Sentences with phrase «coastal populations»

Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea - level rise and coastal flooding — A global assessment.

An ever increasing coastal population means that the impact of the storms on humans is much greater since so many people lose their homes and businesses.

Less apparent, however, are the perceptions of locally focused marine issues by coastal populations living under a variety of social and environmental influences.

What is it about living in first - world coastal population centers that will inevitably shut down normal T production?

The story of 2017 is that climate change coupled with a swelling coastal population a disastrous combination.

But its dense coastal population and high consumption rates pushed it up in the rankings.

It is not only coastal populations that are threatened by rising global temperatures.

By the year 2025, the projected rapid increase in coastal populations could expose 75 % of the world's population to ocean - related hazards.

Nicholls [13] considered two scenarios of coastal population change in a scenario - based analysis of coastal flooding impacts for the 21st century: First a low - growth scenario, where coastal change was assumed to uniformly follow national change.

The fate of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is of primary importance for coastal populations worldwide, and even a single additional meter will make a huge impact when storm surges rise, thus flooding increases and salt water intrusion damages food production.

You could, of course, eat something from the ocean every day, such as coastal populations such as the Japanese do.

They weighted the numbers with information on coastal population growth and seasonal and weekly beach going, surfing, scuba diving, abalone diving, and swimming.

The need for greater education is growing along with coastal population densities and rising sea levels.

Too bad this particulate emission is also linked to premature deaths among coastal populations...

Think about feeding a population of 9 billion as formerly productive regions become too hot and dry for large scale agriculture, populations have to relocate, sea level causes very large coastal populations to move inland quicker than new high rise housing can be built (but the land is needed for crops) and so on.

Remember that the bulk of Westerners, though they may be more conservative than the urban coastal population, especially on social issues, are not doctrinaire ideologues.

«Clearly we need to identify the key threats to their survival in order to implement effective conservation strategies if we are going to protect these newly discovered coastal populations,» Dr Lukoschek says.

A 2015 report from NOAA on living shorelines noted that if coastal populations continue to increase, and if so - called «shoreline hardening» continues at the current rate, nearly one - third of the contiguous U.S. coastline could have sea walls or other gray infrastructure by 2100.

HONG KONG — While residents in Vanuatu are still battling flash floods caused by a devastating tropical cyclone last week, a study says coastal population growth may make storm threats from the sea a global crisis within a few decades.

Plugging their data into models that account for the range of plastic waste entering the ocean via different coastal populations, the researchers arrived at their estimated 11.1 billion pieces of coral - entangling plastic.

They help protect areas such as mangrove forests and seagrass beds that act as nurseries for marine animals, as well as human coastal populations.

But talking about a major hurricane drought comes with some caveats, particularly as the U.S. coastal population grows and more people who have never experienced a hurricane in any form move to coastal areas.

Unlike the mostly coastal population of JDate, the majority of ChristianMingle's users live in the Midwest or the Bible Belt.

If opening up ANWR was tough, this would be tougher, as there is a visceral feeling against drilling in states with significant coastal populations, even if the rigs can't be seen from shore.

It is during the Late Classic period that we see evidence of the greatest coastal population and the greatest diversity of sites.

In this study, we provide more detailed assessments of future coastal population exposure, including accounting for the observed differential growth of coastal areas against the land - locked hinterland, as well as for urbanisation trends and the expansive growth of coastal urban areas [37].

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of «climate conflict» and «global warring» that might be set off as greenhouse - driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already - turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

There is good reason to believe that floating wind can not only emulate this, but can facilitate accelerated growth in new markets and regions where securing low - carbon electricity at low cost for energy - intensive coastal populations is a growing priority.

Sea level rise will displace coastal populations faster than new housing can be built.

BACKGROUND The oceans provide a great many critical but undervalued ecosystem services that are nearing thresholds for healthy functioning, putting coastal populations ever more at risk.

But if present trends continue, the sea level could rise to submerge low - lying islands and devastate coastal populations during this century.

We calculated the population in the flood plain based on the distribution of coastal population per 1 m elevation increment (Table 2) assuming that all land below the computed surge heights belongs to the 100 - year flood plain.

But the picture is quite different beyond 2050 if the Paris Agreement goal of net - zero emissions is not met — a finding that could have major consequences for coastal populations, and for planners hoping to integrate climate resiliency into future projects.

With increasing coastal populations, rip currents will continue to be a serious hazard at surf beaches.

A recent study found that all of North America is home to ∼ 5 % of the world's coastal population living less than 10 m above sea level (45); accordingly, we address here only a small fraction of the overall challenge.

The estimates were based on information including World Bank data for trash generated per person in all nations with a coastline, coastal population density, the amount of plastic waste countries produce and the quality of their waste - management practices.

Earlier research by one of the study's co-authors, James Corbett of the University of Delaware, linked particle pollution to premature deaths among coastal populations.

Part of the problem is that some of the countries with the largest coastal populations - mostly in Asia - are also developing nations with inadequate infrastructure to deal with all the waste that they generate.

Judith A. Curry, an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Tech, said the new study, together with other recent research on warming and storms by her and others, added to a picture of rising risk and lagging government action on reducing vulnerability of coastal populations in the Atlantic and Caribbean hurricane zone.

As coastal populations and demand for ocean resources have grown, more and more human activities now overlap and interact in the marine environment.

However, it was the increase in coastal populations that caused the higher insurance losses.

Our coastal correction factors (a, b) were applied additionally to the derived rates to account for the assumptions that coastal population growth is higher than national population growth in general and that there is urban expansion from 2000 to 2060 into what has been categorised as non-urban areas in the year 2000.