Sentences with phrase «on coastal land»

But it's nearly gone because it was growing on coastal land bulldozed for multi-million-dollar homes.

Not exact matches

For evidence, he pointed to coastal wetland protection rules requiring farmers to get permits before watering their cows from ponds on their land.

Clean Harbors is the North American leader in providing response services for environmental emergencies of any scale on land or water — from the cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and cleanup of a coastal oil spill.

Mandated by Section 20 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Environmental Studies Program is an indispensable requirement informing BOEM's decisions on offshore oil and gas, offshore renewable energy, and the marine minerals program for coastal restoration.

When people in Brazil are persuaded by their government to migrate away from the coastal areas to take up farming on a plot of land in Amazonia, they cause great destruction.

Agriculture - Tasmanian focus; significant regulatory costs for farmers; regulatory impediments to competition (freight - coastal shipping; environmental regulations; government as land owner (not a «good neighbour»)-RRB-; workplace penalties; competitive neutrality; unconscionable conduct and MMP (legislation not adequate); need to educate on competition issues.

By acquiring this property, and establishing a new wildlife sanctuary at Tidmarsh, Mass Audubon will lead by example in protecting one of the best remaining land conservation opportunities in coastal Massachusetts, and inspire the public to act on nature's behalf.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

The emphasis in these initiatives is on trust - building and social learning in collaboration with key stakeholder groups such as farmers, coastal land owners, minority groups, and industry members.

«Developing our resources on the coastal plain is an important facet for meeting our nation's energy demands and achieving energy dominance,» said Interior's assistant secretary for land and minerals management, Joe Balash.

They then focused on the small wedges of coastal land, sandwiched between river drainages, where groundwater drains directly into the fragile ecosystems near shore.

Professor Rohani Ambo - Rappe of Hasanuddin University, Indonesia, a collaborator on the research stated: «Declining seagrass health is the result of shifting environmental conditions due largely to coastal development, land reclamation, and deforestation, as well as seaweed farming, overfishing and garbage dumping.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

In large coastal cities, new homes and public infrastructure could be built on artificially raised land.

For now, they are hoping to expand on the land and marine units by creating new categories for coastal and freshwater ecosystems.

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».

Professor Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter said: «Carbon storage in sediments in these rivers and coastal regions could present a more secure environment than carbon stored in soil on land.

The two - month program focused on the ocean as one connected system which consists of numerous users and stakeholders both for coastal land and the sea.

On land, we monitor weather, stream flow, water chemistry, and other variables in coastal watersheds.

Human - induced changes to carbon fluxes across the land - ocean interface can influence the global carbon cycle, yet the impacts of rapid urbanization and establishment of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) on coastal ocean carbon cycles are poorly known.

On the landing vehicles transporting them to the coastal battlefront, we are given an incisive insight into the lie we have been sold by war movies of the past.

That hurricane had been the shortest on record, but to keep the coastal towns safe from our fish, our family had packed up and moved deep inland, plunging into the very heart of the land and stopping as close to the center of the country as we could get.

Similarly, the land on which the house sits usually isn't going anywhere (with a few notable exceptions like coastal property prone to erosion or beach encroachment) So, take the home's value, minus 15 %, plus the street value of all the things you have in it (this is typically a different «bucket» of coverage limit, and keep in mind the insurer will pay present value, not replacement cost), and that should be your coverage limit.

Glorious Graphic: Our new silkscreened LANDS END PRINT will inspire many visits to this glorious coastal setting on the city's wild western edge.

Once visitors have scaled the rugged cliffs using the stairwell from the Landing Cove, they will be rewarded with a campground perched on the bluffs with magnificent coastal views.

Once visitors have scaled the rugged cliffs using the steep trail from the Landing Cove, they will be rewarded with a campground perched on the bluffs with magnificent coastal views.

Hiking trails on our 50 acres of private coastal lands for light hiking, jogging, meditative walks, and other quiet time in nature

• Take a walk from Cape Naturaliste to Wyadup on Conservation and Land Management's 11 - mile coastal track.

Tortuguero Tortuguero, also famous as the Land of Turtles, is a serene coastal village on the northern Caribbean...

If you want to feel secluded vacation somewhere in the middle of the woods, away from the city, the exotic beaches and comfortable, but still on vacation with a complete tourist facility, not wrong if you try vacationing at G - Land, a coastal tourist area nicknamed G - Land Surf Paradise.

Once visitors have scaled the rugged cliffs using the stairway from the landing cove, they will find a figure eight - shaped trail system that meanders over gentle slopes to dramatic overlooks, magnificent coastal views, and the last permanent lighthouse built on the west coast.

In 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Spain and his crew were the first European explorers to land on this coastal region in the present day San Diego Bay.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in classical music performance from the University of Michigan in 2004 (and since supplemented with years of volunteering in the park, interning at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, running his own California native gardening business, and taking countless classes in all aspects of the natural world), you can find him at Lands End, often performing experiments to assess the health effects of accordion music on newly - planted California coastal scrub ecosystems.

On land, the miles of running, hiking and biking trails are complemented by opportunities for coastal outings

experiencing the physical freedom and exhilaration of freefall, then the absolute peace of the parachute ride down — the views are amazing — the horizon in the distance, the spectacular coastal scenery, take over the steering yourself before returning control to your tandem master to land you both on the soft sand on one of the Sunshine Coasts spectacular beaches.

«I feel like we landed on a slice of heaven, Your house is absolutely perfect for our family» Kimberly, Kent, Cameron and Cole Aikane Kauai is located on the sunny side of the island and is centrally located giving you quick access to several beaches in the neighborhood, beautiful coastal walks along the nearby Mahaluepu Coastline and shopping and dining nearby.

It is built on almost 200 ft. of coastal land in a contemporary style and has everything you wuld need for your dream -LSB-...]

Gaya Island Resort is located on Pulau Gaya, the largest of a cluster of five islands that form the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, a natural conservation area off the coast of Borneo, close to Kota Kinabalu.Gaya Island Resort has a unique setting: the land is fringed with a golden sandy beach, rocky coastal outcrops, and surrounded by coral reefs.The hilly island landscape is covered with lush tropical rainforest and an abundance of flora and fauna.And to complete this perfect setting, visible in the distance, is the stunning outline of Mount Kinabalu.The guest villa exterior respects Sabahan architecture, uses local materials and blends harmoniously with the natural environment.

On view through May 23, 2010, The Lens of Impressionism will be complemented by the presentation of Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea, a special exhibition drawn from the Museum's collections opening in April that will explore how coastal landscapes have been portrayed by artists throughout the past century.

Maybe untill that time HongGong, ShangHai and so on many Chinese coastal cities will loose most part of their land.

Last time I checked, we live on land, many of those that live on land, somewhat unfortunately, live in the coastal zone.

In fact, stored heat in the crust has a big effect on daily weather patterns; witness the buildup in convective activity and large currents driven over land versus over water (e.g. coastal areas like the Bay Area).

With this storm and the long gap since the last coastal hit in mind, I sent a query to half a dozen experts on tropical cyclones and their impacts, asking them to assess the gap in land - falling hurricanes and the conditions, including simple chance, that favor ravaged or spared coasts.

«These results are important because they highlight the need to address land use in order to reduce both the size of the low oxygen zone off Louisiana and the negative effect of nutrients on coastal wetland restoration efforts,» said Turner.

The film will focus on the efforts of marine scientists at the Carmabi Research Institute to foster a culture of conservation in coastal fishing communities and land developers.

Here we have a 30 - mile stretch of land with so much diversity; on one end a coastal dry forest and at the other, a rainforest!

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

Think about feeding a population of 9 billion as formerly productive regions become too hot and dry for large scale agriculture, populations have to relocate, sea level causes very large coastal populations to move inland quicker than new high rise housing can be built (but the land is needed for crops) and so on.

Detailed impacts, however, will vary strongly from region to region and coast to coast and therefore can not be easily generalized, as changing mean and extreme coastal water levels depend on a combination of near shore and offshore processes, related to climatic but also non-climatic anthropogenic factors, such as natural land movement arising from tectonics, volcanism or compaction; land subsidence due to anthropogenic extraction of underground resources; and changes in coastal morphology resulting from sediment transport induced by natural and / or anthropogenic factors.

In the B1 world, marginal areas (e.g., semi-arid lands) become more marginal, with moderate impacts on coastal systems (Thornton et al., 2006; see Chapter 5, Section 5.4.2).