Sentences with phrase «square kilometers off»

If sea level rises more slowly and land sinks less, the structures would build up 1000 square kilometers off the present coast.

Not exact matches

The facility is spread over an area of 75 kilometers squared off the east coast of England.

Before the first reintroduction, in 2000 on a 989 - square - kilometer island off Estonia called Hiiumaa, hunters and a trapper killed the island's entire American mink population, the legacy of a defunct fur farm.

«So you see something in this one 4,000 - square - kilometer basin off the northeast coast of Venezuela, but you see similar changes in the Arabian Sea and in the tropical Pacific, and you can link it all back to changes seen in an ice sheet in Greenland.

This would have subjected those lease sales, such as the sale of oil and gas leases covering nearly 46,000 square miles (120, 000 square kilometers) in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska, to additional regulatory oversight, he added.

Lightning is blamed for setting off the fires, including a massive blaze that has destroyed around 42 square miles (110 square kilometers) of forestland, along with 16 homes, and has threatened the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, America's oldest Buddhist monastery in the Big Sur region of California.

Over protests from conservation and citizen groups, on August 14 the BLM auctioned off energy leases for all of the remaining public land on the Roan encompassing 54,631 acres (221 square kilometers).

Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed designating a vast area — more than 906,000 square kilometers — off Alaska as protected habitat for the seals.

In particular, vast expanses of continuous coral cover, extending for tens of square kilometers, exist in many sites in the «Au'au channel off the southwest side of Maui.

A 100 - meter - wide, kilometers - long rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf could soon break off a 5,000 - square - kilometer chunk of ice into the ocean, scientists warn.

Gili Trawangan, a 15 - square kilometer island off Lombok, has pristine beaches, stunning underwater b...

PREMIUM Gili Trawangan, a 15 - square kilometer island off Lombok, has pristine beaches, stunning underwater beauty, as well as being the perfect distance from crowded cities, thus making any visitor feel liberated instead of marooned.

The meters thick ice covering millions of square kilometers has enough thermal inertia to shrug off warm weather (at least it has for hundreds of thousands of years), but not resist a warming climate.

Pat, you may be off by 1 million square kilometers or 2.

West Virginia - based SkyTruth says satellite photos from the day of the spill off southern Kuwait show it spread over a distance covering 131 square kilometers (50.5 square miles).

«The Guardian is only off by 7.675 million square kilometers... close enough for journo work I suppose», says Watts.

In particular, they say that natural chemical reactions under 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) of ocean floor off California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia could lock in as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 production