Sentences with phrase «coastal area lost»

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At this point, the storm quickly loses its momentum and power, but not without unleashing wind speeds as high as 185 mph (300 kph) on coastal areas.

Northwest: Spring comes to the Pacific coastal areas slowly, as Pacific winter storms lose their punch further and further to the north along the California coast.

Day trips can take you to the spectacular redwood groves on the Avenue of the Giants, the intriguing Lost Coast, the coastal community of Shelter Cove, and the secluded King Range National Conservation Area and Sinkyone Wilderness.

Therefore, minutes after the treaty was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro I was passing out leaflets denouncing it as a death sentence for coral reefs and low lying islands and coastal areas, and said that we would lose most of the corals in the world in the next decade, which is what indeed happened.

During the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, «many lives were lost because mangrove forests had been cleared in some coastal areas of Myanmar,» said Nang Mya Han, professor at Myeik University in Myanmar, which contains 500,000 hectares of mangroves — the fourth - largest area in Southeast Asia.

Its glaciers, which feed the many Peruvian rivers that supply water to the cities in the semiarid coastal regions, have lost 22 percent of their area.

At this point, the storm quickly loses its momentum and power, but not without unleashing wind speeds as high as 185 mph (300 kph) on coastal areas.

As these uninhabitable areas become habitable for the first time in history, competition from the various coastal countries and islands who have lost their native homeland will become fierce.