Sentences with phrase «coastal erosion problems»

For example, are new development projects set back from the coast far enough to avoid coastal erosion problems?

USA Today: Louisiana high school on a barge will tackle coastal erosion problem http://usat.ly/2lGcxMv

Not exact matches

With approximately 350,000 houses, business, bridges and other structures located within 500 feet of the nation's shoreline, erosion is a problem many U.S. coastal communities are addressing.

One of these, the Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Zones of West Africa (ACCC) project, brings together delegates from Cape Verde, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal to discuss solutions to climate change problems such as rising sea levels and coastal erosion.

Along the Pacific coast long - term erosion of dunes due to increasing wave heights is projected to be an increasing problem for coastal communities.

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Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key solution to the urgent environmental problems of climate change, fresh water pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and destruction of our coastal and marine systems.

They are planning to move to Bougainville, which is 50 miles away — another island that is experiencing some of the same problems, like coastal erosion, but it's mountainous and not as vulnerable as the Carteret Islands.

Even without epic storms, Horton said climate - related sea level increases can cause massive problems for coastal areas because it increases frequent flooding, which causes erosion, contaminates drinking water supplies and aquifers, damages farmland and decreases habitat for fisheries, wildlife and plants.