Sentences with phrase «causing coastal damage»

Hurricanes are causing coastal damage as they come onshore at greater and greater velocities.

The quake caused a stir in Tonga, but it's not clear yet whether any resulting waves caused coastal damage or injuries.

Not exact matches

The submarine was designed to «destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time,» the BBC reported.

Excluding EU fishing vessels from the UK is very likely to result in the EU slapping down high tariffs on fish, causing huge damage to the fishing industry and coastal communities in the UK.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

On top of that, the coastal areas hit hardest — the Louisiana wetlands — are already under acute stress from subsidence, erosion and the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

«Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world's coastal regions if they do not adapt to sea - level rise.»

They have the capacity to cause damaging flooding in coastal areas, especially when they coincide with high spring tides.

Less than a year after Hurricane Matthew raked the East Coast, killing 34 people and causing $ 10 billion in damage in the U.S. alone, coastal areas are once again preparing for the onset of the Atlantic hurricane season.

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

That trend is projected to continue as the planet warms and could put coastal cities at risk and cause trillions of dollars in damage.

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Both non-profit organizations were hit hard by a hurricane that caused significant damage to coastal areas of New York and New Jersey.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

From the ocean acidification that threatens shellfish, a food source Oregonians love, to the coastal erosion that leads to infrastructure damage and may cause coastal residents to move inland.

It highlights several implications for this sector, including altered seasonality, desertification and floods, damages caused by increased incidence of natural hazards, coastal erosion and loss of beach areas, and loss of natural and archeological attractions.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

In the face of higher sea levels and more intense storms, coastal communities face greater risk of rapid beach erosion from destructive storms like the intense nor» easter of April 2007 that caused this damage.

The city claims in its lawsuit that coastal flooding will cause more than $ 38 million in damages and estimates its overall economic vulnerability at more than $ 106 million.

Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18

But the damage caused to coastal communities there was replicated — and in some cases exceeded — across western France,» Professor Masselink says.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

Ocean acidification caused by carbon pollution further damages fisheries, and coastal storms increase risks to villages and fishing fleets.

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

For example, earlier snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains exposes plants to increased frost damage, (e.g., Inouye, 2008), and declining summer fog causes stress to coastal redwoods (Johnstone and Dawson, 2010).

In recent years, intense hurricanes have caused extensive coastal habitat damage and loss in the Gulf of Mexico.

Other effects of global warming would include more storms of the kind that displaced millions of people and caused $ 15 billion in damage to coastal provinces (according to reports from Xinhua in August 2006).

If you live in a coastal area, you may not be covered for damage caused by storm surge (usually defined as «a rush of water onshore caused by strong winds pushing on the ocean's surface) and / or movements caused by the sea (usually with the exception of tsunamis).

Many people think that only coastal residents need to worry about flooding, but snow melt is a very common cause of flood damage.

Hurricanes claim lives every year throughout the coastal states and cause billions of dollars in damages as well.

Even without epic storms, Horton said climate - related sea level increases can cause massive problems for coastal areas because it increases frequent flooding, which causes erosion, contaminates drinking water supplies and aquifers, damages farmland and decreases habitat for fisheries, wildlife and plants.