Sentences with phrase «on coastal ecosystems across»

Evidence shows that if a spill were to occur, little, if any oil would be recovered, leading to lasting impacts on coastal ecosystems across the Northeast.

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The Surfrider Foundation immediately responded to the threat by issuing an action alert, opposition resources, and taking the lead on organizing robust statewide coalitions across the coastal U.S. to help proponents of healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems rise up in unified, widespread, bipartisan, cross-sectoral opposition to any new offshore drilling or seismic activity.

This new report looks at the likely impacts of present day (0.8 °C), 2 °C and 4 °C warming on agricultural production, water resources, coastal ecosystems and cities across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South East Asia.

This new concept of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH formulated here accommodates the broad range of mechanisms involved in the anthropogenic forcing of pH in coastal ecosystems, including changes in land use, nutrient inputs, ecosystem structure and net metabolism, and emissions of gases to the atmosphere affecting the carbon system and associated pH. The new paradigm is applicable across marine systems, from open - ocean and ocean - dominated coastal systems, where OA by anthropogenic CO2 is the dominant mechanism of anthropogenic impacts on marine pH, to coastal ecosystems where a range of natural and anthropogenic processes may operate to affect pH.