Sentences with phrase «vast rivers of»

Immense craggy mountain ranges erupt straight up from colossal boulder fields, vast rivers of ice calve into deep blue lakes, and its intricate coastline is strewn with uncharted fiords and inlets.

Already the technology has inspired private companies to develop software for monitoring the vast rivers of data each Gorgon - enhanced Reaper will send back.

If all of these leaders turn to action now, the stream of professional learning already flowing in 60 schools could become a vast river of learning and job opportunity for U.S. teachers — and their students.

The vast river of reorchestration quickly became a small stream since the beginning of the semester.

At the People's Climate March back last spring, all along that vast river of people, the atmosphere was electric.

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It's a vast area that stretches south of the Ottawa river, east to the Quebec boarder, north of the St. Lawrence and as far west as Perth.

These projects look very much like strip mines and have some of the same environmental impacts, which include diverting and polluting rivers and streams, causing heavy erosion, and disturbing vast areas of soil.

Some opponents have argued access to the 1 1/2 - mile - wide river, with its potential to dilute vast amounts of pollution, would let Georgia - Pacific increase production and create more waste without running afoul of environmental laws.»

Neither can the lakes and rivers and bays and streams and creeks flowing from the vast oceanic sea of Nothingness be denied.

Born in the vast mountain ranges of British Columbia, the Fraser River floods southward to its rendezvous with the Pacific.

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

The task was not to defend the particular stream of Christianity in which my students had first touched the waters of baptism, but to show them that it was fed by a vast river stretching back two millennia.

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.

It would have led to Israel's permanent annexation of 8 to 12 percent of the West Bank as well as a large area of settlements around Jerusalem, plus the long - term «lease» to Israel of the Jordan River Valley, plus Israeli «security control» (which is another way of saying «continued occupation») of the vast swathes of territory on which lie the bypass roads connecting the settlements.

«Lastly, it is to the hills that the fountains owe their rise and the rivers their conveyance, and consequently those vast masses and lofty piles are not, as they are charged, such rude and useless excrescences of our ill - formed globe; but the admirable tools of nature, contrived and ordered by the infinite Creator, to do one of its most useful works.

Like finding tiny gold nuggets in the vast murky river of the day to day.

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Finding Your Own Passenger Pigeon - Center for Humans & Nature - January 2015 10 best Chicago museums: Top institutions to visit in Chicago - TimeOut Chicago - December 10, 2014 From prairie and river ecosystems to the biology of Ice Age — mammals, nature and its conservation, the focus at this Lincoln Park museum situated alongside a lagoon is vast and varied.

Aside from producing vast quantities of methane, cows also contribute their manure and urine to our rivers and ground water.

Ghana has a vast river system with an array of tributaries.

Its vast swathe swamp of rivers, creeks and rivulets and dense mangrove vegetation has made effective policing of the area a herculean task for the security agencies.

A vast majority of New York State Assemblymembers this week sent letters to General Electric and Governor Andrew Cuomo asking for more PCB removal along the Hudson River.

Malaska works as a volunteer for the Cassini team in his spare time and at the conference he described a winding channel flowing into a south Titan lake that follows a path very similar to a stretch of the lower Mississippi river — and thus might carry a comparably vast flow after a methane rain.

And for vast swaths of western rivers, tamarisks are now the only tree.

That's because while the dams stopped new sediment flowing into the river, vast quantities of sand were already trapped in riverbed dunes downstream of the dams (Nature Geoscience, doi.org/sfr).

Two - thirds of California's water is drawn from the vast delta where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers flow into San Francisco Bay.

Thus, the vast numbers of farmers in the Indo - Gangetic Plain and in China's Yellow River Basin will most likely face severe disruptions in water availability.

Environmentalists inside and outside China warn that the rapidly expanding dam lake is already causing destructive soil erosion and has polluted the river with vast amounts of trapped sewage, agricultural chemicals, and hazardous industrial wastes.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

Meet Timurlengia euotica, a horse - sized tyrannosaur that lived about 90 million years ago when Uzbekistan was a sweltering maze of forests and rivers bordering a vast inland sea.

By the time New Orleans was founded in 1718, the main channel of the river was the beating heart of a system pumping sediment and nutrients through a vast circulatory network that stretched from present - day Baton Rouge south to Grand Isle, west to Texas and east to Mississippi.

The vast magnificent savanna, forests, wooded savannas, and deep rivers habitats remain largely intact with potential for recovery of wildlife populations if urgent and robust conservation security measures are taken in this strategic area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), ECOFAUNE + / AGRECO, and the Ministry of Environment of Central African Republic said in a report issued today.

The evidence of the success of early rice farmers on the vast wetlands near the Guaporé River in Rondônia state, Brazil, could help modern day plant breeders develop rice crops which are less susceptible to disease and more adaptable to the effects of climate change than the Asian varieties.

He spent his lifetime piecing together the story of how a raging wall of water hundreds of feet high roared across eastern Washington, carving deep channels before cascading down the Columbia River Gorge as a wall of water high enough to turn Oregon's Willamette Valley into a vast backwater lake.

No one — not Dos Santos or any of the other villagers of Barra do São Manuel, a tiny settlement on the banks of the Tapajós River deep in the Brazilian Amazon, or anyone else in the vast rain forest — relishes facing it, with or without shotgun in hand.

Following World War II, manufacturers also began producing vast quantities of agricultural fertilizers containing nitrogen and phosphorous — and about 95 percent of these nutrients run off into rivers and are flushed into coastal waters.

Titan is believed to have vast hydrocarbon oceans and rivers made of liquid methane at temperatures that would preclude the possibility of existence of Earth - like organisms.

low to moderate upstream water use or levels of water development representative of the region (note that the vast majority of rivers in Montana are influenced to some degree by water use, and these data do reflect some human modification).

Instead of water, liquid methane falls as rain, creates rivers that cut into the hydrocarbon - rich surface, which in turn make valleys, and flows into vast liquid methane lakes.

Located at the confluence of a vast web of busy river and sea routes, it naturally grew into a

Located at the confluence of a vast web of busy river and sea routes, it naturally grew into a Largest mechanical puppet ever built in Britain will tour Wales.

What was once a land of vast lakes and broad rivers has turned into a parched region of glittering stone and burning sand.

When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage - dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior - Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard - dog, Spots.

When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast rubbish - dump called Trash Island, young Atari Kobayashi (newcomer Koyu Rankin) sets off alone in a miniature Junior - Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard - dog, Spots.

The setting is the Wind River Indian reservation, a vast, wintry area of land in central Wyoming.

There, once it sinks in that the Japanese intend to use the Brits to build a railway west of Baghdad through mountains and valleys, a vast, unenviable and soul - crushing undertaking (famously fictionalized in the Oscar - winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai).

From the Indus in Pakistan, to the Yangzte in China and to the Colorado River in the US, not forgetting the Amazon, the Nile and the Congo - the majority of the world's great waterways, and thus the huge populations who rely on them, are in crisis; and it's not just the rivers themselves but the vast underground reservoirs that are being drained too.

If he goes so far as to conjure dark - haired children for them, I don't know, but he does build a house where they sit together on a porch, a vast and fertile farm on the other side of the river, and on this night, a shed full of bright chrome tractors, twice as big as the ones that rest still warm and ticking in his father's mule barn.

And running beneath it all are the sweeping tentacles of London's vast and forgotten underground river system.

From conversations, both significant and silly, to breaking news, there's a vast amount of information flowing through the river of data that is Twitter.