Sentences with phrase «coastal communities around»

In fact, in 2017 over 50 OFGs were installed by our chapter network in coastal communities around the country.

This would be devastating to coastal communities around the world, including in the United States in the coming decades as storm surges reach further inland and waters rise.

Divers from coastal communities around the world wrapped crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs during a series of underwater dives to highlight the catastrophic damage to this valuable ecosystem and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry for its loss.

And the more the ice sheet melts — we're talking hundreds of billions of tons of ice a year — the more that rising seas endanger low - lying coastal communities around the world.

«Global warming may profoundly affect animals, plants, and coastal communities around the world,» von Weizsäcker added, «and Bren School researchers have been at the forefront in terms of clarifying the challenges and presenting attractive responses to them.

Melting glaciers and the resulting sea - level rise are a threat to coastal communities around the world.

This week divers from different coastal communities around the world wrapped the bright yellow crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs in a series of underwater dives.

Leading scientists also warn that this process is endangering the entire planet: Arctic warming and melting cause more extreme weather in the mid-latitudes and sea level rise that will have catastrophic consequences for low - lying coastal communities around the world.

That, in turn, fuels sea - level rise, said Francis, who called rising seas a «monstrous» issue for coastal communities around the world.

The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.

Not exact matches

«We all have to work to innovate, test, monitor, and develop a better suite of options that includes more natural and hybrid infrastructure alternatives for providing coastal protection to communities around the world.»

Around the world, from Alaska's remote North Slope to the island nations in the South Pacific, coastal communities are watching their shorelines slip away into the rising seas.

Far - flung coastal communities accustomed to the Pacific Ocean's mighty onslaughts were flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most intense storms currently on record, with sustained winds ripping through their streets at around 320 kilometers per hour and gusts reaching 370 kph.

We are savoring a summer of quiet afternoons, with baking pies and browsing libraries, weekly gatherings with a local Missional Community, exploring local parks and playgrounds in the cool mornings, and hiking trails around mountain passes and coastal beaches on Calvin's days off.

So as the school starts to improve the community around it will actually start to change, whereas in a rural or coastal one, it's quite fixed and it won't change.

Offering breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean, stunning vistas around every corner and remarkable coastal communities along the way, a California Coast road trip along the iconic Highway 1 is a memorable way to start the new year.

Wheeler, like many of the small coastal communities in Oregon has begun to expand and grow slowly but surely and now offers some of the best meals and adventures around.

The laid back coastal community is the perfect place for a relaxed beach holiday where you can take time out with family and friends to enjoy good times without too much hustle and bustle going on around you.

And escalating coastal losses of life and property around the globe threaten the capacity of the world's largest industry — insurance, which is an essential tool for preventing losses and restoring communities after disasters.

Americans say they want healthy seafood, clean beaches, stable fisheries, abundant wildlife and vibrant coastal communities (all identified by Americans to the Pew Oceans Commission during our hearings around the nation).

Sea levels presumedly will rise by say 5 metres but this will not be uniform around the world and the rise will be fairly gradual in any case and coastal communities will have time to mitigate its effect.

The current debate around the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline centres around political posturing, provincial jurisdiction, investment priorities, climate change, coastal protection and consent by First Nations communities, but when the pipeline was originally being built in 1952, civil defence and the threat of war with the Soviet Union was a going concern.

Kowanyama is a community of around 1200 people on the Cape York Peninsula, situated on a 4170 square kilometre area of DOGIT land and coastal strip.