Sentences with phrase «facing higher seas»

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

Not exact matches

Nova Scotia's Clearwater Seafoods, which earns almost 40 % of its revenues from exports to Europe, faces tariffs as high as 20 % on its lobster, sea scallops and shrimp, which limit its profitability and competitiveness overseas.

Early in 1947, a Bedouin shepherd accidentally found fragments of ancient scrolls inside some earthenware jars in caves high up on the rock face near the Dead Sea.

My son's high school graduation last week was a sea of faces filled with a mix of joy, exhaustion, sadness and uncertainty — not just the 18 - year - olds but their parents as well.

My son's high school graduation was a sea of faces filled with a mix of joy, exhaustion, sadness and uncertainty — not just the 18 - year - olds», but their parents».

«Government and industry responders were faced with an oil spill of unprecedented size and sea depth, pitting them in a high - stakes battle against big unknowns,» Reddy and Arey wrote in an article in Oceanus magazine.

So the first high - level slap was delivered to the face of upstart ecologists and conservationists, a slap that resulted in the enormous environmental problems of the former Soviet Union now revealed by devolution, such as the drying up of the Aral Sea.

Fox accompanies a team of NASA scientists as they drive a refurbished orange Humvee across a frozen channel in the Canadian High Arctic, facing melting sea ice, mechanical breakdown, and the threat of marauding polar bears.

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

As the world faces issues such as climate change, drug trade, organized crime, terrorism, and piracy on the high seas, «multinational responses» are needed.

The higher ones have a sea view, the lower storey rooms face the beach.

The island's feature is of high cliffs and rocks facing the open sea at the western coast.

Beach Villa - 57m2 - sea facing individual bungalows with terrace King bed, high tech equipment, mac mini

The south - facing, 10 - hectare site rises from the 70m - high cliff - face to the resort's entrance, which is about 110m above sea level, so providing all villas with great views of the Indian Ocean.

Faced with the options of either staying a peasant living in squalor with his wife or leaving to take his chances on the high sea's hoping to bring a fortune home so they can have a proper life Edward chooses to risk life and limb for his only chance to make something of himself out on the open sea.

We once again see those who must do the «dirty work», like the soldier on the battlefield, the customs officer in the Mediterranean Sea, or the doctor in charge of collecting drowned corpses... all of those individuals who, for better or worse, have the task of facing the aftermath of decisions made in high places... Order and its execution; the reality of the law of the land.

The most comprehensive global evaluation of fisheries bycatch impacts on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.

Declines in Arctic sea - ice and warming in high altitude regions can literally push habitable zones for some living things off the face of the planet.

So here we are, still facing a clear long - term picture (more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas + lots of changing climate patterns), but sufficient murk in the short run to fuel the «green noise» and «destructive interference» in climate discourse.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

The Fijian government is already underway relocating 64 villages due to the impacts of sea level rise, while a further 830 villages are deemed at high risk and may face relocation.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

In the face of higher sea levels and more intense storms, coastal communities face greater risk of rapid beach erosion from destructive storms like the intense nor» easter of April 2007 that caused this damage.

Coastal areas affected by storm surges will face increased risk both because of the increasing frequency and of storms and because of higher sea level.

They disrupted planning meetings and disputed as a plot NOAA's findings that the area faces the second - highest risk from sea - level rise of any region of its size in the U.S..

The New York Times: With its massive chalk - white face of ice and snow, Thorthormi glacier in northern Bhutan looms high against a bright blue sky, nearly 4,450 meters above sea level.

Some species in semi-enclosed seas such as the Wadden Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, also face higher risk of local extinction because land boundaries around those bodies of water will make it difficult for those species to move laterally to escape waters that may be too warm.

And older climate models did not include dynamic ice sheet vulnerabilities — like high latent - heat ocean water coming into contact with the submerged faces of sea - fronting glaciers, the ability of surface melt water to break up glaciers by pooling into cracks and forcing them apart (hydrofracturing), or the innate rigidity and frailty of steep ice cliffs which render them susceptible to rapid toppling.

This brutal practice, outlawed in U.S. waters (see Shark Finning Faces Broader Sanctions) is not regulated on the high seas or in most nations» territorial waters.

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Low - lying island such as the Maldives and Tuvalu - with highest points only a few feet above sea - level - will disappear off the face of the Earth.

Miami was founded little more than one century ago, and could face the possibility of sea level rise high enough to potentially threaten the city's critical infrastructure in another century (Strauss et al., 2013).

European ports and estuary cities are at risk with projections of sea level rise of half a metre, and US coastal cities could one day face almost daily challenges at high tide.

You have access to a pistol and a sword in Sea of Thieves, but the majority of deadly encounters you face will take place between two ships on the high seas.

So what we are faced with now is how high do we want those levels to go and are we willing to mitigate and slow the high rates of sea level rise so we can adapt.»