Sentences with phrase «remote island nations»

The tsunami of stupidity and science denial that has washed over Washington, D.C., won't be held back by earnest calculations of long - run risks, or by the potential inundation of remote island nations, or by the news that polar bears and other iconic species are endangered.

Remote island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have for many years been considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change and, in particular, rising sea levels.

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The remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati is drowning.

The projects we photograph are as diverse as their locations, from just around the corner in downtown Vancouver, to Victoria and Nanaimo, across the border in Bellingham or Seattle, or out to the Gulf Islands, San Juan Islands, Sunshine Coast, and remote Coast Salish First Nations reserves.

This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.

Around the world, from Alaska's remote North Slope to the island nations in the South Pacific, coastal communities are watching their shorelines slip away into the rising seas.

Fearful of its nation's youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left.

Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change.

Secondly, focussing on delivering turnkey hybrid power solutions, which is of immense requirement in remote power installations such as island nations, most of which either can not afford the kind of diesel or fuel import costs that exist at this particular stage, or have mandates to move away from heavy carbon footprint in order to meet climate change goals.

In a nation comprised of over 17,000 islands, fossil fuel energy isn't just dirty and expensive — often requiring extensive infrastructure to reach remote communities — it can be deeply impractical.

«However,» Sentman notes, «if we can't figure things out in this remote part of the Pacific Ocean, what does that mean fore more densely populated coastlines and island nations?»