Sentences with phrase «lying areas of earth»
Combined with melting from mountain glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet, this could result in flooding of low - lying areas of Earth over the next century.
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Tomorrow, Ecuadorian state oil company Petroamazonas will produce the first barrel of commercial crude from the ITT (Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) fields that lie beneath Yasuní National Park, an area that some scientists have called the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth.
The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.
Furthermore, the study indicates that 7.2 % of the Earth's land area presents conditions that are favourable to the presence of the miconia tree, and «50 % of this territory lies outside of the plant's native area,» notes González - Muñoz, the main author of the study.
Some 40 % of the precious metal that has been found up to the present day comes from this area, and hundreds of tons of gold deposits still lie beneath the earth.
The Cygnus - Lyra neighborhood was chosen as the study area because it's well - populated with stars and lies high enough above the Earth's orbital plane that the sun, Earth and moon won't get in the way of Kepler's observations.
The tour is enhanced by the inclusion of some «CGH Earth» hotels, which are harmonious to the local environment with high standards - for example at the Spice Village, Periyar, the fine» 50 - mile» restaurant only uses ingredients from within 50 miles and the colonial style bar reflects its hill station history, whilst «Coconut Lagoon» is only accessible by boat and the «Eighth Bastion» lies within the Fort Cochin area.
Therefore, minutes after the treaty was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro I was passing out leaflets denouncing it as a death sentence for coral reefs and low lying islands and coastal areas, and said that we would lose most of the corals in the world in the next decade, which is what indeed happened.
Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,
A run of bad news from the climate scientists might convince a government that the breakup of the Greenland ice sheet was accelerating, and that Earth's low - lying areas were facing an imminent rise of 3 feet or more in sea level.
The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»
Coastal marshes absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere; they help filter out pollution in coastal waters; provide habitat for wildlife; help protect coastlines from erosion and storm surge; and can store huge amounts of floodwater, reducing the threat of flooding in low - lying coastal areas.
So, with confidence, Man's conclusion was:» now is 1C warmer planet than 1000y ago» Ian Plimer's Zombies can not say that: -» data for 1012AD is almost non-existent — because at that time the earth was flat — 70 % of the GLOBAL surface area didn't exist»... Because the» Fake Fundamentalist» have being constantly lying that» at that time THE WHOLE PLANET was warmer, Mann and the rest of the Swindlers can rub Fake's noses... on innocent people's expenses.
«Computer models by Hansen and others suggest that by the middle of the next century earth's average temperature may rise 4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit, possibly altering storm patterns, making crops fail, and raising sea levels to flood low - lying coastal areas.»
It is a reflection of the earth's position within the «golden zone» which is that area of planetary measure where the earth lies in the «habitable zone» of common liquid and atmospheric surface water.
That's just what you can do with EarthTime, a new online tool that blends satellite photos of Earth with data from university research programs, government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations to create eye - popping animations showing how seas rise in tandem with temperatures to swallow up low - lying areas.