Sentences with phrase «by preventing erosion»

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Trump's positions are further complicated by a recent Politico reportthat shows his organization cited global warming as justification to build a coastal structure to prevent erosion at a golf course in Ireland.

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

He says preventing more erosion and rebuilding Tonawanda Creek Road is expected to cost upwards of $ 6 million - or 10 times the cost of repaving Old Lake Shore Road, which is being covered by state aid.

They prevent shore erosion by acting as the equivalent of a 48 - inch rock, without it sitting as a rock that size.

But a new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Bianca Charbonneau finds that the invasive plant does have one advantage over its native counterpart, Ammophila breviligulata, or American beach grass: the invasive is better at preventing erosion of dunes during big storms.

The purpose of Amendment 23 was to begin to reverse a trend of more than ten years of declining real funding of Colorado public education by gradually restoring education funding to the equivalent of 1988 levels, as adjusted for inflation, by 2010 - 11, and to prevent further erosion of education finance from the effects of TABOR and the Gallagher Amendment.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

Mangroves also help prevent erosion by stabilizing sediments with their tangled root systems.

Life on land: Besides the reduction of greenhouse gases, the project assist environmental sustainability by slowing deforestation, which also prevents soil erosion, the destruction of natural habitats and the loss of biodiversity

Bamboo farms help to prevent erosion through the stabilization on the dirt by their roots.