Sentences with phrase «landslide risk»

She assessed the environmental effects of these dams in 14 categories, including the area and quality of habitat lost, the length of river channel affected, the amount of conservation land impacted, and the landslide risk.

At the same time, there is relatively little long - term information about the frequency of weather conditions that increase avalanche and landslide risks, Prokop says.

«It will take decades for forests to regenerate, and the dead trees and damaged soils will pose forest fire and landslide risks for years.»

Not exact matches

«Donald Trump's divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record - breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump - emblazoned anchor around its neck.»

In an interview on the BBC's World This Weekend, Blair said that if Theresa May won a landslide, as the polls currently suggest, the Conservatives would read it as a mandate for «Brexit at any costs» — and voters concerned about the risks of leaving the EU should press every candidate to answer whether they had an open mind about whether the final deal was in Britain's interests.

Until now, little was known about how landslides in the Himalaya could affect flood risk downstream on the Ganga Plain.

They found that large landslides in the southern, lower elevation ranges of the Himalaya are more likely to increase flood risk than those in the high mountains further north.

Knowing where landslides take place in the mountains could help us better predict whether or not large deposits of gravel will reach the Ganga Plain and increase flood risk.»

Large volumes of hard rock dumped into rivers by landslides can increase flood risk up to hundreds of kilometres downstream, potentially affecting millions of people, researchers say.

A new report details the factors leading to the disaster, the hazards that accompany landslides and steps that can be taken to mitigate landslide consequences and risk in the Pacific Northwest, with the aim of preventing future tragedies.

So far they have no way of computing the risk of an undersea landslide there, and thus the possibility of a large tsunami submerging the mid-Atlantic seaboard — although it's surely less imminent than the next major hurricane.

C) The hillsides in West Seattle along the Duwamish valley are at risk of seismically induced landsliding, such as the area shown here.

Meanwhile, disastrous events like floods, volcanos, landslides and earthquakes — the four events posing the highest risks in the provinces — led to «no large, consistent or significant effects on migration.»

And where home insurance is concerned, making sure that you're not underinsured if you live an area where wildfires or landslides are a serious risk, and that you acquire additional Earthquake Coverage in high risk areas of the state, are just a few examples of the unique insurance considerations that make understanding California insurance so important when you start shopping around.

As a rule, flooding, landslide, mudslide, and earthquake damage are not covered by a typical insurance policy, a lack that Californians are smart to address if they live in high - risk areas.

Spend too much time in one state and you win in a landslide, but you run the risk of losing elsewhere.

Tri further said the risk of subsequent landslides remained high because there was a crack spanning from the slope of Bukit Gede to areas within a 150 - meter radius on its left and right side.

The project will also cause devastating environmental damage, increasing the risk of earthquakes and landslides.

A planned tent city in Corail - Cesselesse, about 10 miles north of Port - au - Prince, is now home to about 5,000 displaced people whose previous camp was at risk from flooding or landslides.

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Mushtaq, who lives in a three - room tin - roofed house perched on a steep river bank at risk of landslides and floods, put into [continue reading...]

Having known earth science researchers who literally risked their lives on volcanoes and glaciers and landslides to liberate knowledge for all of humanity, I find this story mid-boggling.

In summary, California's green energy mandate has resulted in more local air pollution, deforestation, habitat destruction, local extirpation of species, increased landslide and forest fire risk, increased soil erosion, forest soil depletion, watershed destruction, and, most ironically, increased carbon emissions.

Such changes threaten the health of the watershed ecosystem and put nearby human communities at greater risk for more severe natural disasters such as landslides and wildfires.

The leaders of Saarc member nations have called for cross-border information sharing and regional cooperation mechanism to fight climate change and to minimise the risks of natural disasters like floods and landslides in the region.

The MacKenzie River region, which supports one of the world's last major wild rivers, has warmed by 3.1 ° F (1.7 ° C) over the past century.2, 3 This warming has endangered the long - term stability of much of the permafrost — the frozen mix of rock, soil, and ice that underlies and surrounds the river basin3, 3 — raising the risk of erosion, flooding, landslides, and other significant changes to the landscape.2, 3,4,5,6

She has raised serious questions about the proposed pipeline route, which cuts through a region with a history of landslides, seismic activity and separatist rebellions, contributing to the risk of an oil spill or sabotage.

These risks include heat stress, extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, landslides, air pollution, drought, and water scarcity.

African countries rank as at high risk in the index, partly due to their natural susceptibility to events such as floods, droughts, fires, storms or landslides.

The soil may be eroded by wind and rain, which increases the risk of flooding and landslides, or invasive species may take hold and crowd out native plants, further limiting biodiversity.

Recent intensification of permanent agriculture has had numerous negative environmental consequences: Erosion has accelerated and stream sediment loads have increased where repetitive cultivation is performed on steep slopes without appropriate conservation methods; permanent conversion of hill slopes and road building have increased the risk of landslides; irrigation of cash crops in the dry season has desiccated streams; and use of pesticides and fertilizers to sustain commercial agriculture has reduced water quality.

The most direct risks are from flooding and landslides due to increases in rainfall intensity and from sea - level rise and storm surges in coastal areas.

Deforestation loosened soil and added to risks of landslides.

This map shows the areas of St. Vincent that are at risk of landslides.

Under this section, cover is provided against natural disasters and fire - related risks — fire, bushfire, earthquake lightning, explosion, implosion, tornado, subsidence, landslides, rockslides, hurricane, tempest, cyclones, storms, flood and inundation, typhoon, riots, strikes, malicious damage, impact damage, water tanks bursting and / or overflowing, leakages through automatic sprinkler installations, pipes and apparatus / missile testing operations, volcanic eruptions and other natural calamities etc..

And where home insurance is concerned, making sure that you're not underinsured if you live an area where wildfires or landslides are a serious risk, and that you acquire additional Earthquake Coverage in high risk areas of the state, are just a few examples of the unique insurance considerations that make understanding California insurance so important when you start shopping around.

The cold and warm fronts can bring severe storm warnings and there is always the risk of earthquakes, flooding, landslides and hurricanes.

With it comes a landslide of data so large that it runs the risk of incomprehension.

The maps also reveal the risk of liquefaction — when land loses its stiffness under the stress of an earthquake and becomes like quicksand — or a landslide.