Sentences with phrase «thousands of square miles»

Now, if it takes thousands of square miles of solar cells to power a mid-sized city, what happens to the light and heat that used to reach the ground?

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.

Keep in mind that the center line is not necessarily the final path, and the reach of potent winds and rain extends over thousands of square miles.

In an ecosystem covering thousands of square miles, those losses seemed insignificant.

But large eruptions, creating vast lava flows in some cases thousands of square miles in area, were thought to be rare.

As you swim further out, there are thousands of shallow areas filled with coral heads and reefs that extend thousands of square miles.

Cities require extensive farmland, food transportation systems, extensive energy production, fresh water systems that affect the land surrounding the city for thousands of square miles, and intense waste management.

Building enough photovoltaic arrays to power Los Angeles would mean blanketing thousands of square miles of desert habitat.

The kit fox, full grown at five or six pounds and a master controller of rodents, has vanished from thousands of square miles of the prairie.

The problem with algae is still the fact that it takes a certain amount of energy to split the CO2 molecule, and since there's only so much energy in sunlight, you'd need to cover many thousands of square miles with algae ponds to have a significant effect.

The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer.

The only eco-resort in the Bahamas, Tiamo is appropriately set on the island of Andros, whose thousands of square miles of unsullied nature are usually... Read More

The coccoliths of one species, Emiliania huxleyi — named after Huxley — reflect sunlight, turning thousands of square miles of water white or aqua.

This is the Indian monsoon, which deposits rainfall on thousands of square miles of farmland.

The loss of the already isolated Mono Basin population would create a gap in the range of the species as a whole, covering 14 counties across two states and spanning thousands of square miles.

The disaster Hurricane Harvey — now a tropical storm — has created is immense in scale, encompassing thousands of square miles of Southeast Texas.

If we manufacture thousands of square miles of PV cells there will be environmental costs in both production and in placement.

Those changes distort the airflow aloft five to 10 miles above thousands of square miles of the Earth's surface, causing a ripple effect that typically causes major shifts in global weather patterns.

Though scattered across thousands of square miles of ocean, dive sites in the Maldives fall into three general categories, based on structure: Individual islands within an atoll are generally surrounded by a reef that creates a sheltered lagoon.

Forty to fifty thousand of them might be scattered in pairs and little groups over thousands of square miles of tundra.

Blanket thousands of square miles with habitat - suffocating solar panels?

The environment of these earliest Mesoamericans was quite different from that existing today, for volcanoes were then extremely active, covering thousands of square miles with ashes.

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.

Someday this material could be stretched over many thousands of square miles of countryside.

The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer.

The only eco-resort in the Bahamas, Tiamo is appropriately set on the island of Andros, whose thousands of square miles of unsullied nature are usually visited only by anglers hunting for bonefish.

It is home to the world's second largest reef with thousands of square miles of mangroves and tropical forest injected with some fascinating history and heritage deriving from Mayan roots.

When you first become a Christian, and you fly over the rain forest of your life, it is thousands of square miles of impassible and inhabitable jungle, full of twisted vines, rotting leaves, and deadly predators.

It's more accurate to think of it as an exotic mussel bed sprawling across thousands of square miles.

The tsunami crashed down — in seemingly slow motion, due to the low gravity — and then rushed across hundreds of thousands of square miles of plains and up into highlands.

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.

The displays can show details down to the level of transformers at individual substations and circuit breakers across thousands of square miles.

Pumice and ash blanketed thousands of square miles.

UNITED NATIONS — The biggest land grab since colonial times is accelerating as nations scramble to claim writ over hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, much of it believed to be rich in natural resources.

These migrants frequently bring illnesses with them from the bush, making Kingasani a hot zone worth watching, as potential zoonoses from tens of thousands of square miles are concentrated in the slum.

The project would expand through the state, river basin by river basin, eventually covering the Amazon and some of its largest tributaries, including the Rios Negro, Purus, Jurua, and Madeira, an area measuring hundreds of thousands of square miles.

To get a better idea, imagine your book is one tree in a forest with millions of tress spread over hundreds of thousands of square miles and readers are visiting that forest hiking along trails looking for one tree that will interest them.

The vast majority of the 700 significant islands of the Bahamas sit atop a pair of shallow limestone banks: Little Bahama Bank and Great Bahama Bank, which together encompass tens of thousands of square miles of submerged habitat.

From thermal springs, dramatic mountain ridges, thousands of square miles of greenery and glacial forests.

The Great Patriotic War was an immense struggle, lasting more than 4 years, and covering thousands of square miles of Europe and Asia.

With a deep - sea blowout, unlike a spill on land or in a bay, the liberated oil can spread over thousands of square miles.

I'm posting this projection of the cumulative rainfall estimate over the next three days from Hurricane Irene as a reminder that while storm surge and wind damage will be fairly tightly focused, the storm's destructive potential will be felt over an enormous area, with the prospect of serious flooding across thousands of square miles.

Thousands of square miles of formerly living things are floated away to the Pacific Ocean and giant Canadian Rocky erratic boulders are rafted to the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon where they become evidence that nature doesn't care for stagnation.