Sentences with phrase «coasts along the ocean»

The landscape of Fuerteventura is impressive, wild coasts along the ocean, volcanoes, deserts are eyes killers) You can take a bike or bus, or a car and explore the island.

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The Trump offshore drilling plan would let oil suppliers drill in protected areas of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans — places where governors, attorneys general and lawmakers along the East and West Coasts oppose offshore drilling.

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

Each also felt rewarded by the natural beauty of their respective sites, from the «most beautiful sunsets» LaBoda witnessed along the Gulf Coast, to the lush greenery and teal blue ocean Clementi said she saw in St. Thomas.

Leaving the abbey, re-board your coach and drive south along the east coast of the island for panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and coast en route to idyllic Bathsheba.

It was and remains the original North Coast ocean - exposure area, allowing for high acidity along with the growth restraints from the climate and soil type to force lots of flavor in the grapes.

The ocean plays a big part in the region's history, with shipwrecks and caves dotted along the coast.

On the basis of these reports the United States Hydrographic Office prepares a daily memorandum which is sent to sixteen branch Hydrographic Offices along the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico.

«Ocean acidification can affect individual marine organisms along the Pacific coast, by changing the chemistry of the seawater,» said lead author Brittany Jellison, a Ph.D. student studying marine ecology at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

«Measuring the strength of olivine is critical to understanding how strong tectonic plates are, which, in turn, matters to how plates break and create subduction zones like those along the Cascadia plate, which runs down the west coast of Canada to the west coast of the United States,» said Warren, a geologist in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

«My state is ground zero for this,» emphasized U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, and he added that 75 % of the population lives along the coast, and the ocean in the southern part of the state has risen eight inches over the last four years.

The work of Krech, Gerlache, Borchgravink, and Bruce had not yet been done; the examinations of the «Belgica,» the «Francais,» and the «Pourquoi Pas» had not yet made known the extension of Palmer Land to the southwestward along the southern confines of the Pacific Ocean; the explorations of the German Antarctic Expedition in the «Gauss» had not yet confirmed the conclusion of Wilkes that the long coast which he had discovered in 1840 extended still farther to the westward; the Antarctic Continent had not yet been entered at any point and consequently that acquaintance with the general topography which constitutes the first essential to the scientific investigation of a country was wholly wanting,

Once a year, they migrate from the deep ocean to shallow water along the Pacific Coast of North America.

Those efforts, in turn, enable Web programs and browsers to find and crudely understand the tagged information — such as finding all Flickr photographs of sunrises and sunsets taken along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

An increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails that live along North America's western coast.

Researchers found that acidified ocean water appears to have pitted shells (inset) on pteropods collected along the U.S. West Coast.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Scientists excavating the ocean floor have found huge chunks of frozen methane along Hydrate Ridge, about 60 miles off the coast of Oregon.

Part of the fresh water likely originates from melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet north of the Young Sound and is transported with the East Greenland ocean current along the eastern coast of Greenland.

To Erlandson, these miniature trees look like a trail left by mariners who voyaged along the stormy northern coasts of the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the Americas during the last Ice Age.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

During the spring and summer months, deep ocean water rich in carbon dioxide periodically wells up along the California coast when surface waters are pushed offshore by strong winds.

«In a subsea trench along the coast, the Pacific Ocean floor submerges beneath the continent building up tension that is released in earthquakes,» explains Professor Onno Oncken of the GFZ.

A study of California mussels, a key species in the rocky intertidal ecosystems of the West Coast, indicates that the effects of ocean acidification will vary from place to place along the coast depending on a range of interacting facCoast, indicates that the effects of ocean acidification will vary from place to place along the coast depending on a range of interacting faccoast depending on a range of interacting factors.

«Shellfish response to ocean acidification depends on other stressors: Vulnerability of mussels to harmful effects from acidic seawater varies among different locations along the West Coast, study finds.»

That's because a current of cold ocean water moves from north to south along the West Coast, cooling the coastal Pacific and removing the threat of hurricanes, which form only when low pressure systems siphon off the energy from warm ocean water.

One year later, several cases were observed across the Atlantic Ocean, in wild Magellanic penguin chicks along the coast of Argentina.

Climate change could further shift wind patterns and ocean currents, expanding cold water further north along the coasts of Isabela and Fernandina and driving fish populations higher, according to the new study.

Something had to have changed along the coast to explain the dramatic surge in radium in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.

Researchers hope NEPAN will be the first link in an extensive listening network that would extend along the entire U.S. East Coast, and eventually to waters around the U.S., to monitor marine mammals, fish and ocean noise over time periods ranging from days and weeks to months and years.

The band of cold water off Chile's coast is produced by the Humboldt Current, a slow northerly ocean flow that runs more than 3,000 miles along the Pacific coast of South America, from southern Chile all the way to the equator.

According to Thomas Krumpen, «It takes about two and a half years for the ice formed along the coast of the Laptev Sea to be carried across the Arctic Ocean and past the North Pole into the Fram Strait between the east cost of Greenland and Svalbard.»

If it follows the path of previous icebergs from the Larsen Ice Shelf, it will drift north along the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula before heading northeast into the south Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA.

The shells of tiny marine snails that live along North America's western coast are dissolving in an increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean.

His team tracked the northernmost sightings of 30 nudibranch species along the US coast during 2014, when a large portion of the eastern Pacific Ocean was unusually warm — a phenomenon that came to be known as «the blob ``.

Now researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have devised a simple way to predict a river delta's shape, given two competing factors: its river's force in depositing sediment into the ocean, and ocean waves» strength in pushing that sediment back along the coast.

Along parts of the California coast, homes and cities are right at the ocean's edge and vulnerable to sea level rise and coastal erosion.

Warm ocean waters along Alaska's coast have also contributed, Rick Thoman, climate science and services manager for the NWS's Alaska region, said.

The reason could be linked to rising sea surface temperatures — fueled in part by global warming — as seen in ocean buoy data collected along the U.S. coast.

``... In particular, there was a period in the late - 1980s and early - 1990s when retreat slowed down along most of the coast, and we don't see any cause for this in the temperature records — so there may be some other factors at work, perhaps ocean temperature.»

Surface ocean temperatures along the West Coast have a strong influence on nearby land weather, affecting air temperatures, and they are closely linked with daily fog coverage.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

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In the North West US along the Pacific Coast the oyster industry has been having a hard time for the last two or three years, partly because of ocean acidification, which is related with the upwelling of deep water.

Delray Beach Delray Beach, Florida is a small town on Florida's East coast, along the Atlantic Ocean.

After watching European tourists come and go for many years, Fettah takes off on an epic ocean journey along the Moroccan Atlantic coast to Europe on a windsurf board.

As we cruise along the Pacific Coast Highway, verdant mountains to our left and the ocean shimmering to our right, I realize I might have undersold the glamor aspect.

We maneuver though Carmel out to the famous California Highway 1, and soon we're cruising along the coast, the Pacific Ocean lapping to our right.

After following the broad Columbia river to the ocean, I was treated to more natural beauty along the Oregon coast, driving amidst the Range Rover Sport amidst redwood forests.