The scroll represents the deed to the earth which was lost to Satan at the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.

The lowest division represents a period when the heavens hung low over the earth, which was inhabited by animals that were not known to the islanders.

The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation which shoots forth in spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest ; hence she is also associated with spring and with the seeds of the fruits of the fields.

Various earth orbits drawn to scale ; the inner cyan ( light blue ) ring represents low Earth orbit ( LEO ).

The earth is rotating, so this angular displacement represents time.

Each square on the map is 2 cm by 2 cm ( 4 cm < sup > 2 </ sup >) and represents 1 km < sup > 2 </ sup > on the surface of the earth.

Each square on the map is 4 cm by 4 cm ( 16 cm < sup > 2 </ sup >) and represents 1 km < sup > 2 </ sup > on the surface of the earth.

All have flat roofs, and we gather from one of the bas-reliefs, which represents a town on fire, that these roofs were made, just as they now are, with thick layers of earth on strong beams.

Noah's three-deck ark represents this three-level Hebrew cosmos in miniature: the heavens, the earth, and the waters beneath.

Chisholm is seen levitating above cracked mud inside a room with wooden walls as the floor blooms into plant life ; she represents earth.

They represent the journey of life: Grand Bois represents the rich earth that you spring from and the dark woods you stumble through, Maitre Carrefour represents the various roads and paths you choose to travel on, and Baron Cimitère represents the end of the trip.

He represents the earth and the element earth, though Earth is usually the goddess Prithvi rather than a god.

In Haida mythology, the figure represents a boy gathering wood, who was taken up from the earth as a punishment for disrespect.

Kishar represents the earth as a counterpart to Anshar, the sky, and can be seen as an earth mother goddess.

In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, the kobold represents the Greek element of earth:

Cauldrons symbolize not only the Goddess but also represent the womb ( due to the fact that it holds something ) and on an altar it represents earth because it is a working tool.

Scale represents the real world as translated onto a map, relating distance on a map image and the corresponding distance on earth.

* The square base represents earth

In the traditional aarti ceremony, the flower represents the earth ( solidity ), the water and accompanying handkerchief correspond with the water element ( liquidity ), the lamp or candle represents the fire component ( heat ), the peacock fan conveys the precious quality of air ( movement ), and the yak-tail fan represents the subtle form of ether ( space ).

It is believed that early in the Earth's history, the evolution of photosynthetic plants altered the global atmosphere of the earth, changing the ancient atmosphere by oxidation.

He has questioned the link between second-hand smoke and lung cancer, and has been an outspoken opponent of the mainstream scientific view on climate change ; he argues there is no evidence that increases in carbon dioxide produced by human beings is causing global warming and that the temperature of the earth has always varied.

At this time, the earth entered a period of global cooling that had a dehumidifying effect on the main early human habitats in East and Central Africa.

According to Jewish tradition, the messianic era will be one of global harmony, a future era of universal peace and brotherhood on earth, and one conducive to the furtherment of the knowledge of the Creator.

Most scientists and conservationists agree that no place on earth is completely untouched by humanity, either due to past occupation by indigenous people, or through global processes such as climate change.

Environmental scientists work on subjects like the understanding of earth processes, evaluating alternative energy systems, pollution control and mitigation, natural resource management, and the effects of global climate change.

Another one of the founders of the WSF, Cándido Grzybowski has said of the annual meetings, " The numerous recent crises are expressions of the contradictions and limitations of the form of global capitalism that has been imposed on humanity and the earth.

The, developed by the Japanese government's initiative " Earth Simulator Project ", was a highly parallel vector supercomputer system for running global climate models to evaluate the effects of global warming and problems in solid earth geophysics.

Their newscast resembles Fox News, and they report about news strikingly similar to that on earth, but in a factual science orientated terminology ( i. e. Coneheads-style ), thereby making for example fun of the public obsession with sexual acts of public figures by referring to the global importance of touching reproductive organs.

Working in all the world ’ s oceans, their broad research agenda includes: geological activity deep within the earth ; plant, animal, and microbial populations and their interactions in the ocean ; coastal erosion ; ocean circulation ; ocean pollution ; and global climate change.

" in a section about the argument on global warming, saying how it is practically impossible to get everyone on earth to agree on one thing.

This discovery will be the largest and purest rare earth mineral discovery in U. S. history and investment by both Wall Street and the U. S. government with speed up its impact on global rare earth markets.

* DCI Global Partnerships, the community and work associated with DCI Trust — a UK charity committed to mobilising Christian leaders, providing micro-loans for the economically poor, networking a global Christian constituency and giving to bless the poor of the earth.

As satellite remote sensing and especially the Global Positioning System rose in importance, true global models were developed which, while not as accurate for regional work, best approximate the earth as a whole.

Earth Day Network members focus on environmental education ; local, national, and global policies ; public environmental campaigns ; and organizing national and local earth day events to promote activism and environmental protection.

Global Hawk, with its long loiter time and global reach, has some of the attributes of a satellite in a lower earth orbit than would be feasible for a true orbiter.

World conscience is the universalist idea that with ready global communication, all people on earth will no longer be morally estranged from one another, whether it be culturally, ethnically, or geographically ; instead they will conceive ethics from the utopian point of view of the universe, eternity or infinity, rather than have their duties and obligations defined by forces arising solely within the restrictive boundaries of ' blood and territory.

Soddy wrote in popular magazines that radioactivity was a potentially “ inexhaustible ” source of energy, and offered a vision of an atomic future where it would be possible to “ transform a desert continent, thaw the frozen poles, and make the whole earth one smiling Garden of Eden .” The promise of an “ atomic age ,” with nuclear energy as the global, utopian technology for the satisfaction of human needs, has been a recurring theme ever since.

With earth ’ s depleting natural resources, the need for green infrastructure, a logistics industry forced into just-in-time deliveries, growing global demand, regulatory policy governed by performance results, and a host of other items high priority is put on knowledge ; and research becomes paramount.

Although some of the most important mathematical tools for dealing with spherical waveguides were developed by G. N. Watson in 1918, it was Winfried Otto Schumann who first studied the theoretical aspects of the global resonances of the earth – ionosphere waveguide system, known today as the Schumann resonances.

Warfield also linked his views to an unusual understanding of, premised on Meyer's exegesis of the same passage, which presupposed a global conquest of the gospel in order for the supposed prophecy in that verse to be realized, which inexorably leads to a literal fulfillment of the third petition of the Lord's Prayer: " Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

The latter scenario is the more dangerous, as the lighter particles from the fire would take weeks or months to fall back to earth, and could be distributed by jet streams around the world, making the cooling a global event.