Sentences with phrase «encroaching waters»

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

By contrast, the ice above the water would become relatively unstable, its foundation melted away by the encroaching water.

Not exact matches

At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

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.

Adding to the challenge are the side effects of rapid economic development: air pollution, contaminated water, and encroaching urbanization, all of which threaten Chinese farmland.

As one local observes, water is encroaching from every direction, even from below the soil, so nobody knows where to reinforce the soil.

Players then duke it out in a 16 - person battle royale on the open water, hoarding gold and collecting bounties from sinking other ships while avoiding the encroaching, monster - filled Dead Waters.

When there was a warm phase, the water supply failed and the deserts encroached.

This guidance report shows that the success of the global response to AIDS can lead not only the encroaching virus itself but also the effects of climate change such as food and water shortages, growth in poverty and an increase in natural disasters.

The main problems as I understand it relates to water overdraft and lax land use policy that is allowing land to subside and less flow from the rivers that allows salt to encroach farther inland and building in areas that are prone to storm surge.

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.

As you can see, most of the Central Arctic Basin has ice coverage, with only the portion near Svalbard and Franz Joseph Land, and Severnaya Zemlya, showing open water encroaching above the 80 N parallel into the CAB.

In the Sahel region the Sahara desert is encroaching and the increased risk of drought is compounding existing patterns of water scarcity.

When a deer, cat, raccoon, skunk or other unwanted guest encroaches on your vegetable patch, a spray of cold water will act as a safe, harmless yet highly effective deterrent.