Sentences with phrase «coastal cities in the world»

The hotel offers 5 star luxury in one of the most glamorous coastal cities in the world, for a holiday you will always remember.

Along with being one of the most beautiful coastal cities in the world, San Francisco is widely considered the cultural capital of Northern California, with outstanding museums and exhibition venues dedicated to art, science, design, and history.

But the difference is: we now have Amsterdam and many other coastal cities in the world, and losing these through our own fault would be stupid.

Not exact matches

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Some of the most populous cities in the world including Mumbai, Calcutta, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Guangzhou are heavily exposed to coastal flooding.

«It is a slightly unexpected scale and location for this water, and it's good news in many ways, especially because it's accessible to many of the world's growing coastal cities,» said paper co-author Michael Edmunds, a professor at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment in the United Kingdom.

Forty percent of the world's 7.6 billion people live in coastal cities and towns.

You might call this place ground zero in the effort to predict climate change, sea level rise, and the fate of coastal cities around the world.

In August 2013, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued an analysis of economic damage incurred among the world's largest 136 coastal cities and the damage they will sustain by 2050 under the same conditions.

Scientists have recently revealed that flooding has already been occurring in coastal cities in not only the U.S. but around the world.

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the world will rise by 1.5 m.

I think energy and metals will tank later once the rest of the world grasps how bad our recession will be (it will have to hit China; they have 11 - 12 % GDP growth and 7 % inflation, so despite the talk of how the place is booming, I suspect it is concentrated in the coastal cities and not widely shared, since real GDP growth isn't all that robust by emerging economy standards).

On this tour through Mexico's Yucatán, you'll also explore the colonial cities of Valladolid, with its charming streets and interesting churches; Mérida, where you'll stay in a former colonial mansion; and the coastal town of Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with baroque Spanish architecture.

Look for the coastal defense systems the city put in place in World War II to fend off the Japanese Navy.

Royalty and world leaders alike are known to have been regular travellers on The Blue Train over the years, whose famous route covers 994 miles between Pretoria in the north and the southern coastal city of Cape Town, a full 27 - hour journey.

Take a short drive along the coast in the morning to the southern coastal city and UNESCO World Heritage Site of Trinidad.

Located in the coastal city of Oxnard, the California Welcome Center Oxnard is just 1 hour northwest of Los Angeles where the world - famous Pacific Coast Highway (Hwy 1) meets Highway 101, with easy access from either the 101 or the PCH.

From the capital city of Melbourne to the high country, mountains, our world - famous coastal drive and some of the best beaches in the country.

What sets Biarritz apart from the hundreds of other beautiful European coastal hot spots is that its beauty and charm are far from skin deep, as the city is steeped in rich culture and historical relevance with particular reference to the surfing world.

The Bouddi National Park lies just across the water from the northernmost point in Sydney, but it's a world away from Australia's largest city, a pristine coastal wilderness.

Kookaburra Tours and Charters operates in a vibrant region like nowhere else in the world with a fascinating diversity that encompasses tropical islands, beautiful coastal towns, rainforests, rugged Outback and country terrain all supported by Australia's largest tropical city.

You'll also explore Ek» Balam, at the height of its importance from 600 - 900 AD, and Uxmal, one of the Maya's ancient masterpieces and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.On this tour through Mexico's Yucatán, you'll also explore the colonial cities of Valladolid, with its charming streets and interesting churches; Mérida, where you'll stay in a former colonial mansion; and the coastal town of Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with baroque Spanish architecture.

Many of these beaches help make the coastal city of Rio de Janeiro one of the top seaside destinations in the world.

Nestled on the coastal islands of Zealand and Amager, Copenhagen — Denmark's capital — isn't just super cool, it's ranked as the happiest city in the world.

Unless we get CO2 back below 275ppm the ice is going to continue to melt and we are going to get +80 metres of rise, and most of the good infrastructure works in coastal cities around the world are merely serving to enhance the dive experience for future tour - boat operators.

There are some 3,351 cities in low lying coastal zones around the world.

On the same day as the attacks, a paper by James E. Hansen and other climate experts was released arguing that carbon emissions are transforming our world far more quickly than expected, in ways that may inundate coastal cities and cause storms more horrendous than any in modern history.

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,

London, England (CNN)-- A possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $ 28 trillion worth of assets in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the insurance industry.

Hansen argues the dramatic sea level rise could put the earth's coastal cities in grave peril while a sudden influx of population from those cities will bring discord and conflict to the rest of the world.

Scientists expect a warming world to drive further sea - level rise over this century and beyond.3, 10,11 New York City faces increases in coastal flooding, the extent and frequency of storm surge, erosion, property damage, and loss of wetlands.3, 12,13

Noting that the current atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher than it's been in the past 650,000 years, the IPCC predicts that human - induced climate change could spell extinction for 20 to 30 percent of the world's species by the end of this century, cause increasingly destructive weather patterns, and flood coastal cities.

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...»

It is also that point in which all of the ice in the world melts and we will finally get out of our long running recession as we have to build housing for billions of coastal city dwellers in our new found temperate and tropical paradises.

And I'm worried that if governments keep saying what they're doing is organized at stopping warming at 2 - degrees, then the people who are actually on the front lines of climate change — coastal cities, farmers and so on — are going to think about preparing for a world that's 2 degrees warmer, when in reality the evidence seem to suggest they should be preparing for a world that [has warmed] a lot more than 2 degrees.

There are many signs that the world is heading into a period of warming --- one that could melt glaciers, flood small islands and coastal cities, threaten some animal species and make crops difficult to grow in previously productive agricultural regions.

Because much of humanity, including many residents of the world's major cities like Kolkata (Calcutta), London, Shanghai, and Washington, DC, are located in vulnerable coastal areas, hundreds of millions of people are directly at risk.

Joined by actors, athletes and musicians including: Mark Ruffalo, Adrian Grenier, Orlando Bloom, Serena Williams, James Cameron, Billy Morrison, Mark McGrath, Kevin Bacon, and Kyra Sedgwick amongothers, I AM highlights coastal cities in the U.S. and the world from New Orleans to New York City, from Tokyo to Jakarta, from San Francisco to Boston; that are in danger due to sea level rise.

One 2013 study in Nature Climate Change estimated that average annual losses from flooding in the world's biggest coastal cities could rise from $ 6 billion per year today to $ 1 trillion per year by 2050.

A recent World Bank study on the effects of sea level rise estimated that a minimum of 57 million people would be displaced by a 1 - meter rise in sea level and many coastal cities and communities would be at significant risk.

«As our world warms,» he claimed, «Greenland's ice will slip faster into the sea, contributing to a rise in sea levels that already threatens hundreds of millions of people living in low - lying nations and coastal cities.»

These communities — the poor in coastal cities and on low - lying islands — are among the world's most vulnerable to climate change and the least able to marshal the resources to adapt, a new report finds.

So far, today's tsunami has mainly affected Japan — there are reports of up to 300 dead in the coastal city of Sendai — but future tsunamis could strike the U.S. and virtually any other coastal area of the world with equal or greater force, say scientists.

A recent study estimates that average annual losses from flooding in the world's biggest coastal cities — including New York City, Miami, New Orleans, Boston, and Tampa Bay — could rise to $ 1 trillion per year by 2050.

A century from now, Mangalore city in coastal Karnataka will have the port most affected in India by the rise in sea levels caused by global warming, according to a recent study by NASA of 293 of the world's leading port cities.

Vancouver, British Columbia — nestled against the spectacular backdrop of the Pacific coastal mountains and waters of Georgia Strait — is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.