They may lie at the origin of major slope instabilities (such as the Storegga slide), creating Tsunami dangers and may be critical if the hydrocarbon industry moves to deeper slopes.
One IGCP project in 2000 was even at the origin of a new field: medical geology, the science dealing with the impact of our natural environment on human and animal health.
"The new and unique aspect of this operation is that we acted against those who benefit from this trade at the point of origin of the trafficking, " he added later.
She said the "firewall" marked in the UN climate process at its origin in 1992, which divided the world into Annex One - rich countries with commitments to reduce emissions - and everyone else, must be maintained.
Such an approach makes fuel and feedstock production facilities the focus of accounting, he suggests, while treating the CO2 emissions from fuel end-use at face value regardless of the origin of the fuel carbon (bio or fossil).
But then he does something unique in the world: While the rums start in the traditional fashion, produced in local distilleries and barrel-aged in the tropical sun, they are plucked from their country of origin at just the right moment and brought to the Ferrand estate in France, where they are refined for several more months in small French oak Ferrand cognac barrels.
American said it told the Federal Aviation Administration that it was holding its flights, and the FAA instituted a nationwide "ground stop, " holding all American flights at their origin airports until the order was canceled at most airports at about 5 p.m.
Per Article 7 (b) (ii) of the Convention, States Parties undertake, at the request of the State Party "of origin", to take appropriate steps to recover and return any such cultural property imported after the entry into force of this Convention in both States concerned, provided, however, that the requesting State shall pay just compensation to an innocent purchaser or to a person who has valid title to that property.
East London singer and rapper Plan B won two prizes at the 17th Music of Black Origin ceremony.
Why do people rush to get free games on Origin while at the same time pay for games they could basically get for free in the Humble Indie Bundle?
FORBES: EA Accidentally Gives Away Free Games With Origin Store Coupon Glitch [Updated]
"The agreement foresees a series of specific actions to inform the consumer about the origin of the meat both through the internet and at the supermarkets, " he said.
It took a prolonged war of words and a nasty public fight at the annual general meeting of Atos Origin, a computer-services firm, for Pardus Capital and a London-based hedge fund, Centaurus Capital, to win board seats at the end of May (Atos's chairman was also ousted).
On the one hand, you have a glitch allowing users to essentially exploit EA and get a bunch of the games they offer on Origin for free, and unsurprisingly people jump at the opportunity.
FORBES: EA Accidentally Gives Away Free Games With Origin Store Coupon Glitch [Updated]
Only a few outsiders have been allowed a peak at the project, which Bezos calls Blue Origin.
From there, he was able to pinpoint the origin of enemy fire at a nearby village, Urmul, and at an Afghan National Police checkpoint that had been seized by the insurgents.
The revival of interest in the origin of autumnal reds began with work by William Hoch and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But they alone don't explain the proliferation of cafes serving single-origin coffee or the indie-minded designers selling their wares at stores such as Good Cho's in 44 South Village and Huashan's 1914 Connections.
The labelling of the origin of meat and the traceability of the products will be high on the agenda at the EU ministers' meeting.
Quova claims to be able to identify web users' country of origin with 98% accuracy, and their city of origin (at least for users in the United States) 85% of the time.
The origin of this effect may lie at the boundary between the mantle, made up of viscous rock that extends 2, 900 km (1, 800 miles) below the crust, and the outer core, which is thought to be liquid iron with the consistency of water.
She was one of the nominees at last week's Music of Black Origin (Mobo) awards in London.
"His intimacy with Madame Deviers-Joncour should not have left him in any doubt about the origin of the considerable funds she had at her disposal, " he told the court.
There's an interesting explanation of the origin of the term "phishing" at the Web site for the Anti-Phishing Working Group and it seems to have nothing to do with hippies.
And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.
Regardless of where the future takes Facebook -- whether life as a publicly traded commodity is more about stuffy board meetings than spur-of-the moment handshake deals -- Wednesday's report provided at least one more glimpse at the hoodie-wearing, authority-flouting CEO whose origin story has literally become the stuff of Hollywood storytelling.
Colpan, a chemical engineer of Tatar origin, wrote his doctoral thesis on DNA cleansing at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in 1983.
The origin of this was a funny one-liner told at computer conferences in the 1990s.
That worries many moderates among the 700, 000 Canadians of Indian origin, already alarmed at signs of a Sikh extremist revival.
With its large population of Pakistani origin, it has much at stake in helping to maintain the stability of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
At one point, Mr. Bencheneb boasted about the man's Canadian origin to a group of Algerian workers, one of the employees recalled.
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