Sentences with phrase «helps island nations»

The earliest reports from Barbuda indicate that 90 percent of the houses on the small island were destroyed by the storm, an unsustainable level of damage, according to Carl - Friedrich Schleussner, a researcher with Climate Analytics who helps island nations prepare for climate change impacts.

Since being hit by Hurricane Maria last year, Puerto Rico has been embroiled in a power crisis, and Tesla has been doing its part helping the island nation through its products such as the Powerpack, Powerwall home battery, and solar panels.

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The island nation's government announced its support for the technology last July, stating that it would help to conduct tests which are due to start this month.

That influence remained strong enough to help Johann Sebastian Bach's music sweep across the island nation more than four centuries later.

From Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, to the Dominican Republican and other Caribbean nations in Irma's path, New York is here to help.»

In his April 7 letter, Oddo asked the DOT to help Staten Island commuters — who face one of the longest commutes in the nation — by giving them other options besides express buses to get into Midtown.

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

There are plans to sell some evacuated islands for tourism development, and the Maldivian government says the revenue would help give the island nation a future.

SINGAPORE — This is a rich island nation, and despite pressures to help combat climate change, it fully intends to stay that way.

What it means: Island states, African nations and other vulnerable countries are pushing for a system that provides funding to help them recover from disasters made worse by climate change, such as rising seas or powerful storms.

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — Veterinarians Without Borders Veterinarians Without Borders will leverage their grant from PetSmart Charities of Canada to host a first - of - its - kind educational conference in Charlottetown dedicated to sharing best practices for animal welfare agencies working in partnership with First Nations communities to help manage and prevent pet overpopulation and promote pet health in historically underserved areas of Canada's north.

«I look forward to the opportunity of helping the twin - island nation achieve even greater visibility and growth in the US,» Jack Riley said.

Duke Onkled, ruler of Gamelon, is in desperate need of help because his island nation is under attack by the evil forces of Ganon.

PUBLIC ART On Sept. 27, as part of its 250th anniversary celebration, Brown University dedicates a slave memorial by sculptor Martin Puryear that recognizes the university's «connection to the trans - Atlantic slave trade and the work of Africans and African - Americans, enslaved and free, who helped build our university, Rhode Island, and the nation.»

President Mohamed Nasheed of Maldives, a sun - baked nation of 1,200 low islands south of India, donned jeans and a hard hat earlier today and helped install 48 donated solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of his official residence in the crowded capital, Male (the photo below, taken by Mohamed Ali, is from the government Flickr.com photo stream).

The article described how a computer wizard at Skytruth, based in Shepherdstown, W. Va., was able to help a poaching patrol in Palau, a tiny Pacific island nation with a vast marine economic zone, intercept a rogue Taiwanese fishing vessel fleeing toward Indonesia.

Pacific island nations announced plans Thursday to dramatically increase the fees they charge tuna fishing boats for the right to enter their waters, saying it will boost revenue and help conservation efforts.

Second, to help the most vulnerable countries including small island nations adapt to climate change by building barriers against rising seas or developing drought - resilient crops.

As with the Marshall Islands» declaration, the Cook Islands» effort was with the help of the Pew Environment Group, which advocates island nations» involvement because of the vast scope of their territorial waters.

Manny Calonzo, representing islands and island nations as the only male winner this year, convinced the government of the Philippines to ban lead paint and then helped establish an independent certificate program to ensure paint companies followed the law.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday offered to illuminate thousands of homes in Pacific island nations with solar power in a bid to help them combat climate change and natural disasters.

Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera, 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for Islands and Island Nations, helped lead a successful campaign to establish a nature reserve in Puerto Rico's Northeast Ecological Corridor and protect the island's natural heritage from harmful develoIsland Nations, helped lead a successful campaign to establish a nature reserve in Puerto Rico's Northeast Ecological Corridor and protect the island's natural heritage from harmful develoisland's natural heritage from harmful development.

In the final hours of the conference, the governments of small, sinking island nations were delighted to learn that they, and not some global body, would control a fund to help them adapt to a warming world.

This information helps to propel action in areas where Rhode Island doesn't compare well to the nation or to the other New England states.