Sentences with phrase «change coastal living»

Seattle - based map - maker and urban planner Jeffrey Linn has released a series of city maps including one for Vancouver, showing how rising sea levels might drastically change coastal living.

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A sea change is when people move from the city to start a new life by the sea, generally a coastal village.

The researchers are careful not to imply that phosphorus necessarily caused the chain reaction, but in sedimentary rock taken from coastal areas, the nutrient has marked the spot where that burst of life and climate change took off.

The muddying of coastal waters by climate change could drastically increase levels of neurotoxic mercury in sea life, contaminating food supplies.

«If one lives in Canada's north or in our coastal communities, or really in any community that is subject to extreme weather conditions, and the resulting floods, droughts, and wildfires, the effects of climate change itself, can not be denied.

Because of their dependency on coastal environments, the changes in the sea level which occurred at the end of the Jurassic period — around 145 million years ago — had a drastic impact upon the environments they lived in.

«However, combined effects of nutrient loading and climate change are greatly increasing the number and size of «dead zones» in the open ocean and coastal waters, where oxygen is too low to support most marine life.»

We have yet to publicly announce this, but we just bought a house in coastal San Diego and as someone who has been fighting against the traditional American dream for the past 10 years of my life, this was a HUGE life - changing decision for me.

Though Cannon Beach did not experience the fatalities or devastation of other coastal communities, it was a shocking occurrence that changed how those who live at the coast react to a tsunami.

My friend and sometime fishing partner Carl Safina, the marine scientist, conservationist and writer (who lives on Long Island), wrote a hard - edged piece for the CNN Web site calling out coastal communities and the nation for complacency in the face of climate change and rising seas.

I know where I live, in the Pacific coastal fog belt, we're not experiencing much local change.

«Polar melting may cause dislocation for those who live in low - lying coastal areas, but it will also lead to safe commercial shipping in formerly inhospitable northern seas,» says Jeff Jacoby in his Boston Globe article titled, «There Are Benefits to Climate Change.»

Dorothy Atwood, one of the course participants, notes that «the reality of increasingly dangerous climate change — the rising temperatures and sea levels; the droughts, floods and stronger storms; the acidic oceans; the increasing forest fires; the expanding health dangers; the economic costs of floods, drought, hurricanes and sunken coastal cities — are very real to us and demand our personal and group response because it makes both environmental and economic sense to change the way we live and solve these problems.»

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With impacts on Arctic coastal communities and increases in maritime activities, both observations of changes underway and predictions at the scale of less than a week to several months out are of importance to the research community and those living and operating in ice - covered seas.

In the case of global warming, the innocent are likely to include residents of south Louisiana and other coastal communities whose lives will be disrupted by sea level rise and other climate change effects, and by the loss of species, he said.

«The threat of devastating oil spills associated with Trump's risky offshore drilling proposal puts coastal economies and ways of life at risk while worsening the consequences of climate change.

Therefore, considering climate variability and climate change when carrying out life cycle assessments of industry, infrastructure, transport and network industries is of utmost importance, since the need to locate most of these industries and networks in coastal areas will remain and probably increase with human coastal development.

People living in low - lying coastal zones and flood plains are probably most at risk from climate change impacts in Asia.

Following the NASA story, Edward Hannah, reader in climate change at the University of Sheffield, wrote in the Guardian that «the Greenland ice sheet is living on borrowed time», and that «tens of centimetres» of sea - level rise «would make many coastal communities more vulnerable to flooding and storm surges».

These changes and other climatic changes have affected and will continue to affect human health, water supply, agriculture, transportation, energy, coastal areas, and many other sectors of society, with increasingly adverse impacts on the American economy and quality of life.3

Based on the results of researches and scientific studies, the climatic rise in the world's temperature, the sea level rise and coastal flooding, abnormal weather patterns, unusually warm weather heat waves, ocean warming, devastating typhoons and tornadoes, El Niño and la Niña, heavy snowfalls in many parts of the world, increased ranges of pests, drought and fires, and loss of biodiversity are the life - threatening results of climate change.

Slum dwellers in developing countries tend to be most vulnerable to climate change because they live along river banks, on slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on desertified land, in unstable structures, and along coastal waterfronts.

I have lived in tropical coastal areas and noticed quite large changes in local humidity but no particular change in local temperature.

«Today's report recognizes that the livelihoods of people living in coastal communities, the sustainability of rich natural resources that support our economy and the security of residential, commercial and industrial assets are at great risk if we don't devise and implement plans to protect against, and recover from, the adverse effects associated with climate change.»

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.).

This activity report showcases a set of case studies that present the work of a wide range of financed and supported projects that make a case for further investment in marine protected areas to restore the health of oceanic and coastal ecosystems, strengthen resilience in the face of climate change, sustain fisheries and other economic activities, and improve the lives of the world's poorest communities.

However, the conditions predicted for the open ocean may not reflect the future conditions in the coastal zone, where many of these organisms live (Hendriks et al. 2010a, b; Hofmann et al. 2011; Kelly and Hofmann 2012), and results derived from changes in pH in coastal ecosystems often include processes other than OA, such as emissions from volcanic vents, eutrophication, upwelling and long - term changes in the geological cycle of CO2, which commonly involve simultaneous changes in other key factors affecting the performance of calcifiers, thereby confounding the response expected from OA by anthropogenic CO2 alone.

Threats to marine biodiversity in the U.S. are the same as those for most of the world: overexploitation of living resources; reduced water quality; coastal development; shipping; invasive species; rising temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide in the surface ocean, and other changes that may be consequences of global change, including shifting currents; increased number and size of hypoxic or anoxic areas; and increased number and duration of harmful algal blooms.

According to the draft of the fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report,... the king tides have exposed a need for better coastal protection and long - term planning to potentially relocate half the 4000 people living on the islands.