Sentences with phrase «sq km»

The amount of heat required to melt 2.2 M sq km of ice with a thickness of 1.5 - 2.0 meters is huge.

It is still about 10 M sq km less than the previous minimum on a daily basis.

Today it is 1 million sq km less than normal, but next month, or next season it might be quite different.

Now, just 20 km of ice is keeping the 5,000 sq km piece from floating away.

This is the second lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, 70,000 sq km larger than the record set in 2017.

In the hot latitudes covering just 250,000 sq km with solar panels could produce enough electricity for the entire world.

I suppose the most prominent feature of that graph is the trend that shows over a million sq km of ice lost, mostly in the last 15 years.

And the two Tuni - Condoriri glaciers that provide water for El Alto and La Paz lost 39 % of their area between 1983 and 2006 — at a rate of 0.24 sq km per year.»

Sea ice fell to 2.11 m sq km on 3 March.

Currently there is 700k in the Beaufort region, 700k in the Chukchi region, and 800k in the E. Siberian region, for a total of 2.2 M sq km at risk.

The SMP gold project covers a 238 sq km area in the Lupa Goldfield of southwest Tanzania and is adjacent to the New Luika gold mine, operated by Shanta Gold Limited.

Will there be any coastline left that hasn't been industrialized, how many sq kms under wind farms and on and on.

It is now possible for tourists to visit Pripyat and other surrounding villages within the 2,600 sq km exclusion zone for short periods of time as the isotopes released in 1986 have since decayed.

As part of the deal, the Lee family will buy Acton's Barkly Downs property, a 9200 sq km flagship holding that Acton bought in 2004 and had previously been held by Stanbroke Pastoral and King Ranch.

Covering an area larger than the United Kingdom, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system, made up of more than 2,900 coral reefs and 900 islands scattered over 344,400 sq km off the coast of Queensland in north - east Australia.

Part of Strathcona park, Forbidden Plateau is a scenic 250 sq km alpine plateau of open meadows and lush forest dotted with lakes and framed by majestic mountains.

Canada's national parks are spectacular, from the dinky 15 sq km Georgian Bay Islands National Park to Alberta's vast Wood Buffalo NP, which is the size of Denmark.

The Kuna refuse to sell or lease any land to outside developers, and just a handful of locally - owned, rustic lodges are dotted throughout the 3,000 sq km making up Kuna Yala.

The beauty and unique diversity of this 14,500 sq km wilderness has been recognised worldwide in being awarded the status of a World Biosphere Reserve by Unesco.

Prior to that (back in 2011), the SIA wobbled its way positive and negative with a long - term trend upward of 15,000 sq km pa.

The initiative — which will cover about 22,000 sq km spread across Sikkim; northern parts of West Bengal, including Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri; Nepal and western Bhutan — is [continue reading...]

And on 13 February the total area of frozen ocean in the two hemispheres was at its lowest: 16.21 million square kilometres, which is about 2m sq km less than the average global minimum for 1981 to 2010.

However when ice returns with 11 m sq km growth, which has not been recorded in the post 1979 satellite period, the faithwarmers say it doesn't matter.

A thread of just 20 km of ice is now preventing the 5,000 sq km mass from floating away, following the sudden expansion last month of a rift that has been steadily growing for more than a decade.

Malaysia's forest loss was partly offset by a 25,978 sq km gain in vegetation cover resulting from natural recovery, reforestation, and establishment of industrial timber and oil palm plantations.

The team found that between 1999 and 2008 the mass of the glaciers in this 5,615 sq km region of the Karakoram increased marginally, although there was wide variations between individual glaciers.

Two years later, the rift became complete and the 580 sq km iceberg drifted free of the shelf.

The US National Snow and Ice Data Center states there has been a slight gain in Antarctic sea - ice cover of 0.9 per cent since 1979, the equivalent of about 100,000 sq km per decade.

Implementing REDD across all remaining forest landscapes outside protected areas, on the other hand, would save 7824 sq km of forest, with «maximum benefit for orangutan conservation».

The Chitwan National Park is a vast diverse landscape nearly 950 sq km in size.

It is now safe to confirm that the minimum Arctic sea ice extent has now been passed this year, with an area of 4.083 million sq km on 7th September.

Manhattan is 59 sq km which is 107 times as large.