Sentences with phrase «coastal storm buffers»

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Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, providing nursery habitat for fish and shellfish while buffering many coastal communities from the impacts of coastal storms and sea level rise.

In Bangladesh and Thailand, coastal mangrove forests — important buffers against storms and tidal waves — are giving way to ocean water.

Likewise, coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and tidal marshes are proving to be a more cost - effective and ecologically sound alternative to buffering storms than conventional coastal engineering solutions.

«Without (sea) ice as a buffer, Alaska coastal villages are no longer protected from big storms and their giant waves.

They will do that by taking a close look at restrictions on building in hazardous coastal areas, making coastal structures more storm - proof, protecting and enhancing coastal wetlands and other ecosystem features that can buffer storm impacts, and creating financial incentives to promote protective behaviors.

With coastal vegetation's improvement of water quality by filtering becoming more evident, it is also necessary to point out how young fish very often use these nursery areas to thrive; storms are buffered and even how many other (species such as manatee) are dependent on these habitats.

And what the rest of coastal USA is doing about this, has nothing to do with rain barrels, oyster reefs, buffer zone plantings, Bacterra Storm Water Filters, picking up soda cans in the marshes and some of the other feel good - do nothing projects that the Virginian Pilot has been promoting to an incredibly naïve local population for several years now.

And perhaps of increasing importance is the fact that they also as natural coastal buffers, helping to protect shorelines and keep coastal wetlands intact, thereby protecting coastal communities against storm surges and sea - level rise.