Sentences with phrase «because coastal development»

Curaçao has some of the healthiest reefs in the Caribbean, and that is not because of marine reserves, that's not because of strong pollution controls, it's not because coastal development hasn't happened,» Johnson says in the film.

Not exact matches

Textbook cumulonimbus - formed summer thunderstorms are fairly rare [25] in Los Angeles, because the atmosphere over the coastal basin is generally too stable and dry, especially during summer, to allow the strong vertical development necessary for mature cumulonimbus clouds.

Because the course is not part of any real estate development or urban area, it allows players to enjoy their game in completely natural surroundings with uninterrupted views of sea and mountain in the spectacular setting provided by Spain's Levante region — the southeastern Mediterranean shore with its coastal range.

I Love Marina Beach BECAUSE our village is still a pristine haven for nature and eco-sensitive developments that care for the environment, within a coastal strip that is fast becoming over developed for the sake of money.

Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Belize) was put on the Danger List mainly because of the problem of mangrove cutting and excessive development in the property which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996 as the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, with offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries.

Because these are coastal whales, any protection of their migration route threatens industrial development of the continental shelf.

But arts - led developments are deep - rooted along this stretch of coast: in Margate, where the kernel for the Turner Contemporary gallery can be traced right back to 1994; in Folkestone, where the Creative Foundation, led by entrepreneur Roger De Haan, was taking hold at the turn of the millennium; and across many smaller coastal towns and villages, from Broadstairs to Dungeness, where artists have settled because of the quality of the light, following the late Derek Jarman, who moved there in the mid-1980s.

While it is true that climate change poses an enormous risk for the future because of coral bleaching and more acidic oceans, the fact is that reefs protected from overfishing, excessive coastal development and pollution are more resilient to these stresses.

Republican lawmakers quashed the 2010 Coastal Resources Commission scientific report «because it would hurt coastal development,» according to the News and Observer.

Local governments and actors may face difficulties in identifying the most suitable and efficient approaches because of the diversity of possible approaches, from infrastructure development to «softer» approaches such as integrated watershed and coastal zone management.

Ocean - lovers from all walks of life came together to create marine protected areas because MPAs have been proven to enhance the resilience of ocean ecosystems to withstand cumulative impacts of human and natural stressors (e.g., pollution, coastal development, fishing pressure, climate change, etc.).

However, O'Brien and colleagues found that this result is highly uncertain because the development and incidence of coastal marine fog are dependent upon interactions among three systems — atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial — which are each subject to broad ranges of variability.

i.e. the SST influence maybe harder to discern in the data because of the coastal development contamination which clearly dominates the longer timescale changes.