Sentences with phrase «in coastal communities world»

Higher average sea levels due to climate change will lead to higher storm surges and elevated flooding risks in coastal communities world - wide, even if the intensity or frequency of storms remains unchanged.

Not exact matches

To compute how additional pollution from ships increases risk of disease for exposed populations, especially those living in coastal communities or along major shipping lanes and far inland in some nations like India, the team incorporated important underlying health information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma Network.

These photos explore the human capacity for resilience in some of the richest and poorest of the world's coastal communities.

Around the world, from Alaska's remote North Slope to the island nations in the South Pacific, coastal communities are watching their shorelines slip away into the rising seas.

I am a retired professional man living in a coastal community close to Rainbow Beach and world famous Fraser Island.

Home to some of the most prestigious courses in the world, this tranquil coastal community makes a perfect destination to experience nature at its finest, while enjoying world - class golf.

Santa Barbara Return Jobs to US or the Collective Memory of the Worst Place to Live in the World Today If You Are Not White is a presentation of new work by Alejandro Cartagena that peels away at the immediate beauty and presents new impressions of the coastal community of Santa Barbara, California.

That, in turn, fuels sea - level rise, said Francis, who called rising seas a «monstrous» issue for coastal communities around the world.

It would help connect students from communities in different parts of the world pondering similar issues — like coastal changes from rising sea levels.

Leading scientists also warn that this process is endangering the entire planet: Arctic warming and melting cause more extreme weather in the mid-latitudes and sea level rise that will have catastrophic consequences for low - lying coastal communities around the world.

«With less than 3 % of the world's oil in our offshore areas, it's obvious that drilling will not solve our energy crisis but does jeopardize our coastal communities and economies.»

This week divers from different coastal communities around the world wrapped the bright yellow crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs in a series of underwater dives.

Sea levels presumedly will rise by say 5 metres but this will not be uniform around the world and the rise will be fairly gradual in any case and coastal communities will have time to mitigate its effect.

«Global warming may profoundly affect animals, plants, and coastal communities around the world,» von Weizsäcker added, «and Bren School researchers have been at the forefront in terms of clarifying the challenges and presenting attractive responses to them.

A recent World Bank study on the effects of sea level rise estimated that a minimum of 57 million people would be displaced by a 1 - meter rise in sea level and many coastal cities and communities would be at significant risk.

This activity report showcases a set of case studies that present the work of a wide range of financed and supported projects that make a case for further investment in marine protected areas to restore the health of oceanic and coastal ecosystems, strengthen resilience in the face of climate change, sustain fisheries and other economic activities, and improve the lives of the world's poorest communities.

These communities — the poor in coastal cities and on low - lying islands — are among the world's most vulnerable to climate change and the least able to marshal the resources to adapt, a new report finds.

This would be devastating to coastal communities around the world, including in the United States in the coming decades as storm surges reach further inland and waters rise.