Sentences with phrase «near coastal areas»

First Post: Rising sea levels due to climate change are threatening the survival of big cities located near coastal areas like Kolkata, Shanghai and Dhaka, said Dr RK Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
They can be found in the mainland of the Australia or near the coastal areas.
If you live near coastal areas, you may be able to collect or purchase grass shrimp.
They do not offer nationwide homeowners coverage (people living near coastal areas usually can't purchase through USAA), but it otherwise has a good reputation.
There are marine plants near the coastal areas — kelp, for example — as well as coral reefs that serve as rich ecosystems for all sorts of coral, fish...
No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.
In the regions that will be affected, the majority of people don't live in cities, but villages near coastal areas and low - lying river valleys where they cultivate crops and tend livestock.
There is another type of bearded dragon where they natural habitat is near the coastal area.

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ERIC Streitberg is relentlessly pursuing his pipedream of expanding considerably oil and gas output in the Dongara production licence area near the coastal town of Dongara.
• Brevard County Emergency Management officials announced a mandatory order for more than 100,000 residents living on Merritt Island, an area near the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida, and along the coastal areas to leave their homes and condominiums beginning 3 p.m. Friday.
In early April 2011, the Rafael team wrote a chapter in military history and won international glory when a first operational battery deployed by Air Defense Command near Ashkelon intercepted in flight a Grad rocket meant to hit a residential area in the southern coastal city.
A woman in a beautiful fishing village near Trang, in the southern border area, was trying to recover the coastal environment and said, «Don't eat too much shrimp, please.
17 - 18), the tribe of Dan migrates from the central coastal area (near the Philistines, and beyond a doubt forced out by the Philistines) to north Canaan, demonstrating en route the power of any bully to act as he would (see especially Judg.
In Washington, good early hunting spots are the tideland areas and adjoining farmlands in the Skagit Flats, the potholes and marshes near Spokane and the coastal bays of Grays Harbor and Willapa.
Other areas in the Afar region are below sea level, however, and could see flooding before that if similar rifting occurs near the coastal volcanoes to the north and east that form a natural levee against the sea.
Major challenges in the near future include assigning clearer attribution to sea ice as a primary driver of such dynamics, especially in terrestrial systems, and addressing pressures arising from human use of arctic coastal and near - shore areas as sea ice diminishes.
Previous studies, including work by Cai, have shown that acidification can be particularly serious in nutrient - rich coastal waters which often contain areas with too little oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide near the bottom.
Appointments are available in the Portland / Vancouver area, as well as coastal communities near the gallery in Cannon Beach.
Two areas that have earned a reputation as prime destinations for relaxation and spa services are along the beaches of Puerto Galera, and in the coastal region near Dumaguete, which is known in the Philippines as «the city of the gentle people.»
Hotels near Plymouth also make a convenient base for those wanting to explore the surrounding area, with its excellent coastal walks, visitor attractions and Dartmoor National Park close by.
It means that community's beach has near - perfect ocean water quality, potable water quality, coastal sanitation areas, treated waste and run - off water, garbage containers and very little litter.
Fixed the unnatural looking graphic issue on some trees in coastal areas near Mediah when texture quality was set low.
The most affected populations are the urban poor — i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries — who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.
A note of caution: To avoid erroneous ice concentration along coasts (satellite signal mixed from land and ocean), near coastal - areas have to be excluded.
A nice example is a near flooding situation in Northern Netherlands (January 2012), caused by a combined occurrence of a saturated soil due to excessive antecedent precipitation, a heavy precipitation event in the coastal area and a storm surge with a duration of several days that hindered the discharge of excess water from the area.
Many places refuse to turn over climate data, BEST adjusted and cherry picked much of the data they used, Coastal areas appear to be heavily effected by coastal winds that are likely very very poorly documented, Non-coastal wind effected areas seem to have little to no warming, «Free» / online unadjusted data appears to be mostly at or near satellite data start thus provides little extra info about the past, Looking for help from anyone who has Europe based original data outside of the «taxpayer funded yet refuse to turn over data to the public / taxpayer groups».
But he says there's near - certainty that coastal areas along the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering and Beaufort seas will be warm through October.
The risk to property owners at the «wildland - urban interface» in California (more than 5 million homes in southern coastal California, the Bay Area, and north of Sacramento) is projected to increase with the increase in wildfires near these areas.
In 1999, he was working as an environmental scientist for the EPA when he heard about two big resorts planned in the coastal area near where he used to surf in the 80s.
A new study by the Wind Energy and Solar Energy Resources Evaluation Centre, run by China's Meteorological Administration, put the near - shore wind resource at 200 GW, at depths of 2 — 25 meters, which are ideal for in - shore and inter-tidal wind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tides.
Last August, I wrote about what that near - term worse case scenario might look like: Should its melt rate continue to trend above previous estimates, Antarctica may produce an extra foot of sea level rise by 2100, which would pose a threat to low - lying coastal areas worldwide.
According to the authors, «Several daily maximum [Extreme Heat Events] near the 1930's led to 1930 - 2010 trends of daily maximum [Extreme Heat Events] decreasing» and «Maps indicated negative trends in the interior of the [continental United States] and positive trends in coastal and southern areas.
Northrop Grumman Foundation and EarthEcho International Invite Australian Teachers (grades 6 - 8) to Examine Impacts of Plastic Pollution Along Australia's Southern Coast FALLS CHURCH, Va. — April 12, 2018 — The Northrop Grumman Foundation and EarthEcho International invite Australia - based teachers (grades 6 - 8) to join Philippe Cousteau Jr. on an exploration of the effects of development and pollution on coastal areas near Melbourne, Australia.
However, the removal of the altimeter from NPOESS is not considered a critical issue for climate, as ALT would not have provided a climate - quality sea surface height record due to the NPOESS Sun - synchronous orbit, nor would it have provided information about inland waters and near - coastal areas.
As Sheboygan is a coastal city right on the banks of the Great Lake Michigan, flood risk can have an effect on the Sheboygan insurance quotes that homeowners find for a property in areas near the lake, such as the desirable South Pier District.
In coastal markets, near tech hubs and areas with mass - transit - dependent populations, renters will pay a premium for these units.
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