Sentences with phrase «river embankment»

Over 40,000 students have sowed saplings along the river embankment, besides dumping one bucket of soil each on the natural dam in the dense mangrove forests.

With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

When Cyclone Aila struck in 2009, flooding breached more than 1,000 miles of river embankments and displaced about 100,000 people in the region.

In each photograph, the sense of internal ruin is attained with a selection of run - down tourist - poster views of fountains, monuments, the kremlin towers, or the Moscow river embankments as background.

On Sundarban Day, Aug. 21, the residents took a pledge to plant mangrove saplings along river embankments, reduce the use of petrol and diesel, and also completely eliminate the use of plastic in the delta region.

Not exact matches

It originated centuries ago with the fishermen who cooked it in big metal pots over campfires on the embankments of Hungary's great rivers, including the Danube.

Alternatively, Thames Clipper river boat services run frequently from The O2 to all major London piers, including Greenwich, Canary Wharf, Tower, London Bridge, Embankment and Waterloo.

That County Executive Mike Hein was on the scene almost before the last hunk of embankment had muddied the already polluted Wallkill River west of the village indicates the investment he has in this project.

«I have secured appointment for about 200 youths and have brought the ongoing N800 million Federal Government embankment project on River Yedzaram that had posed a danger to the lives and properties of Mubi town residents.»

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Leaving her Jeep at the side of the road, she strides past cow patties and fast - food wrappers and scrambles down an eroded embankment of the Cache la Poudre River.

They found that the embankments that protect the land from the river and sea had also robbed it of fresh supplies of sediment: during the five decades of its existence, the polder had sunk by a full meter relative to the land outside the embankments because it was not being replenished.

It's just four miles, if even that, from my hovel to The Sidewinder on Red River Street near 7th, where the club is precariously perched upon a high embankment overlooking Waller Creek.

The subterranean river contains rapids suitable for beginners, clear blue swimming holes seemingly without a bottom, and plenty of limestone embankments to rest upon.

An elegant Victorian masterpiece with ornate sculptured ceilings, a grand marble staircase and glittering chandeliers, it's ideally located on Victoria Embankment with stunning views over the River Thames and London Eye.

The Embankment location means some rooms look out towards the River Thames and have amazing views directly opposite the London Eye and South Bank.

The Embankment offers riverboat tours running up and down the River Thames, a unique way to experience the geography and history of London.

The Castle District, the River Danube embankments and the whole of Andrássy út have been officially recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

«Melaka is famous for its river, beautiful embankment with colorful houses and weekend night market, where you can find all sort of local delicacies; sweets, pastry, fish, sea food, kebabs, milkshakes and more,» Campbell continues.

Danube River cruises depart from the nearby embankment, and offer some of the best views of Budapest.

A simple, historic 3 - star hotel on the embankment of the Fontanka River, a short walk from Nevsky Prospekt.

With a beautiful view of the River Thames, The Eye and Big Ben, The Savoy London has a riverfront location that is in walking distance from The Savoy Theatre, Royal Opera House and Victoria Embankment Gardens.

Ingrid Calame, a Los Angeles — based artist, is known for her brightly colored, abstract paintings and drawings featuring complex configurations of traced stains and graffiti from the embankments of the Los Angeles River and the streets and sidewalks of New York, Las Vegas, and Seoul, Korea.

The upper floors, first and second, are dedicated to the preparatory drawings, cut - outs, sculptures, tapestries and collages made for what promises to be one of the most important artistic events of 2016: «Triumphs and Laments», a project inspired by the history of Rome, which will be launched on April 21st on the embankments of the Tiber River walls that stretches between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini.

In Ingrid Calame's new drawings she has extended her activity of tracing stains from city streets and begun incorporating tracings of graffiti and paint spills found on the concrete embankment of the Los Angeles River.

«Tracings up to the LA River placed in the Clark Telescope Dome, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ» presents the first works that are part of Secular Response 3, in which the concentric circular markings from the footprint of the round building that houses the Clark telescope are laid out with the messy «micro-histories» found in the markings on the concrete embankment of the LA River.

The impacts of climate change and sea level rise tend to be intensified by direct anthropogenic modifications (e.g. river control structures, coastal embankments, and upstream reservoirs) on the delta plain.