Sentences with phrase «with rift valley»

To tackle the uncertainty in Central and South Rift Valley, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) in partnership with the Rift Valley Provincial Peace forum (PPF), Global Veterans for Peace and the District Peace Committees (DPC) and with the support of Green Cross Sweden has lead a «Joint County Peace Actors Consultative Peace Forum»

Iceland's hot rocks: In the middle of the spreading Atlantic is Iceland, a geological marvel with a rift valley, the original geyser and an energy supply that does not depend on burning carbon.

There is currently an outbreak in Niger and recently a Chinese man, who had visited the African Continent, got sick with Rift Valley fever upon returning to China.

Not exact matches

Did another in Kenya's Rift Valley region pay dowry with bitcoin instead of cash and cows?

Interestingly, Odinga's ability to negotiate with other groups recently surprised and alarmed G7 politicians when he met with elders of the Rift Valley, bypassing Ruto to ask forgiveness from Rift Valley elders for any previous wrongdoing.

Zipkin contrasts working with specular hematite — a heavy, glittery rock that's deep purple - red and has a high iron content — with material much lighter in both color and iron content from Kenya's volcanic Rift Valley: «They're both ochre, but elementally and chemically they are radically different.»

Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching of the Earth's crust and where the crust grows thin (called «non-hotspot intraplate volcanism»), such as in the African Rift Valley or the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes).

«With these results, we can add miscarriage to the list of known complications from Rift Valley fever.

Working in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, she focused her attention on two neighboring sites: a national park with lots of lions, and a privately owned conservancy with no lions.

He also leads excavations in the East African Rift Valley and codirects projects in China that compare early human behavior and environments in eastern Africa with those in eastern Asia.

Uplift associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and the environmental changes it produced have puzzled scientists for decades because the timing and starting elevation have been poorly constrained.

Researchers have long wondered if other upright walking species shared the Rift Valley of Africa with Lucy, particularly after they discovered that several types of hominins were alive at the same time after A. afarensis disappeared 3 million years ago.

The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region covered in moist forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where vegetation varied from cloud forest to desert scrub.

Let Her Rift With so much volcanic and tectonic activity going on there, the East African Rift Valley is a potent power source.

Apparently Director Justin Chadwick didn't think so when he took a skeleton production crew with him to Kenya's Rift Valley with the intention of telling Maruge's story.

The Special Pathogens Branch, part of The Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, deals with some of the really nasty stuff - diseases like Ebola, Rift Valley fever, and Lassa fever (and before you ask, a Rickettsial disease is one caused by any Rickettsia bacteria, which are carried by parasites such as ticks, fleas and lice, and cause diseases such as typhus).

For the last five years, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has been working in partnership with Green Cross Sweden to promote peace, reconciliation and environmental awareness in Kenya's Rift Valley region.

Our partnership with Green Cross Sweden started in 2005 with an aim of promoting sustainable peace and security in the Rift Valley.

With a small group, led by a local guide, we take a walk through the Great Rift Valley.

Surrounded by hot springs, geysers and the steep escarpment of the Rift Valley with its volcanic outcrops, the natural setting of the lakes provides an exceptional experience of nature.

Criterion (x): The Kenya Lake System is the single most important foraging site for the Lesser Flamingo in the world with about 1.5 million individuals moving from one lake to the other and provides the main nesting and breeding grounds for Great White Pelicans in the Great Rift Valley.

Africa is rife with luxury safari experiences, but Angama, with its 1,076 - square - foot suites entered through a butler's vestibule, glass - walled 180 - degree forever views over the Great Rift Valley, parquet floors, John Vogel furnishings and décor inspired by Maasai colors, textures and patterns, rises above the fray.

Nestled on the rim of the Great Rift Valley with stunning views over Lake Manyara, Mount Meru, and on a clear day, Mount Kilimanjaro, the lodge is set in lush green gardens, alive with birds.

Tarangire Treetops sits alone in the private game reserve bordering Tarangire National Park and the Masai Steppe amid rolling, baobab - studded hills, with views to Lake Manyara and the Rift Valley wall.

Simon Starling, Project for a Rift Valley Crossing, 2015 - 16 A canoe built to cross the Dead Sea Rift between Israel and Jordan using 90 kg of magnesium produced from 1900 litres of Dead Sea water, Production still the Dead Sea, 2016 (Acquired with the support of the Thornton Bequest)

As reported in the November 11, 2017, TWTW, at least in part, Antarctic ice melt appears to be resulting from geothermal activity below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with over 130 geothermal hot spots identified near a rift valley below the surface.

The Kikuyu escarpment forest with its great mixture of both large and small wildlife animals, birds and butterflies, has been the beautiful gateway to the Great Rift Valley until degradation trend struck.

The white - bearded De Brazza's monkeys were found in the Great Rift Valley, a place they had never been spotted before, Richard Leakey, a prominent white Kenyan credited with ending the slaughter of the nation's elephants, told Reuters in Nairobi.

Development of prototype disease and forage prediction models Work with partners in the development of prototype animal disease for instance Rift Valley Fever (RVF) prediction models.

After meeting with some initial success in Kenya, where, over the past 3 years, sites have been drilled to identify local hotspots, the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), along with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), will fund a new entity — the African Rift Geothermal Development Facility (ARGeo)-- to tap into the Rift Valley's vast, unexplored geothermal potential, according to SciDev.Net's Laura Garca.

The long body of Lake Turkana drops down along the Rift Valley from the Ethiopian border, extending 249 kilometers from north to south and 44 km at its widest point with a depth of 30 meters.

The new VR headset being developed by Google for smartphones will add extra support for VR technology in accordance with Android operating system, which will challenge Oculus Rift for an early lead on the latest platform of battle in Silicon Valley.