Sentences with phrase «on coastal estuaries»

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

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In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

All eyes were on southeast Florida's St. Lucie Estuary in 2016 as it received national attention due to beach closures on the Fourth of July weekend from the massive amounts of toxic green slime that covered parts of the 7 - mile - long inlet linked to a coastal river system.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

Focuses on how coastal and ocean acidification affects estuaries and coral reefs in coastal waters of the Southeast U.S. states.

They favor near - shore coastal waters and are often seen on rocky islands, sandy beaches, mudflats, bays, and estuaries.

The Pacific coast population of the snowy plover is defined as those individuals that nest adjacent to tidal waters of the Pacific Ocean, and includes all nesting birds on the mainland coast, peninsulas, offshore islands, adjacent bays, estuaries, and coastal rivers (USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 2004).

If your adventurous mind is keen for a little exploring, there is a coastal midden in the vicinity of the Mzimai estuary which may, on careful search, offer up its iron - age secrets of ruins and scrapers to the curious explorer.

Velddrif is a coastal fishing town located on the estuary where the Berg River flows into St. Helena Ba...

Velddrif is a coastal fishing town located on the estuary where the Berg River flows into St. Helena Bay.

Depending on the coastal tides slowly blending into the mangrove ecosystem at Damas Estuary, your night adventure starts after your arrival at our Damas Island Rancho located in our protected mangrove habitat.

If you walk north on the inland side of the estuary, you will find the beginning of the highest coastal dunes in the world.

Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Belize) was put on the Danger List mainly because of the problem of mangrove cutting and excessive development in the property which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996 as the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, with offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries.

The Reddish Egret specializes in hunting in estuaries and on coastal mudflats.

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

The latest computer models show the storm passing as close as about 25 miles offshore on Sunday or Monday and then stalling within 100 miles of shore until at least Thursday — an exceptionally long time that will serve to worsen coastal flooding, especially for the coastal bays and estuaries that don't normally fill with water from storms, and that take longer to drain.

Estuaries and a variety of coastal habitats are to be found on or adjacent to campus.