Sentences with phrase «square mile as»

Belize has designated approximately 155 square miles as Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Preserve.

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Industrial design is a competitive business, especially when you locate yourself in downtown Palo Alto, where office space goes for $ 4 a square foot per month (as opposed to half that in an industrial park three miles outside of town).

Molassia also has unofficial claims on a patch of sea 470 miles off the coast of Mexico, as well as almost an 50,000 square - mile parcel on Neptune.

Some 166 square miles, Tahoe - Reno Industrial Center, site of Tesla's new battery plant, is billed as the largest industrial park in the world, a realm that is home to 166 companies, including Wal - Mart, 1 -800-Diapers, and weapons manufacturer U.S. Ordnance.

County and municipal officials presented two sites that they believe could serve as viable locations for the e-commerce giant: the sprawling Chester City waterfront and nearly 1 million square feet of open and redevelopable land in Middletown Township, seven miles away.

A Pembina Institute study from 2009 estimated the costs to reclaim what was then 686 square miles of oil sands developments and 170 square miles of tailings ponds would run as high as $ 15 billion.

That's why Wayfair has invested in an 800,000 - square - foot site, scheduled to launch later in the second quarter, that will serve as a «storage facility, a cross dock, consolidation center and a last - mile delivery agent,» Shah explained.

Brokers and analysts attribute the increase to the rapid growth of Silicon Valley's tech industry as well as the 49 square - mile city's limited housing supply.

Chiltepin Preserve Officially DedicatedAfter a decade of waiting, Native Seeds / SEARCH, a Tucson - based seed conservation organization, announced that the National Forest Service has officially designated a 4 - square - mile area in the Coronado National Forest as a Special Management Area for the wild chile pepper, or chiltepin.

The Central Valley Is Sinking: Drought Forces Farmers to Ponder the Abyss As people dig ever deeper to find water, nearly 1,200 square miles of California is sinking 2 inches a month — destroying roads, bridges and farmland in the process...

Known as the Forbidden Island, Niihau provides its sheep herds with an extremely diverse range across the 72 - square mile island.

Home to such celebrity chefs as Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller, and Nobu Matsuhisa, to name a few, Beverly Hills is one of the most renowned culinary destinations in the world with global cuisine from France, Spain, Italy, India, Vietnam, Austria, and Venezuela, and more — all within the City's walkable 5.5 square miles.

Located on Long Island, 29 miles from Times Square (and from such other nighttime institutions as «21» and the Stork Club), the new track is dedicated to the proposition that the New Yorker and his lady will willingly cover a distance of ground to spend a sporting evening in an atmosphere of nightclub comfort.

He built a 5,000 - square - foot house near his mother's house in Fresno, and during the season he travels the 250 miles between there and Anaheim in his customized Mercedes as if it were a local commute.

The boundaries spread over 720 square miles and include the mega-city of Los Angeles as well as all or parts of 31 smaller municipalities plus several unincorporated sections of Southern California.

The Dutch side, with Philipsburg as its capital occupies the southern 17 square miles of this 37 - square - mile island; St. Martin, a French dependency, occupies the northern half.

The 90,000 - square - foot facility at 11351 W. 159th St. offers a climbing wall, a fitness center with 130 pieces of cardiovascular and free weight equipment, a one - tenth - mile indoor track, golf cages and activities such as indoor soccer, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, and aerobics.

As originally established, Albany County had an indefinite amount of land, but has only 530 square miles (1,372.69 km ²) as of March 3, 188As originally established, Albany County had an indefinite amount of land, but has only 530 square miles (1,372.69 km ²) as of March 3, 188as of March 3, 1888.

As of the 2010 census, a total of 142,722 civilians reside within the 68.5 square miles of Washington's forty - first state senate district.

While he's visited the Adirondacks plenty, most of his trips have been confined to the park's northern reaches: It's possible to draw a 2,400 square mile rectangle on a map with its eastern border near Saratoga and its southern line a few miles above Interstate 90, covering locations such as Lake Pleasant and Great Sacandaga Lake, without capturing any addresses contained in Cuomo's schedules.

It will contain a $ 20 million annual increase in funding for security in major parks across the five boroughs and the expansion of a crime - fighting tool known as ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to detect gunfire, to cover 60 square miles across the city.

[5] This established Chautauqua as a county of 1,100 square miles (2,850 square km) of land.

At its peak, the Bethlehem Steel plant employed over 25,000 workers and had over 7 million square feet of buildings, as well as almost 30 miles of rail track.

Even in 2012, the Lower East Side remains the area of the U.S. statistically most associated with immigration due to its long service as an initial immigrant destination in which enormous numbers of immigrant and migrant residents were squeezed into its less than two square miles.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

In an analysis, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the center.

A 386,000 - square - mile tract of permafrost in Siberia contains as much as 55 billion tons of potential methane, Walter says — 10 times the amount currently in the atmosphere.

Small electric vehicles, guided in part by magnets embedded in the road, will act as driverless taxicabs serving 83 stations situated throughout the roughly 2.5 - square - mile city.

At 135,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef reigns as the world's largest living structure.

The region known as the Lower Pecos is an arid 21,000 - square - mile expanse of southwest Texas and northern Mexico surrounding the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande.

The report adds that every square mile of ocean is home to nearly 50,000 pieces of litter, much of which tends to harm or kill wildlife that either ingests the plastic or gets trapped in discarded netting, which is just as common in the Northern Gyre as discarded soda bottles.

14 About 46,000 square miles of arable land turn to desert every year due to climate change and practices such as forest clear - cutting.

Other widespread population buildups can be toxic — as in May when a bloom of dinoflagellates covered nearly 4,000 square miles off China with a so - called red tide that killed off millions of fish.

Those same areas average nearly 2.5 times more waste sites, and more than four times as many waste sites per square mile.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

While 80 percent of Japan's land consists of mountains unsuitable for agriculture and only 14 percent is farmland, an average square mile of that farmland is so fertile that it supports eight times as many people as does an average square mile of British farmland.

Armand Bayou's 60 - square - mile watershed includes portions of Houston, Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte and Taylor Lake Village, as well as unincorporated portions of Harris County.

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.

Anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida teamed with the local Kuikuro people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to uncover 28 towns, villages and hamlets that may have supported as many as 50,000 people within roughly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) of forest — an area slightly smaller than New Jersey.

As of August 2008, it was still spewing some 130,000 cubic yards a day into what is now a steaming lake of hot mud, 60 feet deep and nearly three square miles in area.

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.

It covered about 1,300 square miles, an area as big as Ohio's Cuyahoga, Portage and Summit counties combined.

Two state agencies are teaming up with farmers in a 185 - square - mile area near Ginnie Springs to study best - management practices, such as reducing groundwater pumping and fertilizer use.

Several ethnic minority groups maintain hundreds of sacred forests, which range from a few acres to thousands of square miles, as part of their religion.

They include the detachment of a 1,300 - square - mile chunk from the Larsen B ice shelf, the disintegration of giant ice shelves in the Prince Gustav Channel and the Larsen Inlet, and the disappearance of ice shelves known as Jones, Larsen A, Muller and Wordie.

The Rose Atoll near American Samoa covers more than 13,000 square miles, including coral reefs and a lagoon that serves as a home to sea turtles, birds and giant clams.

The cameras watched him roam a 300 - square - mile block of forest as if he were searching for something.

Published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the study includes maps showing where lemurs are likely to seek refuge as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change across the 225,000 - square - mile island over the next 65 years.

Some 27,000 square miles went under as much as 30 feet of water, destroying 130,000 homes, leaving 600,000 people homeless and killing 500.

As these giant scavengers move to reoccupy their full seven - million - square - mile range, scientists are using state - of - the - art technology to guide the Pleistocene - period survivors toward full self - sustainability.