Sentences with phrase «mass damage events»

Not exact matches

In an even worse mass - bleaching event in 2001 — 2002, the global damage also confirmed a close connection with El Niño weather cycles.

A researcher accesses minor damage at Day Reef on the Great Barrier Reef following the March 2016 mass coral bleaching event.

ESA is looking to develop a spacecraft that could for the first time provide us with a «side - view» of the Sun, improving our ability to predict potentially damaging space weather events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

Rising global temperatures and associated sea level rise, growing season disruption, and increasingly severe weather events can severely damage infrastructure or tear at the fabric of societies — generating conditions of mass desperation the world over.

Water and food scarcity, flooding or extreme weather events, violent conflicts, economic collapses, and a number of other climate damages could precipitate mass migration to the United States from regions worldwide.

«It takes at least a decade for a full recovery of even the fastest growing corals, so mass bleaching events 12 months apart offers zero prospect of recovery for reefs that were damaged in 2016,» explained Dr James Kerry, who was part of the recent aerial surveys.