Sentences with phrase «ocean island nation»

The Aldabra banded snail, declared extinct seven years ago, was rediscovered on August 23 in the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles.

Not exact matches

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

Fish - farming companies such as HiddenFjord, in the town of Sørvágur, are the lifeblood of the Faroe Islands, a small nation in the North Atlantic Ocean halfway between Iceland and Norway.

Served raw and sliced thin, with a squeeze of lime juice, a sprinkling of seven different types of crushed peppers, roasted seaweed flakes, toasted sesame seeds and sea salt from Kiribati, a Pacific island nation that will soon be engulfed by the ocean because of climate change.

The Pacific island nation of Palau made waves in the ocean conservation world earlier this year with an announcement that they plan on turning their territorial waters into a no - take marine protected area.

But a third species, M. nesiota, lives on a volcanic island nation in the Indian Ocean known as the Comoros.

Remote island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have for many years been considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change and, in particular, rising sea levels.

New Zealand An island nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,500 kilometers (some 900 miles) east of Australia.

Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located on the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.

(In English and Spanish with subtitles) The Island President (PG for violence, smoking and mature themes) Climate change documentary chronicling the effort of Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed to save his low - lying island nation from being sinking into the Indian Ocean as a consequence of global waIsland President (PG for violence, smoking and mature themes) Climate change documentary chronicling the effort of Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed to save his low - lying island nation from being sinking into the Indian Ocean as a consequence of global waisland nation from being sinking into the Indian Ocean as a consequence of global warming.

New Zealand is an island nation in the south - west Pacific Ocean consisting of the North and South Islands, approximately 1,500 kilometres east of Australia.

This gives the small nation the same atmosphere as an island but without being in the middle of the ocean.

Maldives is an enchanting island nation floating in the Indian Ocean, formed by a double chain of 26 atolls, with approximately 200 inhabited islands.

An ideal locale for beach - going visitors, the African nation of Seychelles is comprised of 115 smaller islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers a wide variety of water sports, including diving, snorkeling, sailing, windsurfing, and boating.

Indonesia is a Rorschach test of islands between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, a nation of roughly 230 million sliced in two by the equator.

They exchanged ideas for more joint approaches as island nations dependent on tourism, and they all agreed on the need for long - haul tourism destinations such as the Caribbean islands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main inislands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main inIslands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industry.

Sri Lanka is an island nation located south of India, in the Indian Ocean.

When you've had your fill of ocean depths, spot another of the nation's treasures: exotic birds that make this island their home.

The camp resort is situated on the barrier island between the North River and the Atlantic Ocean, just north of downtown St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city.

With our current fixation on rising sea levels, forced migration of island nations, and ocean acidification, we are reminded that the human footprint is indelibly recorded on planet Earth.

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

The fact that it is now showing up in Hawai`i in double - digit numbers around breeding season is huge news and potentially a major development in the efforts to protect this species from extinction,» said Dr. George Wallace, Vice President for Oceans and Islands at American Bird Conservancy, the nation's leading bird conservation organization.

A tiny island country in the western Pacific Ocean has approved the creation of an enormous marine reserve that will protect 80 percent of the Palau nation's oOcean has approved the creation of an enormous marine reserve that will protect 80 percent of the Palau nation's oceanocean.

The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace, according to several news reports.

Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

AP Media Shocker: Sea level threat revised: Scientific data challenge fears of sunken islands — May 22, 2009 Scientists have long warned that the Maldives, an archipelago nation of nearly 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, will be wiped out by rising sea levels in the coming decades.

Scientists have long warned that the Maldives, an archipelago nation of nearly 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, will be wiped out by rising sea levels in the coming decades.

President Barack Obama emphasized the importance of lending a hand to island nations who are on the brink of becoming enveloped by the ocean.

So if an island nation is submerged beneath the ocean, does it maintain its membership in the United Nations?

United Nations Ambassador Phillip Muller of the Marshall Islands said there is no sense of urgency to find not only those answers, but also to address the causes of climate change, which many believe to be responsible for rising ocean levels.

International legal experts are discovering climate change law, and the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is a case in point: The Polynesian archipelago is doomed to disappear beneath the ocean.

«Rhode Island is proud to be home to the nation's first offshore wind farm — and I'm proud to be the only governor in America who can say we have steel in the water and blades spinning over the ocean,» said Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo.

«The International Energy Agency projects that, unless societies begin building alternatives to carbon - emitting energy technologies over the next five years, the world is doomed to a warmer climate, harsher weather, droughts, famine, water scarcity, rising sea levels, loss of island nations, and increasing ocean acidification.

Unless global temperatures are stabilized, higher seas from melting ice sheets and mountain glaciers, combined with the heat - driven expansion of ocean water itself, will eventually lead to the displacement of millions of people as low - lying coastal areas and island nations are inundated.

Kiribati, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, has thesmallest carbon footprint.

Earlier this fall, I crossed the Pacific Ocean from the island nation of Kiribati, which I am privileged to serve as President, to visit the United States.

«However,» Sentman notes, «if we can't figure things out in this remote part of the Pacific Ocean, what does that mean fore more densely populated coastlines and island nations?»

OK, so sure... this rental is in Vanuatu, a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean, in the middle of nowhere, 1,090 miles east of northern Australia.

The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu is urging the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming, before the island - state sinks beneath the ocean's lapping waves.

Island nations will suffer severe flooding or completely disappear under the rising waters; they include the Bahamas, many of the Caribbean islands, Cyprus and Malta in the Mediterranean, and several Archipelagos around the Pacific Ocean.

And while many of the collaborators may be tiny island nations with modest terrestrial areas, their expansive exclusive economic zones (EEZ) effectively make them massive ocean states.

ABSTRACT Climate change (CC) and its impacts are gaining momentum which threatens the integrity and security of Pacific Island nations» natural ecosystems, economies and way of life that is intricately woven into the ocean, forests and the land.

And political change is not the only source of instability: global warming has placed the tiny island nation of Tuvalu under a serious threat of disappearing beneath the Pacific Ocean and taking the popular.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal tender.

The development represents the latest step in a wider effort to make Mauritius — an island nation in the Indian Ocean with an estimated population of 1.2 million people — a hub for blockchain startups.