(This reinforces the determination of many environmental groups, and indeed the entire EU, to bring us in within the two degrees target). This moment comes as the hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon locked up in Arctic permafrost - particularly in Siberia - enter the melt zone, releasing globally warming methane and carbon dioxide in immense quantities.
Termites are well-known for their ability to bore through and consume wood in immense quantities, sometimes causing damage to human-built structures.
Next-generation sequencing technologies are yielding genome-scale data in immense quantities: genomes and transcriptomes of viruses, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes; single-cell isolates and clonal cultures; diverse cell types under normal, stress and disease conditions; meta-genomes and meta-transcriptomes.
Instead, he talks about 'populating' his warehouses with the work that he produces in such immense quantities that even if he wanted to sell, the market couldn't absorb all that he creates, so fecund and prolific is his imagination".
That phenomenon, in turn, produces immense quantities of phytoplankton that are the basis for large populations of commercially valuable marine animals.
Like the other forms of industrial fishing, longlines, some of which submerge thousands of hooks in the water, yield immense quantities of bycatch, or unwanted fish, most of which is severely injured or dead.
The Persian Gulf receives only small amounts of river-borne sediment except in the northwest, where immense quantities of silt are deposited by the Tigris, Euphrates, and Kārūn rivers and other smaller streams as they empty into the gulf, by way of the Shatt Al-'Arab.
The unprecedented rise in land use area for oil palm plantations in Malaysia and other palm-producing nations in the world have led to the immense quantities of wastes generated annually (Liew et al. 2015).
In the northern United States, too, rhubarb cultivation flourished, notably in Michigan and around large cities. "Immense quantities are brought to the markets of greater New York by New Jersey and Long Island farm gardeners," declared a rhubarb manual published in 1901.
The end of the American Revolution in 1783 occasioned the manufacture and circulation of immense quantities of British copper tokens designed for the American trade.
The same was true of the kingdom of Urartu in Armenia, from which, however, the troops returned with immense quantities of lumber and building stone.
