadroughts,» said Toby Ault, Cornell assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and lead author of the paper.

The disappearance of this sensitive ecosystem would jeopardize native cultures, fisheries and wildlife throughout the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico.

Artist Statement «Native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, the Mexican gray wolf is an extremely endangered species, with only about 100 living in the wild today.»

Watch the southwestern U.S.'s deserts bloom, or spot the new lambs just born across the British Isles.

Even more important to keep dry would be the desert hairy scorpion (Hadrurus spp.), a native of the southwestern U.S. I have seen tame desert hairies; I haven't tamed one myself.

The 11 project schools were from eight different school districts spread across a rural area in the southeastern U.S.; an eastern city; two small towns in the Midwest; a large city in the Midwest; and a large city in the southwestern U.S..

Today, 40,000 acres of desert land in the southwestern U.S. is used to cultivate jojoba plants for their oil.

Dr. Kevin Conway, AgriLife Research wildlife and fisheries scientist, College Station, and Daemin Kim, a former graduate student of Conway's now at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, collaborated on the paper «Redescription of the Texas shiner Notropis amabilis from the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico with the reinstatement of N. megalops.»

«So we should probably be using [these economic and climate] models to examine the impact of future climate change on various migrant - employing sectors of the southwestern U.S. economy.»

«Through a partnership with the University of Texas at Tyler and New Mexico State University, we are now expanding this study to many more sources from the eastern, southern, and southwestern U.S..

As a result, pink bollworm has been all but eradicated in the southwestern U.S. Suppression of this pest with Bt cotton is the cornerstone of an integrated pest management program that has allowed Arizona cotton growers to reduce broad spectrum insecticide use by 80 percent, saving them over $ 10 million annually.

S. cordicitum and the varieties that are newly elevated to species belong to section Androceras, which is a group of weedy Solanum plants native to the central and southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

The new findings show that a warm Atlantic and a relatively cold Pacific enhance the risk for drought and wildfire in the southwestern U.S.

A combination of these three processes explains the recent southwestern U.S. drought event for 2011 - 2014.»

The jaguar once ranged from northern Argentina to the southwestern U.S. but since 1900 it has lost more than half of its range.

Australia's Millennium Drought is a wake - up call for residents of the drought - plagued southwestern U.S. and for all of us.

Journalist Peter Heller's debut novel, The Dog Stars, follows Hig, a Cessna pilot who flies the lonely skies of the southwestern U.S. after a flu pandemic kills 99 percent of the world's population.

The southwestern U.S. bears some resemblance to parts of Australia before the drought.

The heaviest losses are taking place in five regions, according to a new report sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages: Oklahoma and the southwestern U.S., central South America, eastern Siberia, northern Australia and the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

He explained that in the southwestern U.S., scientists from the EPA, academia, industry and the USDA worked with growers to craft and implement an effective refuge strategy.

In the southwestern U.S., farmers collaborated with academia, industry, EPA scientists, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement an effective refuge strategy.

The detailed models produced using the MT imaging data of the southwestern U.S. more accurately portrayed surface structures at a scale of less than 100 kilometers, Liu said, which is important because features like volcanoes and faults are localized phenomena that are harder to predict using larger - scale models.

The new study focused on two areas that are now losing trees: western North America, which is suffering from drought, heat and beetle infestations that span from the southwestern U.S. to Alaska, and the Amazon rainforest, which has been subject to decades of intense human development.

«Recent droughts have resulted in widespread pinyon pine mortality throughout much of the southwestern U.S.,» said Miranda Redmond, CSU assistant professor and lead author of the study.

On a sunny Saturday, he surveyed the site with Johnson, a Dutchess County educator, photographer, and water consultant who has researched rock formations in Peru, Chile, and the southwestern U.S.

In the late 80's Bobby and I spent a week with some friends on a houseboat on Lake Powell, a lake on the Colorado River in the southwestern U.S..

Not exact matches

Trump made numerous anti-immigration promises during his campaign, ranging from building a massive wall across the U.S.'s southwestern border to ending federal funding for «sanctuary cities» that are friendly to undocumented immigrants.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP)-- The U.S. government has fined Enbridge Inc. more than $ 1.8 million after accusing the Canadian oil transport company of missing deadlines for pipeline inspections following a gigantic oil spill in southwestern Michigan.

Located on the southwestern edge of the U.S. Corn Belt, LifeLine Foods LLC stands apart from other companies in the corn processing industry because it operates a unique business model that extracts maximum value from the corn kennel to benefit not only the food industry, but the fuel industry, as well.

The greatest drought in the nation's history continued last week to blight the lives of people throughout a vast region in the central and southwestern part of the U.S., bringing withered crops, emaciated cattle, dead or dying trees, waterless streams and the decimation of wildlife.

On Tuesday, District 13, which covers northern Manhattan and the southwestern edge of the Bronx, will host the most competitive U.S. congressional primary in the city, as nine Democratic candidates face off to clinch Rep. Charles Rangel's seat.

Mote said snowpack levels in most of the western U.S. for 2017 - 18 thus far are lower than average — a function of continued warming temperatures and the presence of a La Niña event, which typically results in warmer and drier conditions in most southwestern states.

But beauty won't save the pinyon jay nor will blandness work against its cousin when climate change raises temperatures and alters bird habitats in the southwestern United States, according to research sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Under the plan, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management authorized 23 timber sales around the Umpqua River in southwestern Oregon with the NMFS stamp of approval.

Earlier this week, the New Mexico Game Commission upheld an earlier decision denying the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) permits to release Mexican wolves onto federal land in southwestern New Mexico.

Scientists know that storms with a rotating updraft on their southwestern sides — which are particularly common in the spring on the U.S. southern plains — are associated with the biggest, most severe tornadoes and also produce a lot of large hail.

Soon afterward, the discovery of an even bigger fungus in southwestern Washington was announced by Terry Shaw, then in Colorado with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and Ken Russell, a forest pathologist at Washington State Department of Natural Resources, in 1992.

In the following decades, similar extremophilic microorganisms have also discovered around the globe in some of the harshest terrestrial environments imaginable, from the boiling geysers of the Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. to the highly alkaline, acidic, and toxic waters of the Rio Tinto river in southwestern Spain to the Mono Lake in California, just to name a few.

Conway said Girard described many new species of fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern and central U.S., with most collected during the U.S. and Mexican boundary surveys between 1853 - 1855.

After moving to the U.S., the artist spent a gap year studying for SATs and taking classes on American history and literature before returning to Nigeria to serve a year of National Service — a policy instituted after the Nigerian civil war to promote unity — far from her home in the southwestern part of Nigeria.

«In 1970, two University of Arizona scientists attracted national attention with an ambitious proposal to turn more than 5,000 square miles of the southwestern United States desert into what they called a «national solar power firm» capable of supplying all U.S. electricity needs in the twenty - first century.»

Because it reduces U.S. dependency on fossil fuels to generate electricity, solar thermal power could potentially be a major source of renewable energy for the southwestern United States and sun - belt areas around the world.

Near - to cooler - than - average conditions were present across much of the contiguous U.S., southwestern Canada, Europe, and western and northern Russia.