Sentences with phrase «from coastal rivers»

The eddies are formed by strong outflow currents from coastal rivers that are rich in nutrients from spring snowmelt.

On top of that, Goodbred found, local shrimp farmers had drilled holes into the dikes to pipe salt water from coastal rivers into their hatcheries, weakening the barriers.

Not exact matches

State regulators are seeking more information from a Massachusetts company that plans to expand its Hudson River facilities routing rail shipments of crude oil from North Dakota and western Canada to coastal refineries.

We are seeing nitrate pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and a lot of our coastal oceans near the mouth of rivers that are downstream from Big Ag production regions that use a lot of fertilizers.

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, providing nursery habitat for fish and shellfish while buffering many coastal communities from the impacts of coastal storms and sea level rise.

They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.

To understand the factors that drive these social dynamics, Barocas's team, from the University of Wyoming and the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, has spent decades spying on the coastal river otters of Alaska near Prince William Sound.

A total of fifteen adult alligators from Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Guana River in coastal Florida were equipped with Crittercam.

All eyes were on southeast Florida's St. Lucie Estuary in 2016 as it received national attention due to beach closures on the Fourth of July weekend from the massive amounts of toxic green slime that covered parts of the 7 - mile - long inlet linked to a coastal river system.

Eels migrate twice in their lifetime: once as four inch — long larvae from the Sargasso Sea to coastal waters and rivers of Europe and Northern Africa, and again after maturing for a decade or more, when they return to the Sargasso to spawn and die.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

Professor Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter said: «Carbon storage in sediments in these rivers and coastal regions could present a more secure environment than carbon stored in soil on land.

New research suggests that human activity could be increasing the movement of carbon from land to rivers, estuaries and the coastal zone indicating that large quantities of anthropogenic carbon may be hidden in regions not previously considered.

Just the short ride from Courtenay or Campbell River to the top of the ski hill is pretty, with views to the east that include the Strait of Georgia, a maze of small islands, and the coastal mountains on the mainland in the distance.

Explore the beautiful and isolated region of the southwest, visiting idyllic coastal towns, the stunning white sand beaches of Perth and sampling wine from the Margaret River region.

DAY 1 Travelling in a purpose built 4WD vehicle your experienced driver / guide will pick you up from your Cairns Accommodation and start your adventure travelling north along the scenic coastal road to Daintree River where you will enjoy morning tea and a 1 hour River Cruise.

Located on Sri Lanka's southern coastal belt is Madu Ganga or Madu River, home to many species of animals and birds from as many as sixty - four islands in Balapitiya town.

The word Mtunzini is derived from the Zulu word emthunzini which means «a place in the shade» and in the history of this coastal town it refers more to the place under the milkwood trees near the Mlalazi River.

The coastal plains of northern Zululand extend 250 kilometers southward from the Maputo River floodplain to Lake St Lucia.

Lying inland from the coast between the mouth of the Orange River and Port Nolloth, the area regarded as the Richtersveld is 8 000 square kilometres of coastal plain and sandveld, to the east of which lies the true Richtersveld — 3 000 square kilometres of geologically complex desert mountainland.

Just miles from the sandy beaches of the offshore cays, coastal swamps give way to forested plains, then rolling hills and mountains cut by river gorges.

• More discoveries, from a river's village - dotted banks to historic and charming coastal ports.

Designed for those who want to get the most from these rivers and oceans itineraries, these enriching journeys highlight the historic treasures, colorful cultures and seldom - seen sights of both inland and coastal destinations, so you'll enjoy the full Viking experience on one seamless itinerary.

Spot coastal brown bears from Katmai National Park to the Kamchatka Peninsula, search for Steller's sea eagles along the scenically stunning Zhupanova River.

They are found in ocean waters great distances from the continents as well as coastal regions near deep waters, such as near the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico and the waters off of the Costa Maya.

Un-Cruise Adventures» fleet of boutique yachts and small ships carry 22 - 88 guests on adventure and river cruises from one week to 21 nights in Alaska, British Columbia, coastal Washington, Columbia and Snake Rivers, Mexico, Hawaii, the Galápagos Islands, Costa Rica and Panama.

Whether you drive the winding Island highway north from Campbell River, sail into Hardy Bay, or fly the coastline overtop coastal rainforests and mountaintops, the route to Port Hardy hints at the adventure and discovery to come!

Twisting 72.3 miles from the Monterey County line in the south to Carmel River in the north, the drive is a destination unto itself and passes soaring coastal cliffs, pine - filled canyons and fields bedecked with wildflowers.

Designed for those who want to get the most from our rivers and oceans itineraries, these enriching journeys highlight the historic treasures, colorful cultures and seldom - seen sights of both inland and coastal destinations, so you'll enjoy the full Viking experience on one seamless itinerary.

A thin band of emerald green forests, rivers and temperate islands extend up from the far north of California to the coastal fjords of Alaska.

Set off from Brunswick Heads, a beautiful coastal village at the mouth of the river and either take a guided tour by kayak or sit back and cruise the river in the morning, afternoon or to watch the sunset.

Throw in one of the most memorable short scenic coastal drives in the area, a fantastic play area mostly built from wood and a great general store, café and bakery at the top of the hill, several vineyards nearby and in Yallingup you have a great base from which you can explore the Margaret River region.

Drive north to Picton this morning, a charming tiny village and a gateway that leads into the spectacular Queen Charlotte Sound, part of a collection of drowned river valleys that extend out from the tip of the South Island, which are also home to some of the most picturesque coastal scenery in New Zealand.

The coastal rainforest and beaches stretch from Mossman to Bloomfield River.

From there it is coastal to King George River and falls across to the Drysdale River, out to the river mouth then south past the old Pago Mission site to KalumRiver and falls across to the Drysdale River, out to the river mouth then south past the old Pago Mission site to KalumRiver, out to the river mouth then south past the old Pago Mission site to Kalumriver mouth then south past the old Pago Mission site to Kalumburu.

Ramada Ballina is a 4 star conference venue in the coastal town of Ballina on the North Coast of NSW, this venue enjoys a river frontage and water views from many of its rooms.

Extensive coastal and river cruising on the Guadalquivir and Guadiana Rivers from Seville in Spain to Faro in Portugal

Seehuisie is a double storey holiday house located a mere 50m from the ocean and is situated in Duinepark in Witsand, a small coastal town, Western Cape South Africa, where the Breede River and Indian Ocean meet.

We are just 25 minutes from the Gold Coast and 30 minutes from Byron Bay and we are an ideal hideaway to explore the 30 kilometres of expansive beaches, rivers, rocky estuaries and national parks, five of which have World Heritage listing, local markets and coastal villages that make up the Tweed Coast.

Tour highlights include visiting the world famous Bells Beach, swimming the ocean in the stunning coastal town of Lorne, Erskine Falls, koala spotting and feeding the king parrots at Kennett River and watching the sunset from the 12 Apostles or Gibson steps.

Back of the lagoon is a coastal rainforest threaded by an infinite maze of serpentine canals and streams fed by rivers flowing from the central mountain range.

Teeing off from coastal heathland and playing inland beside the Forester River, the fifth hole is a particular highlight, with the possibility of a birdie or eagle within sight.

Bali six volcanic peaks, all exceeding 2,000 meters trap rain clouds that swell the rivers rushing down from the highlands through deep narrow gorges overgrown with lush tropical vegetation to the astonishingly rich coastal plain of south.

With moods ranging from tranquil to tempestuous, the works capture the realistic in depictions of rivers, harbors, coastlines and the atmospheric effects of the coastal environment, and the frightening or fantastical, in storms, shipwrecks and sea monsters.

Exponents of Luminism included frontier painters like Missouri man George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 1879), as well as wilderness or coastal landscape artists - from the Hudson River School and other groups / locations from around America - including Fitz Hugh Lane (1804 - 1865)(Nathaniel Rogers Lane), Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904), Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900), as well as John F. Kensett (1816 - 72), Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 80), Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902), William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905), Norton Bush (1834 - 94), Edmund Darch Lewis (1835 - 1910), Alfred T. Bricher (1837 - 1908), Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926), George Tirrell, Henry Walton, and JW Hill.

The same goes for the snouts of «outlet» glaciers, where ice from the interior funnels through gaps in coastal mountain ranges, and where warming seawater has broken up clots of ice that can hold things up, like a logjam in a river.

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).

David, I havent been keeping up with all the PETM research, but I do recall that individual plankton recovered from Bass River, New Jersey show a single step CIE. Due to the high sedimentation rate of coastal fluvial systems, Bass River sediments are consistent with a much shorter duration of organic carbon release during the PETM (estimated as less than 500 years).

Barrier islands like the one's that stretch along the coast of Georgia are formed from deposition of sediments coming from Georgia's rivers, and sand being deposited along the coastal side of the island by the longshore drift.