Sentences with phrase «coastal ecosystem threatened»

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

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This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

That's the advice of coastal ecologists and geologists to those who are planning the clean - up of the Gulf ecosystems threatened by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Unsustainable aquaculture practices, overfishing and destructive harvesting threaten coastal and marine ecosystems, with projections that, if current fishing practices continue, there will be no exploitable fish stocks in the region by 2048.

Forests, alpine ecosystems, inland freshwater and wetlands, as well as coastal systems are identified as the most threatened Asia - Pacific ecosystems.

Anthropomorphic changes threaten the stability of coastal ecosystems, but whether economic growth contributes to such degradation is unknown.

This notorious invasive species threatens reef ecosystems in coastal waters around the southeastern U.S. and in the Caribbean Sea.

In fact, marine heatwaves experienced in Australia have already caused massive dieback of these important marine primary producers, threatening the socioeconomic benefits provided by coastal ecosystems.

Volunteer Stewards of Lands End are trained volunteers who perform habitat restoration and help in protecting fragile coastal ecosystems, as well as rare and threatened species.

Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.

«The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and freshwater ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more,» the letter published in Science reads.

Warmer waters affect both river and coastal ecosystems, threatening salmon runs and other important marine and freshwater species.

Sea - level rise due to both climate change and non-climatic factors threatens coastal settlements, infrastructure, and ecosystems.

Scientists also expect sea - level rise to alter coastal ecosystems such as the salt marshes and estuaries of Long Island, threatening feeding grounds for migrating waterfowl and nursery habitat for commercial fish.19

(v) The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and fresh water ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more.