Sentences with phrase «coastal populations living»

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

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.

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To compute how additional pollution from ships increases risk of disease for exposed populations, especially those living in coastal communities or along major shipping lanes and far inland in some nations like India, the team incorporated important underlying health information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma Network.

Yet, as of 2010, 39 percent of the U.S. population lived in coastal areas that feature greater risks of hurricane, floods and earthquakes.

The researchers undertook the study in light of concerns about decreasing levels of oxygen in coastal waters worldwide, and how the growing prevalence of low - oxygen «dead zones» might affect populations and management of blue crabs and other coastal marine life.

«By quantifying where and to what extent habitats reduce the exposure of vulnerable populations and property, our analyses are, to the best of our knowledge, the first to target where conservation and restoration of coastal habitats are most critical for protecting lives and property on a national scale,» the paper says.

The risk to coastal areas is high because of the high population density in the area — some 130 million people live along the sea's coastline.

Malin Pinsky, an ecologist at Rutgers University who studies population dynamics of coastal marine species and who was not involved in the research, described the study as significant because of its unusually large scope, as well as its focus on different fish life stages.

Damselflies live in coastal forests that once formed a continuous belt in east Africa but are now fragmented, forcing the creatures into small, vulnerable populations.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

In a paper published recently in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from several Western institutes estimated the number of people living in low - elevation coastal zones, as well as the scale of the population at risk from one - in -100-year storm surge events, by using scenario - based projections.

«The results show that people in coastal areas are more aware of flood threats than those living in inland flood zones, and that populations in inland areas are increasing.

Zooplankton ecology, Copepod life history strategies and population dynamics, trophic interactions, coastal observing of zooplankton and ichthyoplankton seasonal species succession, zooplankton vertical distribution, fish recruitment processes and connectivity, laboratory experiments and field sampling.

With 85 % of the population living in coastal areas, and a marine economy contributing $ 73B annually, Australia's well - being is inextricably tied to the ocean.

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

Living in first world coastal population centers will inevitably do it as well.

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

Coral and shells are handcrafted into jewelry by the Creole population that lives along the coastal area.

Inland, the Belizean Mayan population handcrafts replicas of ancient petroglyphs while the Garifuna people living in southern coastal villages are known for their small dolls.

As far as coastal areas are concerned, the pressure from increasing population is dangerous to the marine life, no doubt, and sewage is a big problem.

The raise of the level of the sea, for example, could create situations of extreme gravity when taking into account that a quarter of the world population lives by the sea or very close to it, and that most megacities are located in coastal areas.

Higher seas endanger coastal communities — where 40 percent of the world's population lives — and threaten groundwater supplies.

Global Warming Effects on Sea Level Higher seas endanger coastal communities — where 40 percent of the world's population lives — and threaten groundwater supplies.

Loss of Land — Half of the human population lives in coastal areas or already below sea level.

Roughly a third of the US population — more than 100 million people — live in coastal counties.

The most affected populations are the urban poor — i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries — who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.

Speaking as one who lives here, the answer is that things will have to get a lot less comfortable for the coastal rim population before they budge.

About 83 % of Western Australia's total population live in the 15 coastal cities and towns with temperatures recorded by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology since the year 1900.

Crowell, M., K. Coulton, C. Johnson, J. Westcott, D. Bellomo, S. Edelman, and E. Hirsch, 2010: An estimate of the U.S. population living in 100 - year coastal flood hazard areas.

They are strongly related to the internal variability observed at basin scale and these variations can strongly affect population living in coastal areas.

More than a quarter of the world's population is living on coastal areas.

One - third of the world's population are estimated to live in coastal areas.

Thirty nine percent of the population lives in coastal shoreline counties.

But it need not be prohibitive or dangerous to life and limb if: (1) the total amount of SLR and, perhaps more importantly, the rate of SLR can be forecast with some confidence; (2) the rate of SLR is slow relative to how fast populations can strengthen coastal defenses and / or relocate; and (3) there are no insurmountable barriers to migration.

Jenna Jambeck and her colleagues at the University of Georgia found that an incredibly large amount of plastic waste is mismanaged by the populations living in coastal area, and that even a conservative estimate of how much ends up in the sea puts adds up to between 4.8 million to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic.

Roughly 40 percent of the US population — about 123 million people — lives in coastal counties.

According to a NOAA report, the size of the population living in U.S. coastal shoreline counties jumped by 35 million between 1970 to 2010.

However, the housing market is especially tough in the coastal areas where about two - thirds of the population live.

With over 98 % of Florida's population living in a coastal county as of 2015, the risk is high for property losses.