It was steeper here, and more thickly wooded, and the earth underfoot was gravelly and slick.
The great red hills stand desolate and the earth has torn away like flesh.
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, " said Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister.
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the earth's solid surface can be made to stand in for that of other planets, too.
New Orleans lies between the lake's water and the Earth's center where gravity wants that water to go.
The two are as distinct as planet Earth and the earth around your begonias, and they should be distinguished in print.
And the earth stations, because they transmit, might have to be licensed.
The observatories will monitor regions of the galaxy continuously, in order to detect exoplanets as they pass between their host star and the Earth.
And the earth would be spared a huge amount of emitted carbon: by one calculation, as much as 75m tonnes over the next 30 years.
These craft will study the interaction between the solar wind (the breeze of electrically charged particles emitted by the sun) and the earth's magnetic field.
But those lower-energy X-rays can be further distorted by layers of gas between the black hole and the Earth, and previous spin observations have been contentious.
Other sites such as the Royal Armouries in Leeds and the Earth Centre in Doncaster which have struggled to reach visitor targets have had to modify aspects of their businesses to attract the crowds.
Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Mr Jan Eliasson, and the Director of Columbia University and The Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
The loss of observations of key Earth system components and processes will weaken the ability to understand and forecast changes arising from interactions and feedbacks within the Earth system and limit the data and information available to users and decision makers.
By April 7th, when most of its population had fled, L'Aquila was like a city that had been extensively shelled: a ghost town in which almost the only sounds were of house alarms, ambulance sirens and the earth-movers of rescue workers.
If this were to change, and the Earth became unstable, then parts of the world could experience much greater temperature swings than we are used to through any given year, with freezing Arctic temperatures in winter followed by blazing hot temperatures in summer.
The spaceship, which will carry six passengers and be based in New Mexico, will be hoisted by a carrier craft to 50, 000 feet before blasting on its own to suborbit, where passengers will float weightless about the cabin and see space and the Earth through large windows.
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At this point in space, the gravity of the Earth and the Sun act in such a way that the telescope will be stationary relative to the Earth and Sun.
Scientists know the Universe is governed by 13 fundamental constants of physics, and the relationship between the volume of the Earth and the Sun is 1310.
Supervise the development of outreach activities in the Earth sciences especially through the development of standard setting mechanisms for international cooperation and networking in the creation of Geoparks to raise the awareness of decision makers and the general public on the evolution of the Earth and its resources and the important role geoscientists have in the sustainable development of our planet.
Many industrialized nations are trying to use less coal, oil and natural gas to lower carbon dioxide levels, which is warming the atmosphere and changing the Earth's climate.
Garan, a NASA spaceflyer on his second spaceflight, is the creator of the blog Fragile Oasis, which he launched before leaving Earth as a way to share his experiences (and the experiences of other astronauts) to inspire people to cherish the beauty and wonder of the Earth.
Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy and the Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program at The University of Texas at Austin.
Such data provides the high resolution details from which we can see how the Earth's structures have formed, measures the exact size and shape of the volcano and provides a vital snapshot of the Earth's active and sometimes violent volcanic system in action.
Humans spread out, exterminated the easy prey and probably the competing hominids and populated the livable earth.
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The farmers' system and philosophy, he insists, have condemned them to go forth and multiply, peopling the earth and expanding their domain to the detriment of hunter-gatherers, whose philosophy, based on respect for nature and for the equality and freedom of each individual, including children, was no match for the rapacity, technology and productivity of the newcomers.
For an unforgettable experience, take a night walk to the arched cave and waterfall at Natural Bridge under the western ramparts of the Springbrook plateau, which is alight with fairy-like blue-green lights given off by the millions of bioluminescent glow worms that line the cave roof and the steep earth banks along the rainforest path.
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