Sentences with phrase «coastal communities around the world»

How will residents of cities and coastal communities around the world need to adapt?

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.

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.

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

Warmer air can hold more water vapor, which can lead to more intense rainstorms, causing major problems like extreme flooding in 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.

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.

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

The shrinking of the Greenland ice sheet is a global issue: it is affected by and contributes to climate change, and helps shape fisheries, other sea life, and 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.

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.