Sentences with phrase «of coastal damage»

Not exact matches

The coastal city of Rockport, Texas, located near the point where the hurricane initially made landfall, also sustained extreme damage.

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.

The National Weather Service has warned of the storm's intensity and strong, damaging winds that can result in downed trees, power outages, and coastal flooding.

These include the costs of food and water shortages, coastal real estate damage, and many others.

Damage and flooding was reported in some coastal communities that saw more than 500,000 people evacuate ahead of the storm.

Some of the worst damage appeared to be in Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 that was directly in the storm's path.

As per the president's remarks while he was in Venice, La. to witness efforts to mitigate the coastal damage from the BP oil spil... unlike Gov. David Paterson, Obama made no mention of terrorism:

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

«For over 40 years, Entergy's Indian Point nuclear facilities have been damaging the coastal resources of the Hudson River estuary,» the state agency wrote.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

«Sea level is rising and higher sea level increases the damages from coastal storms,» said Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Penn State.

«There are lots of human benefits that coastal marshes provide for us so we want to understand how our activities are damaging marshes and what we can do to help them.»

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

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.»

The number of people affected by droughts could increase by a factor of seven and coastal damage, due to sea - level rise, could more than triple.

As soon as his team hears of an approaching coastal storm, the members head out to monitor the damage (see «A week in the life of a storm chaser», page 49).

Since the first project of its kind in the U.S. at Coney Island, N.Y., in 1922, coastal managers have used beach nourishment — essentially importing sand to replace sediment lost through storms or erosion — to restore damaged beaches, but it is laborious and expensive.

With less than 14 inches of sea - level rise, most of the 90 U.S. coastal cities studied outside of Alaska would see a 25-fold increase in disruptive and damaging flooding by around 2080, 2060, 2040 or 2030 under the low, intermediate - low, intermediate and intermediate - high scenarios, respectively.

USGS will collect data in coastal and inland areas depending on their hurricane damages and the age and quality of existing data.

On top of that, the coastal areas hit hardest — the Louisiana wetlands — are already under acute stress from subsidence, erosion and the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

Thus, a homeowner will probably not be able to show that the hurricane that destroyed his house was spawned by global warming, but the state of Florida may well prove that increased damage to coastal property over several years has a lot to do with climate change.

Police said there were no immediate reports of damage, but the quake was felt throughout several coastal communities.

The findings suggest that the trees shield the coastline (pdf) by reducing the height and energy of ocean waves and offer hard evidence that deforestation could result in increased coastal damage from storms.

Slows Coastal Erosion Following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, a study led by Danish ecologist Finn Danielsen reported that coastal areas flush with mangrove trees were markedly less damaged than those without.

The fact that the number of residential buildings in coastal areas has increased significantly combined with the increasing risks of impacts of due climate change means that the cost of damage to coastal developments are likely to continue to rise.

Less than a year after Hurricane Matthew raked the East Coast, killing 34 people and causing $ 10 billion in damage in the U.S. alone, coastal areas are once again preparing for the onset of the Atlantic hurricane season.

Previous studies have subjected phytoplankton to oil in laboratories to test their sensitivity and found differences in the impact on oceanic vs. coastal phytoplankton and differences when phytoplankton were in nutrient - rich or nutrient - poor water, as well as damage to some phytoplankton cells at various concentrations of oil.

«If dredging material can be used to help protect or regenerate coastlines, then we have a double benefit, both ending damage at sea and improving coastal protection,» says Radley of English Nature.

In August 2013, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued an analysis of economic damage incurred among the world's largest 136 coastal cities and the damage they will sustain by 2050 under the same conditions.

«Models such as this are needed for better forecasting of damaging wave conditions in coastal waters.»

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

For Irma, storm surge and coastal flooding have been some of the biggest drivers of damage.

«Having a better understanding of the chances of local flood damage from rising seas in coastal areas is a key factor in being able to assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation options.»

In addition, stronger storms may also lead to greater coral damage due to increased flooding events, associated terrestrial runoff of freshwater and dissolved nutrients from coastal watersheds, and changes in sediment transport (leading to smothering of corals).

That trend is projected to continue as the planet warms and could put coastal cities at risk and cause trillions of dollars in damage.

Also, under this study, the Southeast likely faces greater effects than other regions because of coastal property damages.

The amplification of flood frequencies by sea level rise (SLR) is expected to become one of the most economically damaging impacts of climate change for many coastal locations.

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

The LA - 1 project in coastal Louisiana received a $ 66 million TIFIA loan in 2005 for the first phase of a plan to replace an existing highway in need of repair due to subsidence, erosion, and frequent storm damage with a new tolled limited - access elevated facility.

On a Saturday night on a coastal road in southern California, someone smashed their 2004 Honda Civic into the left - rear corner of our red Alfa Romeo 4C coupe, severely damaging the Alfa's wheel assembly and surrounding carbon - fiber bodywork.

Both non-profit organizations were hit hard by a hurricane that caused significant damage to coastal areas of New York and New Jersey.

• More than 75 percent of the earth's people live in coastal areas, bringing to pristine coral reefs such threats as over-fishing, pollution and direct physical damage.

Belize City was the original capital of Belize, but when Hurricane Hattie inflicted significant damage upon Belize in 1961, the government decided that a coastal city was too risky a location for their capital.

That's the end of all coastal cities less massive dike building, and that just makes the ecological damage that much worse.

For example, if climatologists and oceanographers only considered sea level rise to predict coastal damages without regard to escalating rates of beach - front home building, they would be as errant as would a coastal developer who assesses future risks based only on current climate and sea levels (and Professor Pielke has led the charge on such integrated approaches).

The overall effect from the ancillary coastal changes is to take the damage estimates and number of people affected by a future sea level rise scenario and multiply it by ten.

The bottom line from this experiment is that simply drawing a new coastline along a topographic contour is overly simplistic and greatly underestimates the damage to human infrastructure and the loss of coastal environments.