Sentences with phrase «flooded areas increased»

While residents in the most flooded areas increased their credit card balances on average by $ 700 (a 22 percent increase over their average balance of $ 3200 prior to the storm), the increase was only temporary, with subsequent quarters showing statistically insignificant changes to credit card balances.

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For example, the way roads are laid out in newly developed areas can either accelerate or slow down run - off and the paving of lanes in our urban areas has lessened «permeability» and thus increased the likelihood of flooding.

Using flood - control funds, the county has proposed increasing the wetland areas at the park at the expense of lagoons and open space that residents say now are used for recreational purposes.

Hurricane Sandy has caused flooding in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, including in several areas where the Bloomberg Administration has supported increased residential development, such as Williamsburg.

Homeowners in certain areas of the UK are at increased risk of coastal, river or groundwater flooding, and many homeowners have already experienced the devastation that flooding brings.

«As extreme weather becomes the new normal, homes and businesses are faced with increasing risks — especially in flood - prone areas,» Governor Cuomo said.

The increasing fragility of the aging levee system, and more people building in low - lying areas susceptible to flooding.

Scientists have shown how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the impact of deadly floods in one of Earth's most densely populated areas.

«These river structures and levees have increased the stream velocity that keeps sediments suspended but also during flooding increase peak flows in downstream areas.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

The revised maps are the first update in the coastal areas of Maryland in 25 years and confirm both increases and decreases in the 100 - year flood elevations over this period of time.

Furthermore, heavy rains and floods increased the speed at which plague reached new areas.

The number of heavy precipitation events will continue to increase in the assessment area, and impacts from flooding and soil erosion may also become more damaging.

Many are also sinking, increasing the risk of flooding, a study on the San Francisco Bay area shows.

Should capital - intensive businesses be located in flood risk areas and increase flood protection, or should they be (re) located to areas that are less vulnerable to flooding?

«The results show that people in coastal areas are more aware of flood threats than those living in inland flood zones, and that populations in inland areas are increasing.

As the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report notes, models predict that increasing temperature ought to cause greater precipitation extremes in both directions — both drought and flooding, though there are likely more areas of heavy precipitation.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

«In any coastal area there's extra value in property, [but] climate change, insofar as it increases risks for those properties from any specific set of hazards — like flooding and storm surge — will decrease value.»

Long - term risks can arise from purely social causes (e.g., those associated with political or economic institutions, violence, and technology), but often arise from the interaction of humans with the Earth system (e.g., climate change; ozone depletion; resource depletion; pandemics; flood and seismic risk in areas subject to increasing development).

The IV therapy consists of amino acids (the natural building block of protein) combined with vitamins and nutrients is administered intravenously in order to flood the brain, restoring neurotransmitters, manufacturing new neurotransmitters and receptors which promotes healing of the damaged area of the brain and allows for increased cellular energy production.

While every home is in a flood plain, those in high - risk areas will see the biggest cost increases, and all NFIP policies will be subject to an annual surcharge of $ 25 for a primary residence and $ 250 for all others.

Vacation Homes are often purchased on coastal areas, which may add flood insurance or increase your typical insurance policy or association dues.

Some homes are located in areas of increased natural risks, such as bushfire, flood or cyclone.

2009 Accomplishments • Restored a 1.4 - acre area adjacent to the existing tidal lagoon to a native brackish wetland • Expanded the tidal lagoon to improve coho salmon and steelhead trout habitat • Created an emergent wetland for California red - legged frog breeding habitat • Reconfigured the southern end of the parking lot to increase natural creek function and reduce flooding

On the other hand dry areas will get drier as temperature increases — more floods more droughts — less agriculural production

The share of capital and population installed in flood - prone area can be increasing with growth, making disaster consequences (when a disaster occurs) grow more rapidly than wealth.

Since this is the case, that the ENSO cycle is so much shorter, there is no relation between the two phenomena (ENSO and GW), with the exception that GW may trigger a change in the nature of ENSO, increasing its frequency (i.e. reducing the time it takes to complete a cycle) and / or increasing its intensity (putting people in affected areas at risk of experiencing worse famine - causing droughts, flooding, and storms).

Much of the increased flooding in lowland areas has been attributed to the continued felling of the Himalayan forest...»

Nick Gotts >... disappearance of high - altitude glaciers and snows on which around 1/6 of the world's population depend for water supply; drought - affected areas increasing; flood events increasing; disruption of fisheries; increase in malarial areas.

this has always seemed so pitifully obvious: storms don't have to be more powerful or more frequent; there just has to be more stuff built in storm - prone areas to get blown and flooded away, and the cost of the damage necessarily increases accordingly.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

As floods increase due to climate change, the risk of toxic chemical spills in these areas will also increase.

It would also raise the risk of tidal flooding, and in areas that are expected to see an increase in rainfall, flash flooding and river flooding would compound the flood risk associated with coastal waters.

Meanwhile more heavy rains increase local flood risks over the southern US and especially East Africa, where malaria might strike in flooded areas.

This rise will greatly increase the area's exposure to flooding.

Hanoi, Viet Nam, 26 February 2018 — In his welcome remarks to participants of the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) workshop, APN Secretariat Director, Mr. Seiji Tsutsui underscored that «Southeast Asia is a natural disaster - prone region, and it is predicted that disasters such as floods, typhoons, high - tides and landslides will be more extreme because of the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and increasing population concentration in urban areas.»

New studies also found high risk areas such as Hampton Roads in Virginia now featured tens of thousands of properties under such serious threat of flooding that only FEMA will provide them with insurance — a number that will continue to increase along with the sea levels (globally at 3.3 millimeters of increase per year but as high as 7 - 8 mm per year in some regions).

It highlights several implications for this sector, including altered seasonality, desertification and floods, damages caused by increased incidence of natural hazards, coastal erosion and loss of beach areas, and loss of natural and archeological attractions.

Hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by rising sea levels, increased precipitation, inland floods, more frequent and stronger cyclones and storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold.

It argues that investments should start with low - regret options, with measures that tackle the weather risks that countries already face, such as increased investment in water storage in drought - prone basins or protection against storms and flooding in coastal zones and / or urban areas.

Heat, flood and drought - related mortality and morbidity may increase; changes in the distribution of plant species and animals are likely to contribute to changing ranges of infectious diseases and allergic disorders; higher concentrations of ground - level ozone and particulate matter in urban areas may increase the frequency of cardio - respiratory and cardio - vascular diseases.

Urbanization creates large areas of impervious surfaces (such as roads, pavement, parking lots, and buildings) that increased immediate runoff, and heavy downpours can exceed the capacity of storm drains and cause urban flooding.

The National Flood Insurance Program, designed to protect Americans from catastrophic floods, has failed in almost every way, encouraging people to buy and build in flood - prone areas while increasing the cost and magnitude of disasters.

As Hardball Talk explains, «The Howard Terminal / Jack London Square area of Oakland has been identified as susceptible to dramatically increased flooding as a result of projected sea level rise due to climate change.

* 20 to 30 % of plant and animal species likely to be at increased risk of extinction * many millions more people than today projected to experience floods every year due to sea level rise * increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone in urban areas * hundreds of millions of people exposed to increased water stress

But the WMO says there was a 16 % decline in deaths due to storms and a 43 % decline in those from floods, thanks mainly to better early warning systems and increased preparedness, and despite an increase in populations in disaster - prone areas.

Heavily populated coastal areas will be at greatest risk due to increased flooding.

For example, because the sea level in the New York City area rose by about a foot between 1900 and 2012, when Hurricane Sandy struck, about 80,000 more people were affected by flooding in New York and New Jersey than would have been without that increase.

The frequency of floods in small river basins is very likely to increase, but that may not be true of larger watersheds because intense rain is usually confined to more limited areas.