Sentences with phrase «square kilometers of»

It is 330 square kilometers of land and 5.2 square kilometers of water.

Seychelles announces two new Marine Protected Areas covering 210,000 square kilometers of biodiverse ocean waters.

Ms. FERRIGNO: I think I'll go back 20 years, and in the last 20 years, I would say at least 20,000 square kilometers of ice has been lost, and that's comparable to an area somewhere between the state of Texas and the state of Alaska.

After adjustment, the ensemble mean estimate is 4.60 million square kilometers for September, down from the 5.13 million square kilometers of the first estimate.

In the first, the researchers determined that 325,000 square kilometers of the northwest European shelf's bottom waters are seasonally prone to oxygen deficiency.

Data released by Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE) last November showed that 7,989 square kilometers of Brazilian Amazon rainforest were destroyed between August 2015 and July 2016.

Though it still has to be approved by member states, the agreement would see over 2 million square kilometers of the Ross Sea set aside, with no fishing in over half of it.

Powering the whole United States would take about 12.2 million recycled car batteries, fabricated into 8,634 square kilometers of perovskite solar panels operating under conditions similar to those in Nevada.»

Area of Sea Covered By Slick Much Larger Than Admitted SkyTruth has shared a satellite image (the one above), taken on the 27th, showing that a slick resulting from the Total rig's leak actually covered about 89 square kilometers of ocean.

This couple dedicated themselves to environmental activism and conserved over 8,100 square kilometers of wilderness in Chile and Argentina.

While approximately 1.5 million square kilometers of suitable habitat still remain in Asia -LRB-[9], Figure 1), tigers today are distributed heterogeneously [7], [13] and, except in the Russian Far East, are now restricted to small pockets, mostly in protected areas.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

Spanning more than 10,000 square kilometers of ocean, the crocodiles make their home from India to Australia, Indonesia to China, and have turned up as far north as the Sea of Japan and as far east as the Pacific Islands.

Seismic testing can increase the background noise in the ocean by 100 times, and can blanket over 300,000 square kilometers of ocean — an area larger than the state of Arizona.

Another challenge to food production and land and water conservation is the rising interest in vegetable - based biofuels, which requires the use of hundreds of millions of square kilometers of farmland and cleared rainforests.

Sure, the video's portrayal of the ocean being impassably cluttered with plastic waste may be a bit hyperbolic, but for the ocean life killed by the world's refuse washed at sea, it couldn't be more appropriate.Plastic waste has become so widespread throughout the world's oceans that there are 46 thousand pieces of plastic in every 2.5 square kilometers of ocean surface, according to the United Nations.

Mongabay is highlighting a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which reveals that between 2000 and 2005 over one million square kilometers of forest were chopped down

About 50,000,000 square kilometers of land use changed to farming plus roads, homes and Walmart parking lots could have a little impact:)

Thousands of square kilometers of the world's second - largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, sit on the verge of destruction, according to a new report released today by Earthsight, the London - based non-profit...

Vegetation change in Colombia's moist forest biome Colombia gained nearly 17,000 square kilometers of forest between 2001 and 2010 as forests recovered in mountainous regions in the Andes, reports a...

Please read what you have written, you really think that the Native Americans covered the Whole of the North Americas, 42 million square kilometers of territory without Horses?

D. Patterson — Then remember the New World has more than 42 million square kilometers of territory, and even at the bragain basement population density rates, the Old World would still have had tens of millions of people whenever those populations were not already reduced some 90 % and more by catastrophes such as the New World and Old World diseases.

Brazil's Amazon #deforestation grows 29 % in a year, 7,989 square kilometers of forest cover removed http://xhne.ws/6QxtA

AC osborn — Please read what you have written, you really think that the Native Americans covered the Whole of the North Americas, 42 million square kilometers of territory without Horses?

A C Osborn (09:30:57): Please read what you have written, you really think that the Native Americans covered the Whole of the North Americas, 42 million square kilometers of territory without Horses?

Takayuki Toyama of Avix Inc in Kanagawa, Japan, and Alan Stainer of Middlesex University Business School in London say that blanketing 60,000 square kilometers of desert with reflective sheeting would «be adequate to offset the heat balance and lead to a net cooling without any need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide» according to a statement from Inderscience, publisher of the journal.

The cloud coverage in the Arctic is about 60 percent in the winter so only 40 percent of the 15 million square kilometers of sea ice is reflecting the Sun's radiation.

The cloud coverage in the Antarctic in December, January and February is about 10 percent so 1.8 million square kilometers of the 2 million is effective.

This 7.8 million square kilometers of effective reflective sea ice is about 1.7 percent of the cloud coverage.

Overall, the team concluded, 2,660 square kilometers of the northern delta will be flooded by seawater by 2100 if the current rate of topographical deformation continues.

So carbon neutral means conserving black coal deposits underground and mowing down thousands of square kilometers of forests.

(07/31/2008) Between June 2000 and June 2008, more than 150,000 square kilometers of rainforest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon.

But don't believe that the Brits, Americans, Canadians, Norwegians, and Danes are all so incompetent that they managed to miss some three million square kilometers of ice.

We need to bring deforestation to a halt as rapidly as possible and foster the regeneration of forest on that portion of the region's 600 thousand plus square kilometers of cleared land that is unproductive — more 100 thousand square miles.

The loss of more than 150,000 square kilometers of forest over the past eight years has shown that a business - as - usual approach will not be enough to conserve the bulk of the Amazon.

In the meantime, deforestation continued unabated, with Indonesia and Brazil alone losing some 300,000 square kilometers of forest — an area the size of Italy or the Philippines — since talks in 2001 officially excluded avoided deforestation from the Kyoto Protocol.

To the west, in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, the Thar Desert stretches across 200,000 square kilometers of arid, dusty land.

Sometime in the next ten years, if we «do» nothing at all, one of the simplest ways in the world to make money will be to buy square kilometers of Arizona and New Mexico and West Texas, cover them with solar energy cells hooked into matteries, and linked by ultra-high-voltage transmission lines to cities in cooler, water rich places where people want to live.

For example, relatively small increases in sea temperature (as little as 1 — 2 °C) can cause mass coral bleaching and mortality across hundreds of square kilometers of coral reef (high confidence).

Some of these fires are megafires, like the 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire that consumed 1,039 square kilometers of area on the North Slope.

The dam flooded nearly 3000 square kilometers of forest, making it one of the world's ten largest man - made lakes.

The results of the morphological changes during the 34 year period in the coastal areas of Bangladesh shows net gain of 139 square Kilometers of land counterbalancing the predicted submergence due to RSLR.

The cut in Amazon deforestation effectively spared 86,000 square kilometers of rainforests, an area larger than the state of Maine or equivalent to 14.3 million soccer fields.

Immense flood basalts were accompanied by pyroclastic eruptions and together produced the Siberian Traps, an area of 2 million square kilometers of volcanic rock, which formed suddenly, on the Earth's surface.

The current global network of protected areas is quite extensive, covering 17 million square kilometers of land and 2 million square kilometers of oceans.

A 1.5 megawatt wind turbine is roughly equivalent to planting four square kilometers of forest every year

-LSB-...] we highlighted the statistic that China has up to 3.57 million square kilometers of degraded lands, i.e. lands experiencing «heavy water and soil loss.»

«An «ice - free» Arctic Ocean is often defined as «having less than 1 million square kilometers of sea ice», because it is very difficult to melt the thick ice around the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Sea ice extent also continued its rapid decline with the Japanese Space Agency showing 4,800,000 square kilometers of sea ice extent, about equal to the third lowest measurement set in 2008.

This year set another new record, with ice covering more than 19.5 million square kilometers of ocean around Antarctica by September.