Sentences with phrase «of coastal countries»

Reefs and mangroves also contribute significantly to the economies of coastal countries by providing opportunities for tourism and for harvesting of resources.

This is a Texas - size area of international water that includes the North Pole and is encircled by the exclusive economic zones of the coastal countries.

And yet the grape hit the ground running in this beautiful stretch of coastal country.

Not exact matches

The submarine was designed to «destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time,» the BBC reported.

In five decades of traveling, I've crossed countries by rickshaw, pedicab, bus, car, minivan, and bush taxi; a handful by train (Italy, Switzerland, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, and Greece); two by riverboat (Gabon and Germany); Norway by coastal steamer; Gambia and the Amazonian parts of Peru and Ecuador by motorized canoe; and half of Burma by motor scooter.

I was disturbed to read about how Coda Resources saved money by moving its manufacturing from coastal China to the interior of the country [«A Cheaper China,» December].

If you've ever dreamed of owning your own beachside retreat, a private coastal hideaway with lush ocean views... or a lakeside home on a pristine tropical mountain lakeside surrounded by rolling hills of cool pine forests and fertile pastures... in a country with world - class health care, and affordable daily living... then you should turn your Read more...: Fast Track Costa Rica: Lifestyle & Opportunity Conference 2018

If you've ever dreamed of owning your own beachside retreat, a private coastal hideaway with lush ocean views... or a lakeside home on a pristine tropical mountain lakeside surrounded by rolling hills of cool pine forests and fertile pastures... in a country with world - class health care, and affordable daily living... then you should turn your attention now to Costa Rica.

Oil plays in North Dakota, Texas, and elsewhere around the country may have reversed declining US production, but much of that oil is also ending up on rail cars bound for coastal refineries.

Lack of access to central and coastal communities, beyond Roseau, the country's capital, and Melville, have hampered needs assessments and humanitarian relief efforts.

Now coastal city real estate is expensive and cooling off, but midland real estate continues to do quite well as people move to lower cost areas of the country and work remotely thanks to technology.

Just as coastal conceit can devalue what comes out of «flyover country,» our First - world conceit can blind us to what is happening in the church «out there» among the «thems.»

occupied a territory in the sparsely settled central hill country of Canaan bounded on the cast by the Jordan, on the west by the coastal plains, and on the north and south by strong Canaanite city - states.

It is a staple throughout much of the southern US and especially many «low country» coastal towns (think Charleston, New Orleans, or Jekyll Island, GA).

In coastal parts of Mexico, seafood, ranging from shellfish to tuna, is substituted for the beef or pork, while in other parts of the country it is made with blended guajillo chiles, and sautéed onions and tomatillos.

While Pacifica Del Mar continually offers its signature menu items that endure as guest favorites, such as the ever - popular Sugar - Spiced Salmon ($ 29) with Chinese beans, mustard sauce and garlic mashed potatoes, Chef O'Mary - Berwald draws from her Peruvian heritage and penchant for the clean, bright flavors of Mediterranean coastal countries to create complimentary seasonal menus reflecting her distinct perspective.

«San Diego's picturesque coastal views and Southern California charm have made the city one of the country's leading tourist destinations and the changes being made continue to highlight this.»

Figuring that he would never get a chance to compete as a swimmer, he gave up the sport and instead began concentrating on kayak racing and surf - ski racing, both popular pastimes in the coastal communities of his country.

Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party, NDP, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, says she will build four salt companies along the coastal areas of the country, saying the salt revenue will be more than what Ghana earns from gold when well developed.

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Those of us safely ensconced in thriving coastal cities and professional careers ignore the rest of the country at our peril.

It has come to my notice and indeed the notice of most Ghanaians that about 200 trucks of premix fuel meant to power fishing boats in our coastal areas have been diverted to pump stations in the country and sold to unsuspecting motorists.

The satellite, GhanaSat 1, was developed with support from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and has been embedded with low and high resolution cameras to take pictures of Ghana and provide data that can be used to monitor the coastal areas of the country.

The satellite, GhanaSat 1, has been embedded with low and high - resolution cameras to take pictures of Ghana and provide data that can be used to monitor the coastal areas of the country and possibly serve the sanitation needs Dr. McBagonluri suggested.

The President also revealed that plans are underway for the construction of mini-fishing harbours and landing sites across the coastal belt of the country.

So cholera quickly spread from the interior to the coastal city of St. Marc, and from there it overran the country.

For one thing, the study was limited to countries where surveys had already been conducted, which leaves out major coastal regions including South America and much of Africa and Asia.

According to the study, countries with coastal borders — 192 in all — discharge plastic into the world's oceans with the largest quantities estimated to come from a relatively small number of middle - income, rapidly developing countries.

So, additional preventive measures need to be considered in addition to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, to help coastal regions especially in transition and developing countries to adapt and to limit damage costs.»

In a country like Bangladesh, where most people live in coastal areas, the opposite is true — there's too much water, and sometime in this century some of those coastal cities will disappear.

On 24 November, the two countries signed a joint statement on environmental protection that will facilitate and guide U.S. - Cuba cooperation — both governmental and non-governmental — on issues including coastal and marine protection, the protection of biodiversity including endangered and threatened species, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and marine pollution, Wiley said.

Although risks are distributed across all levels of economic development, wealthy countries effectively limit their present - day threat by gross domestic product — enabled infrastructure and coastal defense investments.

Some of the countries could take steps to prevent coastal areas from flooding.

The direct take of turtles has continued legally in many regions and countries, often for traditional coastal communities to support themselves or small - scale fisheries supplying local markets with meat, and sometimes shell.

Since 1992, the UN recognizes a distinct group of fifty developing, low - lying coastal countries known as Small Islands Developing States (SIDS).

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

That's according to scientists who released research on Thursday estimating that a staggering 8 million metric tones of plastic pollution enter the oceans each year from the world's 192 coastal countries based on 2010 data.

The estimates were based on information including World Bank data for trash generated per person in all nations with a coastline, coastal population density, the amount of plastic waste countries produce and the quality of their waste - management practices.

We calculate that 275 million metric tons (MT) of plastic waste was generated in 192 coastal countries in 2010, with 4.8 to 12.7 million MT entering the ocean.

Located on the side of a mountain in this coastal African country, the genus of flowering plants has pulled out all stops.

Many countries are farming large areas of their coastal waters, often with rafts or cages that are used to grow fish, seaweed and many different kinds of shellfish.

In 2011, 193 countries committed themselves to the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Targets, including a goal of «effectively and equitably» managing 10 percent of their coastal and marine areas within MPAs and «other effective area - based conservation measures» by 2020.

Folk information: the rich caboclo culture, a blend of the coastal native people's knowledge of the country's ecosystems, with Portuguese, French, Dutch, and strong African influences in the northeast and with the Germans, Italians, Japanese, and other peoples in the south.

To be specific, five Asian countries — China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam — accounted for more than half of the world's population exposed to coastal flooding in 2000 and will maintain the top five positions over the coming decades.

«Policymakers in several countries, especially in coastal cities, are aware of the issue to some extent, but overall awareness on options to address sea - level rise is much [more] limited,» said Ancha Srinivasan, principal climate change specialist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.

Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Mountains.

The total annual catch of 600,000 to 1m tonnes has become extremely important for coastal livelihoods of eastern Pacific countries.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

Tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, however, have devastating consequences when they hit land due to a combination of factors such as a low - lying and flat coastal terrain, a shallow ocean floor, and a high population density of surrounding countries.