Sentences with phrase «critical wetlands»

This lateral pipeline would cross through critical wetlands, farmlands, and water bodies, while threatening landowners with eminent domain.

Eventually, this work in Louisiana can be expanded to address other critical wetland areas throughout the nation and the world, making this study a first step, with the potential for major global impact.»

The study also will help inform the restoration of critical wetland areas and provide data essential for implementing new policy and planning efforts in riverfront communities.

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Deforestation is stopped, rivers are safeguarded by buffer zones, critical on - farm ecosystems (such as wetlands) are protected, and forest patches are preserved.

«Environmental watering plays a critical role in helping protect and restore wetlands in the Basin, including iconic wetlands of international importance such as the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth, Narran Lakes, Macquarie Marshes, Hattah Lakes.

His score reflects his votes for cutting down New York's wetlands, stalling the state's effort to modernize our energy infrastructure, giving handouts to fossil fuel companies, and shortchanging the DEC on critical funding.

A «critical habitat» designation, which is what the group is seeking for the big cats, would not halt development, rather it would mean denying any federal - level permits for landscape alteration — say, draining a wetland or filling in a riparian area — that would make the area less advantageous for the cats.

The decline of wetlands is nearing a critical threshold below which the losses could inflict severe and lasting harm on ecosystems — driving numerous migratory bird species to the brink of extinction and jeopardizing nearly 20 % of the world's fisheries, warns a new report from Chinese and U.S scientists.

«The fundamental importance of this process in freshwater wetlands across broad biogeographic provinces underscores the critical role that anaerobic oxidation of methane plays on Earth, even in freshwater habitats.»

This often involves growing expanses of impermeable concrete that pave over critical environments such as wetlands and prairie lands that absorb floodwaters, thereby increasing downstream runoff.

«During a time when the climate was getting wetter and the wetlands expanding, this critical seasonal resource that is ripe at the peak of the flooding season when other resources are dispersed and scarce, residents of Monte Castelo began to grow larger rice»

Including littoral, wetland, and mangrove ecosystems, to seagrass beds interspersed with lagoonal reefs, to the outer barrier reef platform and oceanic atolls, this ecological gradient provides for a full complement of life - cycle needs, supporting critical spawning, nesting, foraging, and nursery ecosystem functions.

Its RAMSAR wetlands are an internationally declared feeding ground for migratory birds and a critical habitat for rare and endangered species.

Some of the resiliency measures looked at by New York, which other coastal communities can consider, include floodwalls, levee systems, relocation of critical building infrastructure such as electrical equipment and wetland replenishment.

As water becomes scarcer around the world because of mismanagement, untapped strategies are critical, from capturing runoff efficiently and wetlands development to tertiary treatment of wastewater.

In Louisiana, it's not just beaches, but wetlands that can affected — destroying critical wildlife habitat, hurting tourism and ruining the livelihoods of fishermen throughout the region.

Nature works best: Rivers, streams, wetlands, floodplains, and forests provide a suite of critical services like clean water and flood protection, and should be viewed as essential and effective components of our water infrastructure.

At the largest scale, the preservation and restoration of natural landscapes (such as forests, floodplains and wetlands) are critical components of green infrastructure.

Constructed wetlands are artificial filtration wetlands, which provide critical animal and plant habitat as well as mitigate impacts of waste water and storm water run - off.

23 February 2015 A two - year assessment of the potential to develop blue carbon projects on Louisiana's coast estimates that carbon finance revenue can provide up to $ 1.6 billion in critical funding to assist with wetland restoration over the next 50 years.

So too can wetlands, which not only are a great carbon sink, but they play a critical role in taking the brunt of large floods from hurricanes.

And in nearby Hyde Park, we supported a new wetlands ordinance extending buffers around these critical wildlife habitats and flood - abatement areas.

These rates are expected to increase over the coming century, imperiling the survival of 7,000 acres of freshwater tidal wetlands that protect riverfront communities and critical infrastructure from flooding and provide habitat for species on which commercial fisheries along the entire Atlantic coast depend.

about HUFFINGTON POST: Rapid Protection of Wetlands Critical to Environmental and Economic Health of the Hudson Valley

John Thobe, with Sand Dollar Realty, South Padre Island, Texas, played a critical role in the launch of a mitigation bank in his area several years ago when he helped identify almost a half dozen developers who were interested in developing several local wetlands.

Congress made it clear several years ago that the process for granting development permits in small, marginal wetlands should be quick and easy without endangering critical environmental areas.