Sentences with phrase «coastal regions including»

For one thing, the study was limited to countries where surveys had already been conducted, which leaves out major coastal regions including South America and much of Africa and Asia.

Not exact matches

It also occasionally includes fish if you are from a coastal region.

Today, that is down to around a third, although in more western and coastal regions, including the UK and Republic of Ireland, the decline has been far greater with forest coverage in some areas dropping below 10 %.

The only «highly suitable» regions are Florida and portions of nearby states to the west, including coastal regions of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.

More than 100 marine benthic calcifying taxa, from the coastal zone to the deep sea, from tropical, temperate and polar regions, were included in this comprehensive study.

With the human activity associated with industrialization, however, came the burning of fossil fuels for manufacturing and transportation, putting more carbon dioxide into the air and creating an increased pressure of this gas on some regions of the earth's surface — including coastal areas.

Nieves» team, which included participation from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Esporles, Spain, set out to detect decadal sea level changes over large U.S. coastal ocean regions.

Biological oceanography of coastal seas, including physical - biological coupling, phytoplankton bloom dynamics, including HAB species, and nutrient dynamics on Georges Bank, the Gulf of Maine, and the slope sea region of the NW Atlantic.

Based on our preliminary epidemiological data, the disease quickly spread to most of the duck - producing regions in China including many of the coastal provinces and neighboring regions, Anhui Province, Beijing Autonomous City, Hebei Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Province, Jiangsu Province, Jiangxi Province, Shandong Province and Zhejiang Province (Fig. 1).

Buick has bragged about its recent sales successes: how its median age has lowered by seven years from 64 to 57, how sales in trendy coastal regions have increased as much as 42 percent, and how most of these sales are conquests from other companies — including, we'd wager, Toyota.

Most policies will include wind coverage, except in coastal and other regions that are at high risk from windstorms.

Day 2: Lynton Station — Shark Bay Explore coastal and inland regions of Kalbarri N / Park including «Natures Window» and «The Loop» seeing abundant wildlife and spectacular scenery.

Highlights of the tour can include swimming with Australian sea lions and dolphins in their natural environment, bush camping under the stars, walking on footprint free beaches, visiting pristine coastal regions untouched by mass tourism, swimming in an underground lake in one of the Nullarbor caves, bush walking and much more.

Enjoy authentic Spanish cuisine at its very best as we eat our way around the region, including a Michelin starred restaurant on route to the captivating coastal city of San Sebastián, heralded as one of the finest gastronomic cities in Europe.

Lesser - known regions of Turkey: Many visitors to Turkey focus on the coastal resorts and / or Istanbul but there's so much to be appreciated and enjoyed elsewhere in the country, including the Eastern, Anatolian and Black Sea regions.

The most visited regions and towns are to the west of the island including the Balagne region (with Calvi, L'Ile - Rousse, and a great deal of beautiful coastal scenery) and to the south around Bonifacio.

The feeling of remoteness here makes for an engaged and captive audience whilst being close to the sights and attractions of the region including award winning wineries, the coastal villages of Sorrento and Portsea, rugged cliffs and perfect swimming and surf beaches.

The hotel also offers excursions all over both the mountainous and coastal regions, these include horse riding, sailing, shopping or just relaxing on the beaches and exploring the many idyllic coves around the Maddalena archipelago.

Lakes Entrance region has many natural attractions, lakes, ocean with pristine 90 mile beach, high country, Snowy River coastal scenic tours, including boat cruises.

Explore together the hidden waterfalls, lakes and volcanic mountains of the northern interior including Banjar Hot Springs, Lake Beratan and Mount Batukaru before heading south to the coastal regions of Lovina and Candidasa and 6 nights» luxury at the lagoon beach of exclusive Nusa Dua.

Highlights include the McLaren Vale wine region, stunning coastal scenery on a Coorong eco cruise and two full days touring on Kangaroo Island.

Day Three — Streaky Bay to Coober Pedy — Journey by road to enjoy the coastal vista if this region, including the opportunity to view the majestic sea eagles» nesting ground along the cliff faces and the rugged coastline of Cape Bauer.

My fitness and experience is well - suited to a variety of challenging environments including the open ocean, temperate and tropic underwater habitats, deserts, coastal regions, mountain and sub-arctic terrain.

The region is also great for hiking, with some wonderful coastal paths (including a section of the Camí de Cavalls, one of the best - known hiking routes on the island).

With jungles, rainforests, coastal lagoons, and rivers, the region is home to an amazing array of animal and plant life that includes the jaguar, manatee, and howler monkeys.

Our private Italy tours feature the best of the country's gorgeous coastal regions, including -LSB-...]

The gifted works, which join another 40 pieces donated to the museum over the last 16 years by the couple, include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper made between the 1940s and 1990s, by artists working in Brazil, Venezuela, and the southeastern coastal region of Río de la Plata, which includes Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, and Uruguay's, Montevideo.

Vision at Water's Edge includes both acrylic and oil paintings of coastal regions and freshwater shorelines throughout the country.

These places include the European, eastern Asian, and American coastal regions.

Destructive TCs in any one place tend to be generational... enough time for people to forget them and go back to risky behavior, including over-development of coastal regions.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program, composed of 13 federal agencies, reported in 2009 that climate - related changes are already being observed in every region of the world, including the United States and its coastal waters.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

The communities that depend on the Arctic include coastal towns, indigenous peoples, and nation states, within and beyond the Arctic region.

climate - related changes are already being observed in every region of the world, including the United States and its coastal waters.

increased CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- by using ocean models that include realistic processes such as horizontal heat transport, vertical mixing due to convection and small - scale processes, and upwelling along coastal regions and the equator.

Although previous studies have offered a general global overview of water circulation between the oceans and land, this traditional two - region model does not take into account the considerable precipitation that occurs over tropical coastal regions, including the Indonesian maritime continent, the Indian subcontinent, and the Bay of Bengal.

The Asian region also faces a range of climate impacts, including extreme heat, imperiled drinking water resources, and accelerated sea - level rise, which can lead to widespread population displacement, food insecurity, and costly damage to coastal cities and towns.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

This includes maintaining Argo, the main system for monitoring ocean heat content, and the development of Deep Argo to monitor the lower half of the ocean; the use of ship - based subsurface ocean temperature monitoring programs; advancements in robotic technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor waters adjacent to land (like islands or coastal regions); and further development of real - or near - real - time deep ocean remote sensing methods.

-- The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Director of the National Science Foundation shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to complete a study of the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development, including storm intensity, track, and frequency, and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone coastal regions.

Turbines are most efficient in fast winds, note Jacobson and Masters, and could provide needed revenue to farmers and ranchers in areas where mean annual wind speeds are highest - including the Dakotas, Texas, coastal regions and large portions of the West and Northeast.

report that ocean sediment cores containing an «undisturbed history of the past» have been analyzed for variations in PP over timescales that include the Little Ice Age... they determined that during the LIA the ocean off Peru had «low PP, diatoms and fish,» but that «at the end of the LIA, this condition changed abruptly to the low subsurface oxygen, eutrophic upwelling ecosystem that today produces more fish than any region of the world's oceans... write that «in coastal environments, PP, diatoms and fish and their associated predators are predicted to decrease and the microbial food web to increase under global warming scenarios,» citing Ito et al..

Models of the coast line suggest that populations in the north western region of Europe are most affected and many countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Italy, will need to strengthen their coastal defences.

Included in these will be the «timely launch» of new nuclear power plant construction projects in China's eastern coastal region.

5: Transportation), many of the region's key highways (including I - 95) and rail systems (including Amtrak and commuter rail networks) span areas that are prone to coastal flooding.

The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods — especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts — very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.

«This includes record numbers and record intensity of hurricanes and typhoons, record widespread heavy rains and flooding — think Houston, Louisiana, the Carolinas (Hurricane Matthew) and now California — record drought, heatwaves and wild fires, and increasing inundations in coastal regions from rising sea level.»

Spanning a variety of ecosystems, including the dry coastal region, the tropical Amazon, and the high Andes, the country is particularly vulnerable to climate change.

Most recently he has been studying how global climate change and related sea - level rise affect the risks from coastal - storm surges, primarily impacts on infrastructure systems in global megacities, including the New York City metropolitan region.

The region most at hazard includes the coastal plains along both sides of the Gulf, the cities of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Dhahran and Bandar Abbas, the marshes where the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates drain into the sea, and the Yemeni coast of the Red Sea.