Spanning

A beautiful rainbow is spanning the sky.

The U.S. Pacific Islands region includes more than 2,000 islands spanning millions of square miles of ocean. Rising air and ocean temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, changing frequencies and intensities of storms and drought, decreasing streamflows, rising sea levels, and changing ocean chemistry will threaten the sustainability of globally important and diverse ecosystems as well as local communities, livelihoods, and cultures.

The longest mountain range on Earth is called the mid-ocean ridge. Spanning 40,389 miles around the globe, it's truly a global landmark.

Fossil of plants, invertebrates, vertebrates, and trace fossils have been identified in Yellowstone National Park from more than 40 stratigraphic units spanning more than 540 million years from the Cambrian to the Cenozoic eras.

Spanning the years 1997 and 2012, Gen Zers are the first generation to be born into digital technology.

There is no bridge spanning the Amazon River.

Japan’s government announced Monday that the world’s third-largest economy grew at an annual pace of 21% in the third quarter spanning from July to September.

Researchers have described and named a new species of hominid in South Africa that lived nearly two million years ago, during a still mysterious period spanning the emergence of modern human beings.

Spanning 4,241 kilometres, the Mackenzie River is Canada's longest river.

Among the noted works on display, spanning from the late nineteenth to early 20th centuries, are Henri Matisse's "Purple Robe and Anemones" and Camille Pissarro's "The Highway."