Sentences with phrase «tropical areas are considered»

Many soils in such lowland tropical areas are considered infertile and so Terra Preta, with its enhanced fertility due to high levels of soil organic matter and nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium, is quite an anomaly.

Not exact matches

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

The area has large blocks of intact tropical forest and is considered one of the most biodiverse throughout the region, but scientists agree that so far it is impossible to calculate the spill's real impact.

When global climate cooled, areas experiencing what are today considered tropical conditions shrank back toward the equator, and the net rate of species appearance (the number of new species that evolved minus the number that went extinct) increased.

But it looks like tropical cyclones may be moving into areas not currently considered tropical, when the storms reach maximum strength.

The distribution of these whales is considered widespread because they can occur in polar, temperate, and tropical waters in most seas and areas worldwide.

The area known as Tropical North Queensland is a large expanse of land and although definitive boundaries vary it is generally considered to be the area covering the city of Mackay north to the tip of Cape York; including the Torres Straight Islands region.

While much of the media focus on the effects of climate change has been on the Arctic, a review of peer - reviewed scientific literature done by researchers at Australia's James Cook University reveals that in the past 25 years there's been a expansion of the world's tropical zones and that human activity has contributed to it: The literature review shows that the areas which climatologists and meteorologists consider to be the tropics (which is defined differently than in geography) have expanded at minimum 300 kilometers (186 miles).