Sentences with phrase «like coastal erosion»

They are planning to move to Bougainville, which is 50 miles away — another island that is experiencing some of the same problems, like coastal erosion, but it's mountainous and not as vulnerable as the Carteret Islands.

Threats like coastal erosion, storms and flooding can reshape the shoreline and threaten coastal property.

DEC spokesperson Emily DeSantis says the department's operations budget would remain flat and the cuts would be to the part of the budget that pays for capital works projects, things like coastal erosion prevention and flood mitigation, that are contracted out by the department.

Not exact matches

Similarly, the land on which the house sits usually isn't going anywhere (with a few notable exceptions like coastal property prone to erosion or beach encroachment) So, take the home's value, minus 15 %, plus the street value of all the things you have in it (this is typically a different «bucket» of coverage limit, and keep in mind the insurer will pay present value, not replacement cost), and that should be your coverage limit.

In the face of higher sea levels and more intense storms, coastal communities face greater risk of rapid beach erosion from destructive storms like the intense nor» easter of April 2007 that caused this damage.

They know it from days and nights that are hotter than in the past; from more frequent and more intense hurricanes or freak years like the last one when there were none; from long periods of dry weather followed by unseasonable heavy rainfall and flooding; and from the recognisable erosion of coastal areas and reefs.

These risks are three-fold: the increased number of events like floods and cyclones; droughts in some parts of the country and in long - term effects of coastal erosion affecting a large portion of the population.

If you don't know what's happening to small islands... communities like the Carteret Islands are on the front lines of climate change, because of rising seas and severe weather — they are experiencing more severe storm surges, coastal erosion.

And the impacts are going to be made worse by slow moving disasters like sea level rise and coastal erosion.