Sentences with phrase «loss of coastal wetlands»

That means he's had a front - row seat to the effects of sea - level rise and the loss of coastal wetlands, dunes, and other natural barriers against powerful storms.

With the high scenario, loss of coastal wetlands is almost total, particularly in California.

Not exact matches

«Back of the envelope [calculations] suggest that what we're going to lose from this spill is nowhere close to the background rates of wetland loss,» says Alex Kolker, a coastal geologist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin.

Warming of 3 C (5.4 F) would put many millions more people at risk of coastal flooding and lead to the loss of about 250,000 square km of wetlands and drylands.

Scientists expect a warming world to drive further sea - level rise over this century and beyond.3, 10,11 New York City faces increases in coastal flooding, the extent and frequency of storm surge, erosion, property damage, and loss of wetlands.3, 12,13

From using coastal wetlands to protect New York to the tragedy of mangrove loss leading to cyclone deaths, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that past decisions to dredge, drain, deforest and otherwise mess up our coastal landscapes can have dire, unintended consequences.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

The move was seen as a necessary countermeasure to widespread coastal loss and degradation, which had already resulted in over 90 percent of the state's wetlands being lost and in large fisheries population declines, among other harmful consequences.

Likewise, the $ 19 billion in losses New York City sustained from Hurricane Sandy would have been substantially less had the city not previously lost 85 percent of its coastal wetlands and 90 percent of its freshwater wetlands to waterfront development.