Sentences with phrase «to aboveground»

Nuclear physicists say such a weapon could cause a local tsunami, though they question its purpose and effectiveness, given the far more terrible destruction that nukes can inflict when detonated aboveground.

The specimens in Mote's aboveground tanks come from massive coral, a slower - growing type that resembles giant boulders underwater and is responsible for building the main structure of reefs.

Isaac Hempstead - Wright plays a human boy named Eggs by the Boxtrolls who've raised him, and Elle Fanning is a young girl who befriends Eggs when he ventures aboveground.

He's been working, aboveground instead of below it ever since — just not in Hazard.

Pure Earth identifies and develops clean - up strategies for the poorest communities where high concentrations of toxins have devastating health effects ---- a strong alignment with Diamond Foundry's mission to revolutionize the diamond industry with world - positive aboveground diamonds.

The right - wing moralists make scapegoats of homosexuals, who are now aboveground and who claim the full rights of human beings and citizens.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today says two water main breaks in Rotterdam and a sewer break in Amsterdam underscore the continued urgent need for a new state program to repair and maintain vital local drinking water, sewer, storm water management and gas line infrastructure to protect lives, secure the viability of roads and bridges aboveground, and save tax dollars.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke) and Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R,C,I - Corning) are joining with several local Capital Region officials in seeking a new state program to repair and maintain vital local drinking water, sewer, storm water management and gas line infrastructure to protect lives, secure the viability of roads and bridges aboveground and save tax dollars.

He said changes to the code, which went into effect Feb. 1, now allows farmers to install aboveground diesel tanks that store up to 1,000 gallons.

The bot can clamber across rough and smooth terrain, aboveground and underwater, carrying up to...

Then it would either explode just aboveground — as one most likely did in 1908, leveling a vast forest in the Tunguska region of Siberia — or gouge a crater 20 times its size.

However, a team of geographers from the universities of Jena and Oxford, and from Germany's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, has now succeeded in establishing a methodology that enables them to measure the aboveground biomass of the savannahs and record even minor changes in the ecosystem.

Geographers use satellite and terrestrial data to calculate aboveground biomass in South Africa's Kruger National Park.»

Underground aquifers can be identified by aboveground formations, helping officials bring cleaner water to people by pointing out where not to place a landfill or dispose of toxic waste.

In better years, the semitropical heat and aboveground sewage system led to outbreaks of cholera and typhoid so severe that gravediggers, unable to keep up, left hundreds of corpses to rot in the streets.

When one of the pilgrims found a peyote cactus peeking aboveground in the desert, he pulled his bowstring taut and shot an arrow through its center.

Prairie dogs are herbivorous rodents of the squirrel family, and forage aboveground from dawn until dusk.

According to Dr. Natali, «There is 100 times more carbon stored belowground than aboveground in the arctic, so observed changes in plant productivity are only a very small component of the story.

Belowground storm shelters are best, but some aboveground rooms will work — if the storm isn't too severe

«When we understand them well and can control them, we should be able to regulate root activity,» just like modern agriculture has successfully altered activity aboveground, he says.

If biofuels are produced by clearing forests and just dumping the aboveground carbon back into the atmosphere, then the bathtub fills up with carbon emitted from the sequestered carbon in the forest.

The size of the stumps and roots is the most significant factor for determining impact on forest carbon balance, while the impact on biodiversity depends on the amount of sturdy stump wood aboveground.

In the event of a chemical attack, though, he recommends staying indoors aboveground, because nerve agents are heavier than air and hence will accumulate in basements.

The aboveground plant cells have adapted to the bright, dry conditions with a sunscreen - like pigment and a special blend of chlorophyll that allow them to photosynthesize without frying to a crisp.

In untouched forests, dead wood is created through natural processes and makes up less than 20 per cent of the total aboveground biomass.

The various passages and chambers of the site strongly resembled the temples aboveground, with upright stone blocks spanned by lintels, steps, hinge holes for barriers and perhaps painted decorations.

Because the exhibit is in an aboveground warehouse, it collects sunlight on the roof and channels the rays directly through a circular array of six tubes into the building — no fiber optics needed.

Silo cap The only thing visible aboveground is a concrete cap with blast - proof windows, built to withstand a shock wave traveling more than 2,000 miles an hour — about what a nuclear detonation would produce.

In addition, most species are hiding in the dark understory of forests, only discoverable during the flowering and fruiting period when aboveground organs appear through the leaf litter.

Plants either dropped their leaves seasonally, shutting down the pathways that would normally carry water between roots and leaves; developed thinner water - conducting pathways, allowing them to keep their leaves while reducing the risk of air bubbles developing during freezing and thawing; or avoided the cold seasons altogether as herbs, losing aboveground stems and leaves and retreating as seeds, or storing organs underground, such as tulips or potatoes.

The girl was wrapped in textiles and a cord net and placed in a pit or an enclosed aboveground space.

Whenever a front of warmer air sweeps over the frigid pool, the result is a fog that hovers roughly 1,000 feet aboveground, socking the airport in.

Using this built - in compass, the blind animals can get around «at least as efficiently as sighted animals aboveground.»

«Biodiversity belowground is just as important as aboveground.»

The study uncovers that the many satellite data sets share common information related to crop biomass grown aboveground.

According to her, the research included four of the five functionally distinct carbon pools whose study is recommended by the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): aboveground biomass (live plants), dead organic matter, leaf litter (layer that contains a combination of fragments of leaves, branches and other decomposing organic matter) and soil (up to 30 centimeters (cm) in depth).

When salt is buried under heavier rocks, it rises buoyantly in vast sheets and fingers; it may even fountain aboveground and flow like a glacier.

More agents, cameras, lighting and all - weather roads are helping control who and what crosses the border — at least aboveground.

This pulse stopped with the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground tests of nuclear weapons, and the unstable carbon - 14 isotopes have steadily decayed.

In the winter an aboveground heat pump extracts warm vapors (up to 115 degrees Fahrenheit) from the fluid by running it through a circuit of evaporation, compression, and condensation.

They found the lizards breathe out with about 60 % more intensity inside their sandy burrows than when they are aboveground, which might allow them to expel sand particles from their nostrils.

«It is widely accepted that breeding efforts focused on aboveground traits alone are not sufficient to achieve the necessary agricultural yield to meet this future global demand.

The ore taken from Nevada's Comstock load financed the means by which we preserved the Union during the Civil War, and Nevada has hosted aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the result being a weapon of such mass destruction that it swiftly brought the end to the World War II conflict.

In fact, dead wood comprises up to 64 percent of the biomass found in these tropical forests; whereas in untouched forests, dead wood makes up less than 20 percent of the total aboveground biomass.

According to the new findings, because selective logging leaves behind significant damage and tree debris, dead wood actually accounts for a large part of the total aboveground biomass.

Fire severity (measured as total carbon stored in aboveground tissues killed by fire) estimated for 2003 - 2012, a relatively dry decade.

23 New research indicates that there is not a trade - off between managing for productivity and carbon storage; stands managed with early (prior to onset of canopy closure and intense competition), pre-commercial thinning had lower densities, larger trees, greater structural complexity, and stored as much aboveground carbon as un-thinned stands (Schaedel et al. 2017).

Within a few days of being ejected onto the surface, it had cooled and hardened in the freezing glacial environment aboveground.

``... the molten rock oozing from midocean ridges lacks much of the uranium, thorium, and other trace elements that spew from some aboveground volcanoes.»

The carbon deposits accumulated within these systems are stored aboveground in the biomass of plants (tree trunks, stems and leaves), below ground in the plant biomass (root systems and rhizomes), and in the carbon - rich organic soils typical to these ecosystems.