Not exact matches
Conditions for avoidance
zones include navigational hazards, environmental conditions, and the existence of
coastal fish and
other wildlife habitats.
The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into
coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or
other tools like new building codes or flood
zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.
The researchers undertook the study in light of concerns about decreasing levels of oxygen in
coastal waters worldwide, and how the growing prevalence of low - oxygen «dead
zones» might affect populations and management of blue crabs and
other coastal marine life.
And every
coastal nation has exclusive economic rights in the
zone extending 200 miles off its shores, meaning that all the gas, oil, fish, and
other resources are under its control.
The most recent plan provides a policy platform for the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of fisheries within China's exclusive economic
zone — an area of
coastal water and seabed to which China claims exclusive rights for fishing, drilling, and
other economic activities.
Combined with
other calamities, we find ourselves in a two - front war: Fire and heat that ravage inland communities, and massively destructive storms that damage
coastal zones.
For mid-latitude coasts that border subduction
zones, sequences of buried soils may provide a long - duration, subsidence stratigraphic paleoseismic record that spans to the present, but in
other settings such as the Aceh
coastal plain, joint research approaches, for example targeted foraminiferal analyses and palynology, are required to both exploit the changing form of the relative sea - level curve and characterize
coastal evolution in the context of the diminishing importance of accommodation space.
It is changing the composition of species in ecosystems, reducing soil fertility, depleting the ozone layer, intensifying climate change, and creating dead
zones in the Gulf of Mexico and
other near -
coastal seas.
«Dead
zones and harmful algal blooms can kill fish, impact shellfish and
other marine life, and put our
coastal economy at risk.
And what the rest of
coastal USA is doing about this, has nothing to do with rain barrels, oyster reefs, buffer
zone plantings, Bacterra Storm Water Filters, picking up soda cans in the marshes and some of the
other feel good - do nothing projects that the Virginian Pilot has been promoting to an incredibly naïve local population for several years now.
However, the conditions predicted for the open ocean may not reflect the future conditions in the
coastal zone, where many of these organisms live (Hendriks et al. 2010a, b; Hofmann et al. 2011; Kelly and Hofmann 2012), and results derived from changes in pH in
coastal ecosystems often include processes
other than OA, such as emissions from volcanic vents, eutrophication, upwelling and long - term changes in the geological cycle of CO2, which commonly involve simultaneous changes in
other key factors affecting the performance of calcifiers, thereby confounding the response expected from OA by anthropogenic CO2 alone.
We have also successfully prosecuted and defended lawsuits involving CEQA and
other coastal land use and
zoning issues.