Sentences with phrase «water near the base»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed state regulators to investigate wastewater discharges that turned the water near the base of Niagara Falls black last weekend.

Not exact matches

Last week, the HMS Westminster, a Portsmouth - based Type 23 frigate, was ordered to intercept two Russian corvettes and two supporting vessels that neared UK waters en route to their Baltic base.

Shayla Wiggins, 19, was searching for a water - based Pokemon character near Riverton, Wy., when she discovered a body near a bridge, where a man is thought to have drowned in shallow water, according to media reports.

With its pure water supply, near pristine growing environment and dedication to conservation - based farming methods, this 2,300 - hectare farm on the banks of the Gemadro River is setting new standards for progressive, sustainable coffee farming.

You can prevent drowning by paying close attention to your baby when she is near water and to potential water - based hazards at all times.

The city's water supply, Lake Washington, is near the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Orange County, which the state Department of Environmental Conservation declared a Superfund site because it is likely the source of the pollution.

The U.S. Department of Defense is testing water supplies near air bases after high readings of PFOS have been discovered around the country.

The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water.

Biologists have long known that the mechanism involved two drops of water interacting with the half - egg shape of spores launched in this way: an elongated drop that forms on its flat side, and a small spherical drop called a Buller's drop that sits near the rounded base of the spore.

Equally enticing, some permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole seem to contain ice, which could provide water and air for the base.

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

Preen oil released from a gland near the base of the tail also works as a water repellent.

«We simulated virtual water trade based on virtual - water - poor regions (urban centres, such as Rome) demanding grain from the nearest virtual - water - rich region (agricultural regions, such as the Nile basin) in the network,» explains Dermody.

Finally, on choosing a heading based on the «water sky» [2] phenomenon, he turned the ship towards the nearest signs of open water and navigated successfully towards the open seas.

The idea that Mercury might have frozen water emerged in the 1990s, when Earth - based radar telescopes detected highly reflective regions inside several craters near Mercury's poles.

The orbital distance from Zavijava where a planet currently would be «comfortable» for Earth - type carbon - based lifeforms with liquid water on the planetary surface in the so - called habitable zone is centered near 1.87 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System.

It's based on the true story of Richard Phillips, a merchant mariner who transported goods through pirate infested waters near Somalia.

This may not be something you're able to do on a daily basis, but including it among your weekly to do list, if you live somewhere near water, will be tremendously healthy and fun for the dog.

The latest American Express Spending & Saving Tracker reveals that 42 percent of all vacationers prefer to be near the water, and 29 percent of those are choosing their summer destination based on its proximity to the beach.

Known more for water based activites, the nearest shops are in Wailea, but history abounds here.

Metung is a small and stylish destination located near the Gippsland Lakes and sandy beaches — a great base for water sports enthusiasts.

The way the water was spherically gathered in suspend animation, the return of turn - based battles, a reemergence of Eastern - styled characters, and the near - abandonment of pre-rendered backgrounds sent my friends and I into a wild frenzy over its potential.

Beyond their literal, medium - based association with the exhibition name, they nod to a city's growth near water sources, its construction and social productivity.

Net energy gain is going down (it's more energy intensive to pump oil out of deep water than out of a ground - based well under pressure) coupled with peak oil that is either here or near in time, and global warming mandates reducing carbon emissions.

As far as this historic period is concerned, the reconstruction of past temperatures based on deep boreholes in deep permafrost is one of the best past temperature proxies we have (for the global regions with permafrost — polar regions and mountainous regions)-- as a signal of average temperatures it's even more accurate than historic direct measurements of the air temperature, since the earth's upper crust acts as a near perfect conservator of past temperatures — given that no water circulation takes place, which is precisely the case in permafrost where by definition the water is frozen.

In that story, I focused on Lt. Dick Lawrence, a wildlife officer for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission based near West Palm Beach.

To see just how fast Arctic sea ice can shift, have a look at these photos, which I took just a few hours apart, showing a «lead» — a stretch of open water — that opened a few dozen yards from the Russian base camp serving tourists and scientists near the Pole.

And now, testing in or near military bases across the country reveals PFCs in the ground and drinking water.

This includes maintaining Argo, the main system for monitoring ocean heat content, and the development of Deep Argo to monitor the lower half of the ocean; the use of ship - based subsurface ocean temperature monitoring programs; advancements in robotic technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor waters adjacent to land (like islands or coastal regions); and further development of real - or near - real - time deep ocean remote sensing methods.

Carbon dioxide actually has a minuscule cooling effect, nowhere near as much as water vapour though That's genuine science because it is based on the laws of physics that are well proven over the centuries.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

The study observed a rapid thinning that appeared to have been driven by this new influx of warmer ocean water near the glacier base:

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The maps above combine data from the twin satellites of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) with other satellite and ground - based measurements to model the relative amount of water stored near the surface and underground as of September 17, 2012.

While the Enercon is land - based, the Britannia will be located in deep waters near the UK.

In this application, the model is assumed to be valid for slope and basin environments at water depths of several meters to several hundred meters that are near or just below storm - wave base, where storms, tides, bioturbation, and unsteady depositional rate are expected to exert measurable influence (noise) in sedimentary records.

Question (rhetorical): do you need to live near a body of water to have a beachy / water - based / nautical theme in decor?