The phrase
"square mile" refers to a unit of area that measures one mile on each side, forming a square shape.
Full definition
The mining method is considered to be very damaging to the environment, as it involves leveling hundreds of
square miles of land, trees and wildlife.
But large eruptions, creating vast lava flows in some cases thousands of
square miles in area, were thought to be rare.
This was 800,000
square miles below the 1981 — 2010 average and five days earlier than average.
This is not to mention the value of the loss of those 12
square miles for other uses.
Although we are searching many,
many square miles, the ocean is very, very large, and you are very small.
Putting a number on this, the current extent is nearly a million
square miles less than that median value.
The catastrophe created a living laboratory, particularly in the 1,100
square miles around the site, known as the exclusion zone.
It also has seven shopping malls in a 25
square mile radius, the most in the one area of the world.
It's a 1.3 million
square miles bigger than last year's size, and is the fourth largest on record since 1991.
Responsibilities include the safety and well being of all 47 department personnel as well as residents in the 36
square mile community in which my department responds.
800
+ square miles of mountains are estimated to be already destroyed.
If you've
flooded square miles of wilderness and built a dam 63 stories tall, it's hard to revise, to amend the system.
And with more people per
square mile there's a higher risk of theft, vandalism and other comprehensive risks.
The ozone hole's height and area are shrinking, reducing its extent by 1.5 million
square miles since 2000 — and not just due to natural variations.
So, she set out to solve the mystery of collecting garbage over an 800
square mile rural area.
The game plans to be released in three acts, the first of which will include a 3.5
square mile open world landscape and promises 30 hours of game play.
In my one
square mile hometown with a total population of 10,000 people, there were a handful of pizza joints.
Now it only goes off if you're in the same room, not just in the
same square mile.
The high cumulative rainfall on top of saturated land, means the storm poses a severe threat to the safety and property across thousands of
square miles in the region.
With dozens of colleges in just a
few square miles, the city is at its most magical in the fall.
Also oversee fire inspections, investigations and building codes for population of 100,000 in a 26
square mile area.
We have a beautiful climate with no cold winter when animals cease breeding, an urban geography that has wide open spaces, and it's big — like 44
square miles big.
About a million
more square miles of ocean are covered in ice in 2013 than in 2012, a whopping 60 percent increase — and a dramatic deviation from predictions of an «ice - free Arctic in 2013,» the Daily Mail noted.
The greater Yellowstone ecosystem, an area the size of South Carolina sprawling for 31,000
square miles across Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, has been hit particularly hard by beetle outbreak.
The entire United States is your driving playground, covering thousands of
square miles from city to suburb, county to county, state to state, coast to summit.
Pointing breeds run their dogs in field trials off horseback and need
several square miles as the dogs range far and wide, while their hunt tests are foot handled and need much less space.
The city of Los Angeles has the second - highest population of any town in the United States [1], and LA County has the highest population of any county, with a staggering 2433 people per
square mile as of 2008 [2].
The warmth made daily sea ice extents average about 232,000
square miles smaller than during any May in the 38 years scientists have been gathering data using satellites.
On a much larger scale, New Zealand's struggle to eradicate exotic species has risen to the level of a national emergency, and victory is declared on the poignantly small scale of a few dozen
square miles at a time.
This was the third smallest July extent since records began in 1979 and about 73,000
square miles larger than the record smallest July sea ice extent in 2011.
Moose, Kelly, and I snuggle up in a king - size bed before getting another early start to take a slight detour south and visit Arches National Park, a remarkable 120
square miles covered with elaborate entrada sandstone structures that have been eroded by rainwater over hundreds of millions of years.
Sixteen miles from Minneapolis, on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, lies Deephaven — an exclusive 2.3
square mile city with about 3,600 residents.
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