The phrase
"coastal zone" refers to the area where land meets the sea or ocean. It includes the beach, sand dunes, and the nearby land and water.
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Ice storms are occurring even
in coastal zones with oceans that are at record warm temperatures.
Wind farms in hurricane -
prone coastal zones are frequently designed to withstand hurricane - force winds, up to level Category 3 hurricanes.
Her postdoc work includes scenario planning, land use change modelling, impact assessments, and development of conservation goals and priorities for coastal protection and restoration for the Great Barrier
Reef coastal zone.
The cleanup answer will depend on the situation in
particular coastal zones, and there will be places where the cure — crews of workers — can be worse than the initial insult.
-- Loss of common pool resources, sense of place, and identity, especially among indigenous populations in
rural coastal zones.
This could increase the economic impact
on coastal zones six fold by the end of the century.
Beyond sea level rise, low -
elevation coastal zones in many countries face intensifying storm surges that will push sea water further inland.
We only ask, having just ploughed through the Department of the Environment's first ever guidance on
coastal zone planning.
The state's highest court will hear arguments tomorrow on whether Indian Point, the nuclear power plant 40 miles from New York City, needs a new state
coastal zone permit.
«The colliding forces of human fertility,
submerging coastal zones, residential retreat, and impediments to inland resettlement is a huge problem.
Declines in fog frequency may be good news for Sun - seeking tourists and for air traffic controllers at coastal airports, but the trend seen in the eastern Pacific alarmed the global community of natural resource managers working in
affected coastal zones.
A Global Climate Change Action project is being implemented in the area of
integrated coastal zone management and climate change.
With this methodology, the factors most often mentioned as risks of negative or unintended consequences are a.) employing it too
near coastal zones afflicted with toxic algal species, and b.) pushing beyond literal «restoration» activities to seed unprecedented concentrations of new plankton growth.
In 2016 she was awarded a Hollings and in the summer of 2017 she did research in a NOAA lab on
coastal zone protection strategies.
In southern Thailand, the
vast coastal zones are now used for prawn and shrimp cultivation for export.
This is very different than far more common quakes
plaguing coastal zones like California, caused by the constantly shifting outskirts of the continent's plate.
Reinhard and Noah Planavsky, a geochemist from Yale University, who headed up the research together, have mined records of sedimentary rock that formed in
ancient coastal zones, going down layer by layer to 3.5 billion years ago, to compute how the cycle of the essential fertilizer phosphorus evolved and how it appeared to play a big part in a veritable genesis.
Through our capacity - building approach, better city planning will result in fewer people impacted, dunes will prevent floods caused by storm surge in soon - to -
be-developed coastal zones, and families living in vulnerable areas will have built houses that are more suitable for extreme weather.
Feeding that population will require more arable land even as swelling oceans consume
fertile coastal zones and river deltas, driving people to seek new places to dwell.
The team's findings provide one possible mechanism for an observed increase in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon in the surface waters of North America and Europe during the last few decades, and have implications for management of water quality in
coastal zones worldwide.
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Philippine coastal zone research reveals tropical cyclone disruption of nutrient cycling: How cycads weather the storms.»
Complicating matters further,
coastal zones behave differently depending of their location and topography.
The increase in frequency of these events that are today considered exceptional will likely push existing coastal protection structures beyond their design limits, leaving a large part of Europe's
coastal zones exposed to flooding, according to the study's authors.
Combined with other calamities, we find ourselves in a two - front war: Fire and heat that ravage inland communities, and massively destructive storms that
damage coastal zones.
Belize Alliance of Conservation Non-Government Organizations, BACONGO, stated, «we would like to express our concerns over the escalating pace of coastal development, the lack of a coordinated
national coastal zone management plan and the increasing cumulative impacts on marine resources and marine - based livelihoods.
These two cayes are great places to spot blue herons, roseate spoonbills, greatfrigate birds, reddish egrets and
other coastal zone birds.
Renowned for its lava tubes, Santa Cruz has several diverse zones from the dry,
volcanic coastal zone to the misty, forested highlands where lumbering tortoises can be seen.
As originally designated, California's
coastal zone encompassed a strip 24 nautical miles wide, including traditional shipping lanes between the Channel Islands and the shore.
Here, too, the bill appears to try to thread a needle — allowing coastal states to reject drilling projects up to 75 miles outside their
own coastal zones.
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