Sentences with phrase «coastal damage as»

Hurricanes are causing coastal damage as they come onshore at greater and greater velocities.

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.

Not exact matches

As per the president's remarks while he was in Venice, La. to witness efforts to mitigate the coastal damage from the BP oil spil... unlike Gov. David Paterson, Obama made no mention of terrorism:

As soon as his team hears of an approaching coastal storm, the members head out to monitor the damage (see «A week in the life of a storm chaser», page 49As soon as his team hears of an approaching coastal storm, the members head out to monitor the damage (see «A week in the life of a storm chaser», page 49as his team hears of an approaching coastal storm, the members head out to monitor the damage (see «A week in the life of a storm chaser», page 49).

Previous studies have subjected phytoplankton to oil in laboratories to test their sensitivity and found differences in the impact on oceanic vs. coastal phytoplankton and differences when phytoplankton were in nutrient - rich or nutrient - poor water, as well as damage to some phytoplankton cells at various concentrations of oil.

The authors recommended that vegetable producers in coastal areas consider using salt - tolerant vegetables such as spinach, eggplant, and tomato to minimize damage to the vegetables and increase production.

«Models such as this are needed for better forecasting of damaging wave conditions in coastal waters.»

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

That trend is projected to continue as the planet warms and could put coastal cities at risk and cause trillions of dollars in damage.

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

• More than 75 percent of the earth's people live in coastal areas, bringing to pristine coral reefs such threats as over-fishing, pollution and direct physical damage.

For example, if climatologists and oceanographers only considered sea level rise to predict coastal damages without regard to escalating rates of beach - front home building, they would be as errant as would a coastal developer who assesses future risks based only on current climate and sea levels (and Professor Pielke has led the charge on such integrated approaches).

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

Severe coastal erosion at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, as a result of storm damage during the 2009/10 El Niño.

Mid-latitude islands, such as islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland (St. Pierre et Miquelon), are exposed to impacts from tropical, post-tropical, and extra-tropical storms that can produce storm - surge flooding, large waves, coastal erosion, and (in some winter storms) direct sea ice damage to infrastructure and property.

The North Sea cod fishery has been declining owing to overfishing since the late 1960s.10 The North Sea cod catch fell 75 percent from 1987 to 2002, for example.11 In the past two decades, Bridlington fishermen shifted to shellfishing, 2 but the nearby town of Whitby is still known as the cod capital of the United Kingdom.12 England's coastal communities can ill afford further damage to the fishery from climate change.

Coastal living carries risk, however, as hurricanes and other coastal storms inflict trillions in property and infrastructure damage each year.

For example, as a result of ice melting on land, such as from glaciers and ice sheets, as well as thermal expansion of the ocean, we have seen sea level rise 3.4 millimeters per year from 1993 - 2015, which puts coastal communities at risk of flooding and infrastructure damage.

The ice sheet is the focus of scientific research because its fate has huge implications for global sea levels, which are already rising as ice sheets melt and the ocean warms, exposing coastal locations to greater damage from storm surge - related flooding.

Recent initiatives have looked at the effects of climate change on coastal flood damage and storm damage in Europe as well as the economics of climate adaptation... around the world, including Florida.»

Record - breaking temperatures, melting ice on land and sea, more frequent coastal flooding, prolonged droughts, and damaging storms are just some of the intensifying risks we face as our globe continues to warm.

The 2015 California Forest Health Highlights Report found that drought - stricken and fire - damaged trees fueled bark beetle outbreaks of epidemic proportions in areas of coastal and southern California, as well as throughout the central and southern Sierra Nevada range.

One dive - industry professional told his story of decades of coastal fishing, including years of highly damaging activities like using marine mammals such as sea lions for bait.

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

This rises to nearly 5 per cent if the economic benefits of avoiding climate change impacts such as coastal flooding or storm damage are taken into account, it said.

The study also estimates that resultant emissions decreases would reduce 2050 U.S. climate change costs — such as coastal erosion and extreme weather damage — by about $ 3.2 billion per year.

For example, rising sea level increases the likelihood that a storm surge will overtop a levee or damage other coastal infrastructure, such as coastal roads, sewage treatment plants, or gas lines — all with potentially large, expensive, and immediate consequences (Nordhaus, 2010).

SciDevNet: Global damage from flooding could cost coastal cities as much as US$ 1 trillion per year — and developing countries will be hardest hit, a study warns.

In fact, climate change alone could affect migration considerably through the consequences of warming and drying, such as reduced agricultural potential, increased desertification and water scarcity, and other weakened ecosystem services, as well as through sea level rise damaging and permanently inundating highly productive and densely populated coastal lowlands and cities [165,166,167,168].

As Japan awoke on Saturday to the devastation left by the one - two punch of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a deadly tsunami, Japanese officials warned that damage to a coastal nuclear reactor may have resulted in a radiation leak after its cooling system was knocked offline on Friday.

If you live in a coastal area, you may not be covered for damage caused by storm surge (usually defined as «a rush of water onshore caused by strong winds pushing on the ocean's surface) and / or movements caused by the sea (usually with the exception of tsunamis).

There's also some serious risk from hurricanes and coastal storms, as well as fire damage coverage, general liability coverage, and even odd endorsements like coverage for sewage backups that some Bowie homeowners have found to be indispensable when unforeseen problems are ruining a home.

Some property owners around the area look at the danger of flooding, including risk of problems with the nearby Wolf Creek and Center Hill dams, and this area of Tennessee isn't immune to some of the damage from periodic storms, but it is quite a ways inland, and not as risky as buying in some coastal areas of the South.

Local emergency management professionals in Tom's River have identified hurricane damage as a primary homeowner risk for this coastal area.

There's also some serious risk from hurricanes and coastal storms, as well as fire damage coverage, general liability coverage, and even odd endorsements like coverage for sewage backups that some Dundalk homeowners have found to be indispensable when unforeseen problems are ruining a home.

As a coastal state, you may have increased risk of flooding, hurricane damage, and other water - related events in Maine.

Hurricanes claim lives every year throughout the coastal states and cause billions of dollars in damages as well.

Leaving long - term damage in their wake, storms such as «Super Storm» Sandy in 2012 have rendered some coastal areas more dangerous and less desirable, lowering property values and reigniting intense debate about restoration, new building and investment in the regions.