Sentences with phrase «square kilometers over»

In the city of Rio de Janeiro, the project is treating about 150 square kilometers over the course of two years and aims to protect 2.5 million city - dwellers for years to come.

Not exact matches

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

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.

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

«To meet the 2005 U.S. electricity demand of about 4 million megawatt - hours with around - the - clock wind would have required wind farms covering over 780,000 square kilometers,» Ausubel notes.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

A World Bank study last year found that the removal of the typical coastal wetland has added about 2,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per square kilometer per year to the atmosphere over 50 years (ClimateWire, April 12, 2011).

The Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina finds those particles using a collection of 1,600 tubs of ultrapure water arranged over 3,000 square kilometers.

It's not a new phenomenon; this «thumb» of Antarctica, which juts out into the stormy Southern Ocean, has lost more than 28,000 square kilometers of floating ice — almost as large as Massachusetts — over the past half - century.

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.

But if proposed protections are put in place, the study projects a much smaller area of forest would be lost — 41,650 square kilometers, over 113,000 square kilometers less than under the agricultural development scenario.

With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

By 2050, the nation could lose over 155,480 square kilometers of forest — an area bigger than the state of Georgia.

In addition to rivers, the researchers» simulations predict massive lagoons and wetlands in northeast Libya, some of which span over 70,000 - square kilometers.

Satellites from NASA and other agencies have been tracking sea ice changes since 1979, and the data show that Arctic sea ice has been shrinking at an average rate of about 20,500 square miles (53,100 square kilometers) per year over the 1979 - 2015 period.

Much of the 4200 - square - kilometer zone was evacuated after the nuclear plant's unit 4 reactor exploded in 1986, sending a radioactive plume over Europe.

The Indian scientists have recorded 14 troops «of a fairly large population» spread over 1200 square kilometers.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

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).

Its 668,000 square kilometers sprawl over state and international borders between British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Nevada.

The 120 - telescope project will have two parts: a southern array with 100 instruments distributed over 10 square kilometers and a northern array with 20 instruments spread over 1 square kilometer.

Two years ago, Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf collapsed over the course of 35 days; 3,250 square kilometers of shelf area — an area larger than that of Rhode Island — disintegrated.

In the last two years alone, over 2.6 million square kilometers have been added to the portion of the global ocean covered by MPAs, bringing the total to over 14.9 million square kilometers.

The expansion will also make TA almost as big as its rival, the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, which has 1600 particle detectors of a different design spread over 3000 square kilometers.

But it also overwrote parts of the cratering record up to 500 kilometers away from the basin, reducing crater counts over an area of roughly three million square kilometers, or about 8 percent of the lunar surface.

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.

Covering approximately 3.3 million square kilometers (just over 2 million square miles), these areas were sampled using research vessel bottom trawl surveys that collected 60,394 samples between 1968 and 2011.

The data showed spikes in temperature of several hundred degrees Fahrenheit in spots ranging in size from 1 square kilometer to over 200 kilometers.

Over a 21 - year period, from 1990 to 2011, a team of scientists tracked 180 female bears and their cubs in a 13,000 - square - kilometer area of boreal forest in south - central Sweden.

It has an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (about a quarter of the U.S. landmass) and an average elevation of over 4,500 meters.

Palau's waters are home to over 1,000 species of tropical fish, and their new national marine sanctuary will cover approximately 600,000 square kilometers, an area about the size of France or Texas.

The grizzlies now roam over 65,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, with only about a fifth of the population inside the national park at its core.

In addition to providing the first comprehensive assessment of songbird occupancy over a 40,000 square kilometer region of northern California, they were able to identify the precise dates of peak vocal activity for eight songbird species, and their work shows that this will be a feasible method to track advances in the timing of vocal activity over the coming decades.

Using a numerical model developed by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the German Weather Service, the team created two simulations of convectional organization over a 312,000 - square - kilometer grid with 1 - kilometer spacing.

Over the course of the week, the panel interviewed various members of the community including representatives from the three Task Forces, Regional Nodes, Project leaders, the National research Foundation, OAD Steering Committee, IAU Executive Committee, the South African Astronomical Observatory, the Square Kilometer Array, Department of Science and Technology (South Africa), etc..

Over 500,000 Indigenous Peoples live in the Arctic spanning three continents, eight countries and 30 million square kilometers.

That's twice the normal release of these gases over the entire 2,590 square - kilometer (1,000 square - mile) Los Angeles Basin.

In this image released by NASA, the hole appears as a giant blue blob which spreads over about 11 million square miles (28.3 milion square kilometers).

The highest - energy cosmic rays slam into the atmosphere with an energy of 1020 eV, creating a cascade of secondary particles that spread over many square kilometers.

That is over 20,000 square kilometers of unspoiled African nature.

Eaglereach is a nature - based resort with over 4 square kilometers (1000 acres) of natural adventureland featuring an amazing variety of fauna and flora.

For several days, the volcano spewed tons of rocks and lava over 15 square kilometers of land.

The residential remains of the city cover some eight square miles (20 square kilometers), and its extensive system of canals and reservoirs once served a population of over 50,000 Mayans.

The hotel's private reserve is over a square kilometer and contains waterfalls, some of which are up to 260 feet (80 m) in height.

The lake expands over 124 square kilometers.

Despite the size of the Atoll, it encompasses only 250 islands over a lagoon area covering 2,800 square kilometers, resulting in the sparsest distribution of individual islands in the country.

Encompassing over 455 square kilometers (176 square miles) of the Indian Ocean, the 100 or so tiny islands boast some of the world's best spas, beaches, and resorts, making it the ideal destination for a rejuvenating retreat from reality.

Eaglereach is a nature - based resort with over 4 square kilometers (1000 acres) of natural adventureland featuring an amazing variety of fauna and

The eruptions continued unabated for several days, burying over 15 square kilometers with rocks, lava and ash.

When it was finally over, the eruptions had killed 87 people and buried 3 small villages — Tabacón, Pueblo Nuevo and San Luís — and affected more than 232 square kilometers of land.