Sentences with phrase «square miles less»

The total extent of the Arctic sea ice reached 5.59 million square miles, which is about 450,000 square miles less than the average and 20,000 square miles more than 2017.

That's about two - and - a-half times the size of Alaska — and about five million square miles less than last year's minimum extent.

Ice cover in the Arctic sea just hit a new low, at 525,000 square miles less than normal.

And it's about 37,000 square miles less than the 2015 maximum extent, the previous record - setting low.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.).

Not exact matches

Aerial video captured seas of people — in front of Trump International Hotel in New York; in a central square in Tokyo; along the streets of Boston; at a rally in downtown Fort Worth, Tex.; and crammed into a park less than a mile from Stoneman Douglas High.

Botswana is roughly the size of Kenya, but it is landlocked and its population is less than 600,000 — about 2 1/2 people per square mile.

I for one love the fact that I can walk (1/4 mile) to Foster / Lents station, catch the green line to Moda Center or Pioneer Square, transfer to red or blue and be at the venue in less than an hour from the time I walk out my front door.

The barrio had no paved streets, much less sidewalks, streetlights or parks, and 50,000 people packed themselves into less than one square mile, about twice the population density of New York City.

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.

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.

4 THE BLACK HOLE OF NEVADA On average, according to the most recent U.S. census, less than one person per square mile lives in the Great Basin of Nevada.

To stave off a complete collapse of gulf fisheries and shrimp populations, Scavia finds, the dead zone must shrink drastically, to 2,000 square miles or less — and for that to happen, agricultural nitrogen runoff will have to decrease by at least 40 percent.

Knutie and Clayton say their method might help the endangered mangrove finches, with only 60 cotton dispensers needed to cover the less than half a square mile inhabited by the birds on Isabela Island.

The researchers studying the Rim Fire, which in 2013 burned nearly 400 square miles of forest in the Sierra Nevadas, found the blaze was less severe in areas recently treated with controlled burns.

All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before — a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined.

That number has since fallen by more than two thirds, to less than 2,500 square miles in 2011, which is the lowest rate of destruction since the country began keeping records in the late 1980s.

In northern Canada, for instance, some 4 million square miles of real estate lie north of rail lines and all - weather highways, and warming winters are making seasonally - constructed ice roads less reliable.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

There are approximately less than 150 chimpanzees that live in the 30 square miles (32 square kilometers) Gombe National Park.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

These 144 school districts (comprising roughly 34 percent of Wisconsin's 422 school districts) qualified for sparsity aid based on having a membership of 745 or fewer students and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile of the district's geographic area.

Summary: The Maplewood Richmond Heights School District, which covers less than three square miles outside of St. Louis» inner city, has brought service learning — and student achievement — to new heights through unique, project - based initiatives integrated into the daily curriculum.

Between the money paid for the property and the new library space, the cost came out to $ 211 per buildable square foot — less than the $ 270 average for development sites in north Brooklyn and $ 311 for land sales within a two - mile radius in the last two years, according to the study.

Southeast Farallon was less than one square mile across.

The county encompasses approximately 429 square miles of land and has less than 10,000 residents.

Given the extent to which conservation efforts backfired on Macquarie Island — less than 50 square miles in size — one can only imagine the consequences and expense (to say nothing of the protests!)

Beyond your 4800 square foot private estate, you're just a few minutes by car from Country Line Beach, Point Sand Dune, and Sandy Hill, while El Matador Beach and Lechuza Beach are less than ten miles away.

It may measure less than 50 square miles, but San Francisco justly ranks as one of the greatest cities in the world.

It may measure less than 50 square miles / 130 square kilometers, but San Francisco justly ranks as one of the greatest cities in the world.

At 104 square miles, Glacier Grey forms less than three percent of the 4,773 - square - mile sheet of ice stretching across southern Chile and Argentina.

Directly across from the Koricancha, it is a five - minute walk from the main square and less than a mile from an array of museums, markets, and restaurants.

Belize is bursting with scenery, ruins, beaches and culture, but it still only occupies less than 9,000 square miles of space.

It is very small (less than 2.5 square miles), though quite clean and peaceful.

Muir Woods is located within the Redwood Creek watershed, just 8 miles north of San Francisco, in an area of less than 9 square miles, and harbors an incredibly diverse ecosystem of plant and animal species.

On Sunday, the Sea Center of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will sponsor a voyage to Santa Barbara Island, a sanctuary with an area of less than 1 square mile where sea lions and elephant seals breed far from the madding crowd.

We offer 18,000 square feet of event facilities, including a ballroom with space for up to 500 guests, in one of the best conference venues in Helena, MT.. After work, travel three miles or less to attractions like the Montana State Capitol and the Great Northern Carousel.

We are located less than a mile from downtown, but our romantic, sprawling resort can seem like a peaceful oasis away from the hustle and bustle of the square.

You are less than a mile off the square where you'll find delicious restaurants, cute shops, and tasting rooms.

There really aren't words to describe what it feels to explore Banco Chinchorro, to know that you are probabbly the only dive boat diving an atoll that sprawls 600 square miles (less of 1 % is above water) that has been witness to almost 200 wrecks dating back to the 16th century.

Just a five - minute walk from the main square and less than a mile from an array of museums, markets, and restaurants.

This bright and engaging 3.0 - star property stands just minutes from both JFK and LaGuardia Airports and less than ten miles from Times Square, the Empire State Building, and Madison Square Garden.

Location: This property is centrally located in Prague's Old Town area, just steps from Wenceslas Square, the National Museum, Prague State Opera, and less than a mile from the Charles Bridge and Prague Castle.

The capital rests on the island of Grand Turk with an area of less than 7 square miles and a population of around 3700, a cruise ship centre exists on Grand Turk and the island provides very popular shore excursions for cruise ship guests.

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The 20 - square - mile municipality, the smallest city in Massachusetts, now has a population of less than 14,000; it lost 4,000 jobs in 1985 with the closure of Mass MoCA's predecessor in the buildings, Sprague Electric Co., and about as many residents left over the next 15 years.

The exhibition will be staged at the defunct, 7,500 square - foot Giant Motors: Auto Body & Paint Shop (1750 Bay Road, Miami Beach), less than one mile away from the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference.

The Mississippi River / Gulf of Mexico Nutrient Management Task Force supports the goal of reducing the size of the hypoxic zone to less than 5,000 square kilometers, or 1,900 square miles, which will require substantial reductions in nitrogen and phosphorus reaching the Gulf.

Underdeveloped countries are not going to have problems with toxics and drugs escaping into drinking water, but your composting potty idea is not going to work very well where people live in squalid conditions of 500 persons on up per square mile, Unfortunately, many more people live under such crowded conditions than those, who can make a composting potty to dump out in some isolated spot where a few hundred people or less people live on a square mile.