Sentences with phrase «encroaching sea»

Quality of life trends in Shismaref, Alaska will reach static points on graphs when the village site is abandoned due to encroaching sea level, and the residents scatter.

The story of beach homes threatened by the encroaching sea is an example of why we need to act now to slow climate change.

Places troubled by encroaching sea are usually subject to subsidence.

Even with near zero CO2, and the Sun 3 - 4 % dimmer than now, the tropics require albedo help from clouds and encroaching sea ice for global freeze - 0ver — hence, an interesting science problem that needs careful cold - climate cloud and ocean dynamics modeling.

Shell managed to drill for about a day before encroaching sea ice forced the company to move its rig out of harm's way.

But late Monday the company announced that it was pulling the floating drill rig's multiple anchors and moving it off the well because of encroaching sea ice.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, for example, certain parts of San Pedro Town lost as much as 30 feet to the encroaching sea.

The reigning wisdom has been that humpbacks feed in the Antarctic through the summer until krill move from offshore waters to take shelter from predators below the encroaching sea ice in the Austral fall.

If burning coal causes the flooding of coastal fishing villiges or, as I believe, the flooding of entire coastal regions by violent storm and encroaching seas — ala New Orleans and Bangladesh — people are not only displaced, they die.

For example, Floridian real estate could be decimated by encroaching seas.

Not exact matches

Along the coast of southern California, for example, low outflows increase the likelihood that saltwater could encroach into an aquifer, particularly as sea levels rise.

(Parenthetically, tide gauge measurements of sea level are made relative to the adjacent land, and have shown sea level rises encroaching on the shoreline).

«But it's important to remember that we won't sit there passively whilst the sea encroaches.

First, while state laws often prohibit SEAs from encroaching on district autonomy, because Barbero's office in effect is the district, she has been able to intervene directly in schools where the core curriculum was not working.

In my worst post-apocalyptic imaginings, there is a place in my mind where a ravenous sea has encroached over every surface, ankle to knee to thigh to belly to throat.

Most recently, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried has overseen UCS's leading - edge work around sea level rise and coastal flooding, including «Encroaching Tides: How Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding Threaten U.S. East and Gulf Coast Communities over the Next 30 Years» and «The US Military on the Front Lines of Rising Seas.&raqsea level rise and coastal flooding, including «Encroaching Tides: How Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding Threaten U.S. East and Gulf Coast Communities over the Next 30 Years» and «The US Military on the Front Lines of Rising Seas.&raqSea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding Threaten U.S. East and Gulf Coast Communities over the Next 30 Years» and «The US Military on the Front Lines of Rising Seas.»

An increasing number of polar bears are encroaching on local communities and lengthening their stays because of melting sea ice.

As sea levels rise with climate change, beaches are losing ground against ever - encroaching waters.

The sea levels are rising, encroaching up the coast and making storm surges more destructive (especially at high tide, as happened with Sandy).

They found that rising air temperatures above the southeastern Weddell Sea will thin the ice there, and warm ocean water will increasingly encroach beneath the Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf.

The seas encroach unto us as does the sand.