Sentences with phrase «such inhospitable»

Antarctica has not always been such an inhospitable place though.
«As far as I know we are the first to conduct such a survey throughout an entire year and in such an inhospitable environment, under the ice and during an Arctic winter,» says Carolyn Rosten, a researcher at NINA.
It is remarkable that the stick insect has been able to persist in such an inhospitable habitat and in such low numbers.
Further understanding of how the algae thrives in such inhospitable conditions may help scientists engineer hardier crops.
The tiny microbe works its magic at near - boiling temperatures, providing the first example of a blue - green alga capable of juggling multiple forms of energy production in such an inhospitable environment.
Whilst it is extremely difficult to get samples from such an inhospitable environment, further work will enhance our understanding of the long - term behaviour of the fuel debris nano - particles and their impact.»

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I borrow my title from Harvey Cox's well known The Secular City, the aim of which was to map out and defend the relevance of religion for «the post-literate man of the electronic image» (TSC 11) whose urban, technological culture seemed to many so inhospitable for such an endeavor.
What the Beef Products process does is increase the amount of ammonium hydroxide in the lean beef to elevate its overall pH and make the product inhospitable to the survival of pathogens, such as E. coli and salmonella.
Such planets are rocky now because their stars blew their thick atmospheres away, leaving nothing but an inhospitable core, researchers report in a paper posted online October 15 at arXiv...
Experts say such cuts could shrink the so - called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which becomes inhospitable to wildlife almost every summer.
But where in the body — an inhospitable place for delicate quantum perturbations — could such happenings take place?
Most likely, such expansion can end only one way: in stillness and total darkness, with temperatures near absolute zero, conditions utterly inhospitable to life.
Besides explaining the estimated differences in ages between gas giants such as Neptune and Uranus and rocky worlds such as Earth and Venus, the new findings help explain how gas - swaddled super-Earths — ones possibly shrouded with inhospitable atmospheres — were banished from an otherwise inhabitable neighborhood.
The research, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the air.
Both teams then tried to figure out how methyl isocyanate might have formed in such a very cold and inhospitable environment.
Many microorganisms have survival strategies, such as the formation of cysts, which enable them to withstand periods of inhospitable conditions.
Because yeast thrives on such foods, this creates an inhospitable environment for yeast and greatly reduces the likelihood of suffering from yeast related issues.
With a coat unlike any other, they can not only survive, but thrive in inhospitable climates such as Siberia, Alaska, and the Arctic.
While the game still includes barriers (such as weather effects, inhospitable environments or strong enemies), many of these can be overcome by using Food, effective weapons and armor or finding alternate routes.
«Cuba's Plaza of the Revolution is one such place — a stark, inhospitable arena where all the major political events of the past half - century have been marked by mass choreography, militarized displays and rhetorical flourish.
If, as Hall states, representation is a form of power, then Strachan's art is a way of complicating recurrent themes such as invisibility, migration, and displacement and to understand what Strachan describes as «the capacity of both persons and matter to withstand inhospitable environments.
It's difficult to imagine such abundance in an inhospitable environment until you see it for yourself.
The only warming that can be ferreted out of the temperature records is in the coldest and most inhospitable regions on Earth, such as in the dry air of the Arctic or Siberia where going from a -50 °C to a -40 °C at one small spot on the globe is extrapolated across tens of thousands of miles and then branded as global warming.
Societies have faced both gradual and abrupt climate changes for millennia and have learned to adapt through various mechanisms, such as moving indoors, developing irrigation for crops, and migrating away from inhospitable regions.
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