Sentences with phrase «rivers in a changing climate»

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Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Sonoma County Snares $ 8 Million to Fight Drought and Climate Change Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to fund conservation projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said FrClimate Change Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to fund conservation projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said FriChange Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to fund conservation projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Frclimate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Frichange in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Friday...

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.

«The research fills an important gap in our understanding of the vulnerability of tropical river - forest systems to changes in climate and land cover,» said the project's leader, Leandro Castello, assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

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.

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

That might be because climate change has raised temperatures and so reduced the snowmelt flowing into rivers, says author Terry Marsh of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, UK.

New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.

This phenomenon, almost certainly the result of climate change, is the first modern record of river piracy caused by a melting glacier, researchers report online April 17 in Nature Geoscience.

In Chinook salmon in Alaska's Yukon River, for example, the prevalence and mortality from the parasite Ichthyophonus has recently risen in concert with climate change, which has increased river temperatures by an alarming 5 degrees CelsiuIn Chinook salmon in Alaska's Yukon River, for example, the prevalence and mortality from the parasite Ichthyophonus has recently risen in concert with climate change, which has increased river temperatures by an alarming 5 degrees Celsiuin Alaska's Yukon River, for example, the prevalence and mortality from the parasite Ichthyophonus has recently risen in concert with climate change, which has increased river temperatures by an alarming 5 degrees CelRiver, for example, the prevalence and mortality from the parasite Ichthyophonus has recently risen in concert with climate change, which has increased river temperatures by an alarming 5 degrees Celsiuin concert with climate change, which has increased river temperatures by an alarming 5 degrees Celriver temperatures by an alarming 5 degrees Celsius.

She became almost evangelical about climate change — something she had previously described as «not an exact science» — and implored her counterparts in the other river states to plan for the threat it posed to Southwestern cities.

To see how increased temperatures might contribute to the reductions in the river's flow that have been observed since 2000, Udall and Overpeck reviewed and synthesized 25 years of research about how climate and climate change have and will affect the region and how temperature and precipitation affect the river's flows.

Therefore, there is concern that the emissions of carbon dioxide from streams and rivers may increase due to climate change, accelerating the growth of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Climate change may cause major changes in rainfall patterns and river flows in the coming decades, bringing more pressure for water - transfer schemes.

According to the study, winter flooding in the UK is set to get more severe and more frequent under the influence of climate change as a result of a change in the characteristics of atmospheric rivers (ARs).

He noted that an increase in average temperature of even 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit across the Southwest as the result of climate change could compromise the Colorado River's ability to meet the water demands of Nevada and six other states, as well as that of the Hoover Dam.

German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production, with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.

It shows that while water in rivers and lakes would have disappeared as the climate changed due to variations in Earth's orbit, freshwater springs fed by groundwater could have stayed active for up to 1000 years without rainfall.

In their study published in The Geological Society of America Bulletin, Viktoria Baranyi and colleagues propose that the floral reorganization of the riparian communities can be attributed to the gradual climate change and changes in river styles, possibly linked to changes in the mountain chain distributionIn their study published in The Geological Society of America Bulletin, Viktoria Baranyi and colleagues propose that the floral reorganization of the riparian communities can be attributed to the gradual climate change and changes in river styles, possibly linked to changes in the mountain chain distributionin The Geological Society of America Bulletin, Viktoria Baranyi and colleagues propose that the floral reorganization of the riparian communities can be attributed to the gradual climate change and changes in river styles, possibly linked to changes in the mountain chain distributionin river styles, possibly linked to changes in the mountain chain distributionin the mountain chain distributions.

In the realm of research, academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.

According to the first report under the SECURE Water Act, «As the effects of climate change and snowpack are realized throughout the Colorado River Basin, these effects will drive changes in the availability of natural water supplies.»

Al - Mudaffar Fawzi studies the impact of climate change on biodiversity in the marshes, the Persian Gulf, and the Shatt al - Arab river which connects them.

Also like California, Stevens said, climate change modeling predicts a future of hotter summers, accentuated droughts, and shrinking winter snowpacks in Turkey's Taurus Mountains, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers arise.

Authors wrote that in the nearly quarter - million - square - mile Colorado River Basin, «climate change, record drought, population increases and environmental needs» are likely to make water supplies ever scarcer.

The evidence of the success of early rice farmers on the vast wetlands near the Guaporé River in Rondônia state, Brazil, could help modern day plant breeders develop rice crops which are less susceptible to disease and more adaptable to the effects of climate change than the Asian varieties.

«You could say that the whole Colorado River basin has been affected in many ways by climate change,» explained Michaelides, also a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

They are now working on forecasts of the effects climate change will have on snowfall in the mountain ranges that ring L.A., on local rivers, and on water resources in the Sierra Nevada.

Overfishing, climate change and pollution have reduced fish populations in Canadian lakes and rivers.

«What's changed in the last 20 years is climate change and what it's been doing to flows on the Colorado River.

«It's not just trying to prove climate change is affecting the Wind River Range and the glaciers in it, but trying to get tangible data that we can use to show things are changing and changing quickly.»

Jaap Nienhuis, a graduate student in the MIT - WHOI Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics, says the effects of climate change, and the human efforts to combat these effects, are already making an impact on river deltas around the world.

Co-author Dr Alison Kay from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said: «Our hydrological modelling suggests that the increased likelihood of extreme rainfall arising from human - made climate change gives a more modest increase in extreme flows in the River Thames.

Current research includes studies of the food web structure and biogeochemistry of Arctic streams and rivers, nitrogen cycling in headwater streams and estuaries, and the impacts of climate change on the freshwater cycle of the Arctic.

Recently our research team discovered an increasing trend in river runoff from Eurasia to the Arctic Ocean that has important climate change implications.

Dec. 28, 2017 - To address future climate change effects on water resources, scientists at five UC campuses, and Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories will study California's water systems, from the headwaters in the Sierra Nevada, through rivers, reservoirs and groundwater in the Central...

A study found that the beaver is playing an increasing part in climate change because the dams they build for shelter create shallow, stagnant ponds of water which allow biological material to build up on the bottom of the river.

At present, we are facing the third global coral bleaching event due to climate change, and the discovery of more robust reefs in unusual place such as the mouth of the Amazon River can greatly help researchers better understand which organisms can tolerate harsher conditions.

Studies of future changes in river flow and river temperature and implications for ecosystems, changes in sea - level, changes in freshwater resources, and the role of feedbacks in climate change in the Arctic and high - altitude regions.

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New science reveals humans will have to prepare and adapt much harder for even more river flooding in the next 20 years, due to climate change.

Ongoing projects examine the paleoenvironmental context for human evolution and cultural development, reconstructing ancient rivers and lakes, dating geological formations, and attempting to understand the role that climate change had in producing new species and stone - tool cultures.

Climate change and diminishing ecosystem services have diminished the resiliency of the Mississippi River Basin ecosystem, threatening the livelihoods of those who live in the region and around the world.

The one thing everyone knows about Texas is the Battle of the Alamo, but most of Texas history occurred before the Alamo, before the Anglo colonists arrived; it was the history of the native peoples who lived there over the course of 14,000 years, some of whom left huge, magnificent cosmological murals in rock shelters along the Pecos River before they moved on as the climate changed and water disappeared.

Transformations of Urbanising Delta Landscape: An Historic Examination of Dealing with the Impacts of Climate Change for the Kaoping River Delta in Taiwan

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In 2015 — 17, Mare Liberum is engaged in a longform research and participatory art project, «Water Rites,» spanning multiple sites and instigating dialogues with river and watershed communities threatened by sea level rise, the encroachment of extreme energy industries, micro-plastic pollution, depleted fish and wildlife stores, water acidification, climate change, and other pressing issueIn 2015 — 17, Mare Liberum is engaged in a longform research and participatory art project, «Water Rites,» spanning multiple sites and instigating dialogues with river and watershed communities threatened by sea level rise, the encroachment of extreme energy industries, micro-plastic pollution, depleted fish and wildlife stores, water acidification, climate change, and other pressing issuein a longform research and participatory art project, «Water Rites,» spanning multiple sites and instigating dialogues with river and watershed communities threatened by sea level rise, the encroachment of extreme energy industries, micro-plastic pollution, depleted fish and wildlife stores, water acidification, climate change, and other pressing issues.

In 2018, Bui launched the River Rail, a biannual publication devoted to the environment, climate change, and the «urgent subject of nature: its beauty, abuse, and changing climate that is gravely affecting every aspect of the planet's ecosystem, and our lives.»