Sentences with phrase «vast regions of»

Due to limited amounts of agricultural land vast regions of virgin forest are being cut down for biofuel production.

The compressional warming that occurs as the air descends creates vast regions of subtropical high pressure.

Second, it has been well established by multiple analysts that modern climate records have been heavily manipulated by govt «scientists» to fabricate faux - warming over vast regions of the globe.

University of Colorado at Boulder, «NASA, CU - Boulder Study Shows Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past,» press release (Boulder: 15 May 2007).

NASA Finds Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past 05.15.07 http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/arctic-20070515.html

The environmental devastation caused by manufacturing is horrific, from the chromium contamination of vast regions of northern India by tanneries, to the brimming landfill sites of America, where 11 million tons of clothes are thrown away annually, left to rot and produce methane gas.

«As the Arctic sea - ice cover continues to disappear and the snow cover melts ever earlier over vast regions of Eurasia and North America, it is expected that large - scale circulation patterns throughout the northern hemisphere will become increasingly influenced by Arctic Amplification.»

These cloud - piercing structures serve three important roles: first, they give you unlock points for your skill tree every time you «purify» one (ie, claim it for you own); second, they serve as helpful travel points across the impressively vast regions of the game; and third, they unlock hidden missions and collectibles.

On the three scientific voyages he led between 1768 and his violent death in 1779, English Navy Captain James Cook explored and mapped vast regions of the previously uncharted world, filling in with astounding accuracy fully a third of the globe.

[84] The Universe also has vast regions of relative emptiness; the largest known void measures 1.8 billion ly (550 Mpc) across.

«These images provide specific spatial scales and relative strengths of these sources that now can be put into computer models that attempt to simulate how all types of gases escape from Io to populate the vast regions of space surrounding Jupiter,» Mendillo added.

is difficult to reconcile with the obvious clumping of matter into galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and even larger features extending across vast regions of the universe, such as «walls» and «bubbles».»

According to standard physics, cosmic rays created outside our galaxy with energies greater than about 1020 electronvolts (eV) should not reach Earth at those energies: as they travel over such vast regions of space they should lose energy because of collisions with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the big bang.

Measure one, and the other is instantly transformed by that measurement as well; it's as if the twins mystically communicate, instantly, over vast regions of space.

The economic collapse that followed the end of communism in Russia in the early 1990s has given rise to a TB epidemic in vast regions of the continent - size country.

Robots like Nereus will make it much easier for scientists to explore vast regions of the deep ocean that were once off - limits.

Such stands of relatively untouched trees are meant as shelters for the rich array of plant and animal species, such as the tiger, that once spread throughout vast regions of tropical jungle.

The ice is disappearing, melting permafrost threatens to belch methane, and now comes a warning that vast regions of tundra could singe.

The downside of the deal, say opponents, is that electric rates will go up for many rate - payers in vast regions of New York.

The downside of the deal, opponents say, is that electric rates will go up for many ratepayers in vast regions of New York.

But famine, like a plague, spreads, and, «In reality it's a very large food security crisis involving a number of countries and millions at risk,» said Golden, referring to the crisis situation in vast regions of east Africa.

Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently emerging into the open with the «militarization» of vast regions of the country.

The spiritual and cultural traditions of vast regions of the West are increasingly being called into question; indeed, we can go even further and say they are being liquidated, quickly and relatively painlessly.

The images, taken by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite, offer a peek at a vast region of...

The degradation of the historically stable Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf would upset ice on land, triggering runaway melting over a vast region of the continent and accelerating global sea level rise.

This vast region of Italy was completely new for me to explore and when I was invited by Romagna Buon Vivre and coordinator Alessandra Catania to experience it with other journalist, I jumped at opportunity.

The BattleTech Universe is one of near - constant warfare and feudal political intrigue, where great noble houses vie for dominance of a vast region of space known as the Inner Sphere.

Uncover the secrets of Amalur in hundreds of hours of immersive gameplay, from the vibrant city of Rathir to the vast region of Dalentarth to the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns.

The Erg Admer, a large area of sand dunes in southern Algeria, is located within a vast region of subtropical high pressure.

Prof Wadhams is co-author of the controversial Nature paper which calculated the potential economic costs of climate change based on a scenario of 50 Gigatonnes (Gt) of methane being released this century from melting permafrost at the East Siberia Arctic Shelf (ESAS), a vast region of shallow - water covered continental crust.

Not exact matches

The vast majority of companies are in the blue regions.

While representing the vast majority of its metro region, Calgary Economic Development also benefits from diversified funding from the city, private industry and other levels of government.

The vast geography of L.A. and its surrounding cities, as well as the notoriously clogged freeways that connect them, is one of the region's major obstacles.

The end result is vast swarms of flying ants blanketing the region.

As much as 56 % of the country was experiencing drought conditions as of mid-February, especially in the so - called Corn Belt area, a vast region that includes Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Recently appointed as the nation's first special representative for the Arctic, Admiral Robert Papp arrives in the region just as Russia and Canada are clamoring for a piece of its vast oil and gas reserves, and as Shell is exploring for oil in American waters.

«To hold the conference in Monterrey, Mexico, was a strategic decision to highlight the talent and vast business resources of the region, including the Tecnológico de Monterrey, one of the most recognized universities in Latin America.»

A series of escalating trade barriers would cause trade within the region to drop sharply — by perhaps 5 to 10 per cent, economists estimate — and trigger a gradual unwinding of vast supply networks established over decades.

The extraction and processing of a viscous oil called «bitumen,» excavated from vast formations of sand just below the surface of Alberta's northern region, has come under fire because it requires more energy than many other oil operations.

In our China special, we highlight the opportunities for dealmakers in the region; look at the new breed of LP; identify the growth investment opportunities in China's vast business landscape, and discuss how increased affluence is spurring demand for high - end products.

1 in 6 Canadians live in this vast region around Toronto and it is our country's most important and our flagship in so many areas - and Burlington is an important part of that success.

This vast region — practically the entire southern hemisphere — gained its political independence and set out in pursuit of «development»: the industrialization, technology and affluence of the First and Second worlds.

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.

West of the mountains lay a vast region threaded by rivers that emptied into the mighty Father of Waters, the Mississippi.

The irony is that those who memorize this book come from different backgrounds and regions in the world (the vast majority of whom can't speak Arabic or carry a conversation in Arabic but yet have those 600 pages memorized by heart.

A fascinating recent book by historian Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt To Sunbelt, shows how a vast migration of «plain - folk» religious migrants from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas flocked to Southern California during World War II, winning the region for Christ and the modern Republican right.

The Brandt Commission found hope in the fact that vast irrigation schemes are being considered, especially in Africa, noting that such projects will enable the great rivers to become the means of transforming large areas of semiarid land into productive agricultural regions.

Geographically, since 1939 a vast expanse of the earth, the region of the Pacific, hitherto on the fringe of civilization, has for practical purposes entered irrevocably into the orbit of industrialized nations.

Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.

The fact stated by Prof. Herzfeld in a recent lecture that «the whole of north west India was a vast province of the Persian Empire in the third century governed by Persian officials» must also have been a contributing factor in the spread of Christianity in these regions.