Sentences with phrase «square kilometers in»

The iceberg is well over 100 square kilometers in size - about 50 square miles, or 30,000 acres.

Total said that the slick was just 4.8 square kilometers in size.

These values compare to observed values of 4.3 million square kilometers in 2007, 4.6 million square kilometers in 2011, 3.6 million square kilometers in 2012 and 5.3 million square kilometers in 2014.

Typically, Poyang lake covers 3,500 square kilometers in eastern China, but «last month only 200 square kilometers were underwater,» leaving fishermen bereft and freighters unable to cross, according to a Le Monde story The Guardian ran this week:

With the green revolution technology of chemical inputs, runoff from agriculture farms entering oceans and creating dead zones — zero oxygen — like thousands of square kilometers in Gulf of Mexico.

The median outlook value is up from 4.1 million square kilometers in 2013.

«A sea level rise of up to 0.5 meters by 2100 may already be unavoidable even in a scenario of deep emissions cuts — we estimate that this could inundate 2000 square kilometers in Bangladesh, which is 1.6 percent of the country and would affect 2.5 million people.

This value compares to the previous low value in 2007 at 4.3 million square kilometers and 4.6 million square kilometers in 2011.

Annual snow cover extent (SCE) over Northern Hemisphere lands averaged 25.8 million square kilometers in 2017.

The June Outlook for arctic sea ice in September 2010 shows reasonable arguments for either a modest increase or decrease in September 2010 sea ice extent compared to the last two years (5.4 million square kilometers in 2009 and 4.7 million square kilometers in 2008).

Does this suggest a new level of reduced summer ice extent persisting at around 5.0 million square kilometers, relative to a value of 6.0 million square kilometers in the early 2000s?

Spanning 11,000 square kilometers in area, the island is home to several species of endangered plants and animals, as well as tribes of Mangyan people who have lived sustainably from the island's natural resources for generations.

According to this reconstruction, the minimum extent during that timeframe (9.8 million square kilometers in 1940) was higher than it has been at any time since 1979.

In the summer of 2012, Arctic sea ice has broken the previous record for minimum extent (set in 2007), fallen below 4 million square kilometers, and, as of September 17, dropped below 3.5 million square kilometers in extent.

Regenerative farming techniques, such as nutrient management, manure and sludge application, no - till agriculture, use of cover crops, and crop rotations, can rehabilitate degraded or desertified soils, which span a massive 3.57 million square kilometers in China, and correspondingly increase soil carbon sequestration.

Huge Open World — The maps in Novus Inceptio are immense, and fully explorable, being as large as 576 square kilometers in size!

Felicite Island is a tiny granite gem, about three square kilometers in size, situated like a glimmering grey pearl in the middle of the Seychelles island chain.

The overall range has also increased from 3.4 to 6.0 million square kilometers, compared to 3.4 to 5.23 million square kilometers in June 2016.

The overall width of the distribution of Outlooks has increased compared to last year: the interquartile spread across all types of contributions is 0.64 million square kilometers compared to 0.53 million square kilometers in 2016.

But snow leopard habitat is so large, hundreds of square kilometers in fact, that Volodya needs help to survey the region so I joined the team to do this with him this year.

But their large populations, occupying at times hundreds of square kilometers in the oceans, combined with a high sinking speed, can deliver large carbon quantities to the seabed.

For example, the grey - winged cotinga is currently listed as «vulnerable» with a habitable range of some 3300 square kilometers in the forested mountains northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The lake has been reduced from approximately 25,000 square kilometers in 1963 to only 1,350 square kilometers today.

Strapping a laser altimeter — a device used to measure vertical height — to the belly of an airplane, the team flew over 67 glaciers covering 90,000 square kilometers in the Alaskan mountains.

Ten European species, including five on Sardinia in Italy, each live in an area smaller than 5000 square kilometers, and a species named Calotriton arnoldi makes its home in less than 10 square kilometers in a Spanish nature park.

They were able to distinguish areas 30 meters by 30 meters and determined that selective logging ranged from 12,000 square kilometers to nearly 20,000 square kilometers in some states.

Indeed, Newman notes, «it will certainly exceed 25 million square kilometers in size.»

The IUCN, using data from British - based environmental group Earthsight, found that palm oil already covers 1,000 square kilometers of Central Africa and that 1 million square kilometers in the region are suitable for the crop.

In a study published today in the journal Nature, University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Clark L. Erickson < reports that a network of low, zigzag structures of raised earth and ponds covering hundreds of square kilometers in Baures represents a pre-Columbian fishery.

Losses began to get greater each summer thereafter, apparently due to global warming, dropping to about five million square kilometers in 2007.

Stressed trees no longer store as much CO2 The U.K. - Brazil research team that produced the new study used satellite measurements of dry season rainfall to estimate the magnitude of the two droughts over a study area of 5.3 million square kilometers in the southwest Amazon.

The good news is that Brazil has in recent years begun to restrain such deforestation: annual rates fell from 28,000 square kilometers in 2004 to less than 7,000 in 2011.

According to him, the prediction has sadly become reality as the lake which covers over 25,000 square kilometers in 1925 have shrunk to 2,500 square kilometers.

There is only one - fifth of a person per square kilometer in Northern Territory.

So, although densities «reaching up to 1,580 cats per square kilometer in urban areas» were observed, more than half fell between 132 and 417 cats per square kilometer (or 51 — 161 cats per square mile).

«Local densities can be extremely high,» they write, «reaching up to 1,580 cats per square kilometer in urban areas.»

Even with the increase in its overall population, Belize remained one of the least densely populated countries in the Americas, averaging 8.5 persons per square kilometer in 1991.

We know that the heavily jungled areas of New Guinea supported and still support population densities of 1 person per square kilometer in the most difficult environments of the lowlands and 20 people per square mile in the less difficult highlands.

Mayan population densities are reported to have reached 1,295 to 1,813 people per square kilometer in the countryside and 4,662 to 6,734 people per square mile in the cities.

Not exact matches

A lawsuit filed Monday claims the Trump administration ignored policies meant to protect the greater sage grouse when the government sold oil and gas leases across 475 square miles (1,230 square kilometers) in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.

Western Watersheds Project and Center for Biological Diversity also want to block upcoming sales covering 1,800 square miles (4,662 square kilometers) in those four states plus Idaho.

The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court seeks to reverse lease sales across 475 square miles (1,230 square kilometers) in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

For example, the report pointed out the population densities in Australia and Canada are 3.1 and 3.9 people per square kilometer.

The most populous nation on earth instated the ban in 2000 for fear of corrupting its youth, but will now allow for distribution of consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone — a 29 - square - kilometer testing ground for new economic reforms established last year.

These are two of four deposits that the Company controls and is actively exploring within the 100 % - owned, 141 - square - kilometer Sterling Gold Project in Nye County, Nevada.

Novo owns the approximately 10 square kilometer Beatons Creek Tenements in Western Australia and has the right to earn a 70 % interest in the approximately 1,800 square kilometer Pilbara Paleoplacer Gold Project (includes the Beatons Creek and Marble Bar paleoplacer gold projects) in Western Australia from the Creasy Group.

MC: Pure Gold Mining Inc. (PGM: TSX.V; Not Rated) owns a land package, the Madsen gold project, comprising approximately 45 square kilometers of ground within the Red Lake district in northwestern Ontario, making it the third largest landowner in the area.

The Company's other material exploration project is the property comprising a 47.3 square kilometers licence area in eastern Kazakhstan (the Karchiga Project), which is part of the Rudny Altai polymetallic belt.

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