Sentences with phrase «damage along the coastline»

Given the probability of sea level rises, «preparedness efforts, adaptation actions and hazard mitigation undertaken today» can help prevent damage along the coastline.

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It has significantly impacted communities along the Texas coastline, including Houston, as well as other areas along the Gulf with wind and flood damage.

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

That oil spread far and wide, killing microorganisms and larger animals, marring coastlines and damaging the economies of communities along the shore.

Shrimp farms have often been established along tropical coastlines by cutting down mangroves, and their effluents have damaged neighboring fisheries and farmlands.

The bottom line from this experiment is that simply drawing a new coastline along a topographic contour is overly simplistic and greatly underestimates the damage to human infrastructure and the loss of coastal environments.