Sentences with phrase «as sea level rise»

Both are projected to face increased exposure to deeper and more severe flooding as sea levels rise.

To pump even more water as sea level rise accelerates, you'd need even more energy.

It's long been claimed that they will eventually disappear as the sea level rises because of global warning, but when that might happen has been unclear.

As long as sea level rises fairly slowly it is easily adapted to over time and may provide net benefits.

It was cut off from the continent beginning 11,000 years ago as the sea level rose.

What started as a gimmick could become a tragic reality in coming decades, as sea level rise reduces the entire country to a virtual state.

The city has been developing storm surge protection plans as sea level rises.

The oceans are the largest active carbon sink on the planet, covering more than 70 per cent of its surface area, and are predicted to grow as sea levels rise.

Many small island states and African nations that are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change such as sea level rise have demanded this target.

[10:31 a.m. Updated In a conversation about the storm with Malcolm Bowman of Stony Brook late last night, we mused on whether Irene's impact would serve as a wakeup call prompting the city, which will face rising damage risk as sea levels rise in this century, to seriously consider storm surge barriers like those on the Thames.

As for the final deathblow — the killer that claimed the last holdouts isolated on the islands as sea levels rose — that may always remain a mystery.

Consider how many millions of people are at risk as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and more extreme flooding occurs.

Barrier islands, beaches, sand dunes, salt marshes, mangrove stands, and mud and sand flats retreat inland as sea level rises, unless there are obstructions along the retreat path.

During this time, precipitation and meltwater seeped into the exposed shelf areas and filled water tables, which were then covered up by the ocean as sea levels rose again.

A simulation of the Siberian continental margin after glacial sea level drop and exposure to the cold atmosphere, snapshot as sea level rises during the deglaciation.

The melting of the Himalayan glaciers is expected to displace millions of people from low - lying land as sea levels rise, and will disrupt river flows and irrigation of agricultural land.

Scientists might simply point out that storm surges will continue to break records as sea levels rise — that's simple addition — more water = more encroachment up a shore's slope.

Coastal defenses are becoming more important as sea levels rise, he notes, and climate models suggest some parts of the planet will become stormier.

INTERACTIVE MAP: Explore the hundreds of US coastal communities that will face chronic inundation and possible retreat as sea levels rise.

NBC news reported the Pacifica event as «a brief window into what the future holds as sea levels rise from global warming, a sort of a crystal ball for climate change.»

The responses of humans to climate change — how humans use resources when they become more scarce, or migrate as sea levels rise — will have a major impact.

But the program already faces limitations, ones that will only be magnified as sea levels rise and the potential value of strategic retreat grows.

Mass Audubon strategically established this wildlife sanctuary, comprised of more than 50 % upland, in part to accommodate migration of the abutting salt marsh migration as the sea levels rise.

As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat.

The information they've unearthed about intense sea surface cooling is crucial as sea levels rise, the researchers said.

Sandy, which hit the East Coast in the first six months of his tenure, forced him to confront some of the social vulnerabilities of managing people as sea levels rise.

Along the coast of southern California, for example, low outflows increase the likelihood that saltwater could encroach into an aquifer, particularly as sea levels rise.

That would let new inland marshes form as the sea level rises.

World Bank economist Stephane Hallegatte, along with a team of scientists and engineers, studied 136 cities across the world to see how each would fare as sea levels rise between 2005 and 2050.

The approach recognizes that the country's famed network of dikes and dams will come under increasing stress as sea levels rise.

New Zealand, said Topping, is already concerned that it might have to accept refugees from low - lying Pacific islands that become uninhabitable as sea levels rise.

Does anyone else see an irony in the Maldives building up islands or constructing new ones as sea levels rise...

As sea levels rise following a tectonic shift, a microbiologist takes on the biblical responsibility of preserving as much animal DNA as she can.

Incorporating ecosystems into disaster management will be even more critical as sea level rise and climate change become more pronounced.

So a reader (and VF readers are valuable readers) is treated to an extensive series of breathless, urgent articles on climate change one month (including a picture of East Hampton submerging as sea levels rise), and then some months later, a four page gatefold ad of a Ranger Rover on a beach.

See the links below, but also be sure to click here for an excellent interactive «what if» graphic charting the changed geography of a host of American cities as sea levels rise:

As far as the sea level rising, I'm in S Florida about 12 ft above sea level so I have to feel that Al Gore was wrong in his math but scared some people who might be wondering if they'll be walking in water even if they are now seven miles from the beach.

At this same time, the sea levels did rise and drop matching the MWP and Little Ice Age but again not as significant as the sea level rise in the last 100 years or so.