Sentences with phrase «coastal land»

Our efforts are focused on establishing appropriate setbacks for development, opposing shoreline structures, and placing coastal lands in public trust.

The two - month program focused on the ocean as one connected system which consists of numerous users and stakeholders both for coastal land and the sea.

The emphasis in these initiatives is on trust - building and social learning in collaboration with key stakeholder groups such as farmers, coastal land owners, minority groups, and industry members.

As the border of a continent extends underwater from the shoreline, the submerged shelf resembles coastal land beside it.

It is built on almost 200 ft. of coastal land in a contemporary style and has everything you wuld need for your dream -LSB-...]

Hence we must start to adapt now, be that planning higher defences, flood proofing buildings and strategically planning coastal land use.»

There are other forces at work, including a series of geologic faults in the delta and the rock layers beneath, but a U.S. Department of Interior report says oil and gas canals are ultimately responsible for 30 to 59 percent of coastal land loss.

Is that just a difference of degree, that they are adjusted using coastal land stations but not «forced to conform» or is the Jones adjustment not used now?

Creation of the wildlife sanctuary, situated between scenic Route 1A and Plum Island Sound, protects vulnerable coastal land from development and ensures the public will be able to explore and enjoy one of the most beautiful salt marsh and adjoining upland habitats in the state.

«Seafloor erosion now occurring like coastal land loss.»

On another approach is British artist Tony Plant, a sand - painter and photographer who borrows his canvas from nature by using the wet sand of low - lying coastal lands of England as his working surface.

Some of these impacts will be irreversible, such as species extinctions and coastal land lost to rising seas.

Towards the edge of San Diego city limits, Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve is 2,000 acres of coastal land just waiting to be hiked.

Warren further «speculatively» purchased vacant coastal land with a long - term view that it would escalate in capital value.

Less was heard about another set of models that had attempted to predict how high the storm surge would be, a rough guide to how much coastal land might be flooded.

Together, these change the composition of the different layers in the ocean there causing less mixing between warm and cold layers and thus less melted sea and coastal land ice.

In addition to permanently submerging coastal land, sea - level rise will make the flood damage from hurricanes and nor'easter s worse in the future, he said.

This more detailed and accurate model could help scientists better predict the motion of dunes or manage coastal land threatened by erosion, says physicist Hans Jürgen Herrmann, also of ETH Zürich, who led the research team.

But it's nearly gone because it was growing on coastal land bulldozed for multi-million-dollar homes.

The act also designated 8 million acres of ANWR as wilderness and thus off - limits to human settlement, and directed that the 1002 area — the 1.5 million acres of coastal land between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea — could be surveyed for possible oil and gas resources.

Faced by the loss of so much precious coastal land, it seems quite plausible that our descendants will resort to some kind of mega-project to cool the planet and stop the ice sheets melting.

Mushrooms taller than skyscrapers dot landscapes to the east, while wood and stone marvels of engineering are being constructed in the marshy coastal lands to the south.

Hiking trails on our 50 acres of private coastal lands for light hiking, jogging, meditative walks, and other quiet time in nature

Managed by sav Hospitality and located in one of the most sought after destinations in the Philippines, the Pacific Cebu Resort is an innovative hotel boasting 133 luxurious guest rooms spread across 6.5 hectares of exquisitely beautiful coastal land

Specifically, Craddock has concentrated her efforts toward maintaining a record, both mental and visual, of the Alabama coastal lands of Perdido Bay where she spent so much time as a child, and continues to visit as an adult.

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The high specific heat capacity of ocean water causes coastal land to have a milder climate than inland areas.

Bought coastal land in Scotland in 2006 to build a golf course and resort area.

Twenty - seven square miles of pristine coastal land along the central Texas coastline between Houston and Corpus Christi will now be preserved for future generations after a decades - long effort by environmental groups and $ 34.5 million from penalties paid by BP and Transocean after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen explains how the election of trial lawyer buddy John Bel Edwards as Governor of Louisiana has paved the way for Green lawsuits against oil and gas companies that are nothing more than shakedowns — claiming the energy industry as a whole is responsible for coastal land erosion in the state.

The relative coldness of the land around 1885 to 1895 comes from the Northern Hemisphere continental interiors, particularly in winter, as global coastal land air temperature and adjacent SST anomalies agree well at this time (Parker et al., 1995), confirmed by the Jones et al. (2001) data.

We have also successfully prosecuted and defended lawsuits involving CEQA and other coastal land use and zoning issues.

Fishing, a major source of food for the region, will also be affected by rising sea levels, making coastal land unusable, causing fish species to migrate, and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events disrupting agriculture.

University - led cooperative engagement approaches emphasize trust building and social learning in collaboration with key stakeholder groups such as farmers, coastal land owners, minority groups, and industry members.

It has been happening at a snail's pace so far, but as it speeds up more and more low - lying coastal land will be lost.

Some of these impacts will be irreversible, such as species extinctions and coastal land lost to rising seas.

Along the Amalfi coast — just south of Naples and a short 50 minute flight from Rome — lies a gorgeous stretch of coastal land just waiting to be explored!

In summer 2015, the Public Press first reported on how rising seas could inundate coastal land in the Bay Area.

In 2013, he re-evaluated his investment strategy and realised his South African property portfolio was cash flow neutral, his vacant coastal land was «stealing» from him and he was not enabling the financial freedom of his family.