Sentences with phrase «coastal land from»

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.

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For evidence, he pointed to coastal wetland protection rules requiring farmers to get permits before watering their cows from ponds on their land.

Clean Harbors is the North American leader in providing response services for environmental emergencies of any scale on land or water — from the cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and cleanup of a coastal oil spill.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

When people in Brazil are persuaded by their government to migrate away from the coastal areas to take up farming on a plot of land in Amazonia, they cause great destruction.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

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.

Previous research suggests that, during the last ice age (which ended around 11,700 years ago), humans moved into the Americas from Asia across what was then a land bridge to North America, eventually reaching what is now the west coast of British Columbia, Canada as well as coastal regions to the south.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

The results show the importance of taking land subsidence into account when calculating the risk from coastal flooding, the researchers say.

Pollution of the ocean by runoff from the land and the fouling of the air with carbon dioxide (which is warming the ocean and acidifying it) are accelerating and expanding the threats to the world's coastal waters.

Many of those employees live in the coastal parishes that have suffered most from oil and gas activities and face the most severe consequences from the resulting land loss.

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

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

International efforts are currently underway in Antarctica to build long - term monitoring systems for land and coastal organisms from an ecological conservation standpoint.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

Professor Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter said: «Carbon storage in sediments in these rivers and coastal regions could present a more secure environment than carbon stored in soil on land.

New research suggests that human activity could be increasing the movement of carbon from land to rivers, estuaries and the coastal zone indicating that large quantities of anthropogenic carbon may be hidden in regions not previously considered.

Constraining coral reef metabolism and carbon chemistry dynamics are fundamental for understanding and predicting reef vulnerability to rising coastal CO2 concentrations and decreasing seawater pH. However, few studies exist along reefs occupying densely inhabited shorelines with known input from land - based sources of pollution.

Use the ground or surface from the original 3 N64 games» boards for the matter of spaces, like the ocean floor for Deep Blooper Sea or the coastal beaches for Pirate Land.

That hurricane had been the shortest on record, but to keep the coastal towns safe from our fish, our family had packed up and moved deep inland, plunging into the very heart of the land and stopping as close to the center of the country as we could get.

The hotel's distinct silhouette is visible from both land and sea, serving as a landmark for seafaring vessels for decades and as a benchmark for all coastal hotels in the state.

Once visitors have scaled the rugged cliffs using the stairwell from the Landing Cove, they will be rewarded with a campground perched on the bluffs with magnificent coastal views.

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!

Once visitors have scaled the rugged cliffs using the steep trail from the Landing Cove, they will be rewarded with a campground perched on the bluffs with magnificent coastal views.

South Hedland, located 20 minutes» drive inland from the coastal town of Port Hedland in the state's north, was born when the booming Port Hedland ran out of suitable building land in the mid 1960s.

• Take a walk from Cape Naturaliste to Wyadup on Conservation and Land Management's 11 - mile coastal track.

If you want to feel secluded vacation somewhere in the middle of the woods, away from the city, the exotic beaches and comfortable, but still on vacation with a complete tourist facility, not wrong if you try vacationing at G - Land, a coastal tourist area nicknamed G - Land Surf Paradise.

More... Hiking Once visitors have scaled the rugged cliffs using the steep trail from the Landing Cove, they will find just over five miles of trails that meander over gentle slopes and low mountain tops to dramatic overlooks and magnificent coastal views.

Once visitors have scaled the rugged cliffs using the stairway from the landing cove, they will find a figure eight - shaped trail system that meanders over gentle slopes to dramatic overlooks, magnificent coastal views, and the last permanent lighthouse built on the west coast.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in classical music performance from the University of Michigan in 2004 (and since supplemented with years of volunteering in the park, interning at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, running his own California native gardening business, and taking countless classes in all aspects of the natural world), you can find him at Lands End, often performing experiments to assess the health effects of accordion music on newly - planted California coastal scrub ecosystems.

This is important both for the reef and the land, they cultivate the sea grass which acts as a nursery for many fish species but also provide coastal protection from storms and tsunamis.

Well, here we are again, another day, another delve in coastal vintage style with a bit of help from Pottery Barn Australia ladies of Beach Cottage Land.

The high vantage point and panoramic coastal views not only offer sweeping landscapes but also your best opportunity to spot these annual migrations from dry land.

San Francisco in Black and White, photo Friday (Walking along the coastal trails from Lands End to Baker beach in San Francisco) Taking pictures in San Francisco and creating black and white photographs of this iconic city is a fun and exciting challenge, and exploring the many attractions and landmarks around the city can easily fill -LSB-...]

Inspired by the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish coastal geography and cultural history the internationally renowned artist Susan Philipsz develops a land border sound installation to be implemented in nine different places from May to September 2014.

On view through May 23, 2010, The Lens of Impressionism will be complemented by the presentation of Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea, a special exhibition drawn from the Museum's collections opening in April that will explore how coastal landscapes have been portrayed by artists throughout the past century.

These dinoflagellate blooms, which can be thought of as ancient red tides, are a sign of major environmental stress in the coastal zone possibly as a result of the increased runoff of water from the land.

The processes of land subdivision and development set in place urban features that last for millenia (the layout of streets in Rome, London, Florida etc), and so it is sensible today to start building all new infrastructure (roading layouts, utilities etc) to facilitate a logical response to the progressive sea level rise and withdrawl from the coastal areas.

In environmental science, it will require strengthening our weather forecasting, our Earth observation from space, the management of our nation's land, water and forests, and the stewardship of our coastal zones and ocean fisheries.

The bottom line, of course, is that coastal communities in many developing countries, from flood - prone agricultural delta lands to crowding cities, face a very soggy future.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

These include eastern boundary current upwelling systems such as those off the U.S. west coast along coastal California, Oregon and Washington, deep - sea and subsurface oxygen minimum zones, and coastal waters that are already experiencing excess nutrient levels (eutrophication) and low dissolved oxygen (hypoxia) due to human - driven nutrient pollution from land - based activities.

Detailed impacts, however, will vary strongly from region to region and coast to coast and therefore can not be easily generalized, as changing mean and extreme coastal water levels depend on a combination of near shore and offshore processes, related to climatic but also non-climatic anthropogenic factors, such as natural land movement arising from tectonics, volcanism or compaction; land subsidence due to anthropogenic extraction of underground resources; and changes in coastal morphology resulting from sediment transport induced by natural and / or anthropogenic factors.

NC - 20 mounted a furious lobbying campaign, including publications from a range of climate change deniers, asserting that the sea level report would raise insurance rates, limit coastal development, and cause land values to decline.

The same sea levels would cover land where a total of 6.2 (0.0 — 15.1) million people live today across all coastal US states, or where 9.5 (0.0 — 17.4) million people live after accounting for emissions expected from infrastructure.

New York offered coastal homeowners in certain areas a buyout program to incentivize moving away from the coast and turning that land into greenspace intended to provide protection from future storms.

Likewise, Texas, Rhode Island, Maine, and South Carolina's coastal zones all benefit from a degree of rolling setbacks, a policy akin to managed retreat that allows private coastal property owners to develop their land, but prohibits the erection of seawalls and barriers once sea levels begin to threaten the structures.

As you are aware there are major local variations from the global pattern, with coastal land in some regions sinking faster than the average and in other regions being uplifted with respect to mean sea level.

Dr Curry: in the past I had to work on the design basis for coastal structures and we focused on storm surge and potential risks from having more open water (could be a problem in the Arctic), melting permafrost causing land loss, etc..