Sentences with phrase «sea by floods»

While all the dinosaurs we know of were terrestrial animals, they were occasionally washed out to sea by floods.

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The luxury coach, which was carrying the Kentucky Senator and his entourage of family, staffers, and evangelical leaders from Jerusalem to a kibbutz in the Sea of Galilee, had been derailed by flash floods and rock slides in the West Bank.

A U.S. withdrawal from the pact, agreed to by almost 200 countries, would set back international efforts to limit rising temperatures that have been linked to the extinctions of animals and plants, heat waves, floods and rising sea levels..

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.

Early geologists KNEW that the fossils were created by a Global flood that is the only logical explanation for Sea shells found all over the world even on mountaintops.

*** geologists KNEW that the fossils were created by a Global flood that is the only logical explanation for Sea shells found all over the world even on mountaintops.

On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I was suddenly flooded by light and absorbed in a sea of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding world.

He will rapture them to a sea of Glass, where they can not be reached by this flood of people.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

Sea shells on mountain tops do act as evidence of a great upheaval, but the orderly arrangement of shells by type and age is not indicative of a violent flood.

Just in time for Bali, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a new crisis report listing the ten cities most due to be flooded by warming - induced sea level rise.

The Church has always taught the importance of water in the Old Covenant — at Creation, at the flood, at the crossing of the Red Sea — and has also always seen a symbolising of baptism in the water that poured from Christ's side on Calvary: «O God whose son, baptised by John in the waters of the Jordan, was anointed with the Holy Spirit, and, as he hung upon the Cross, gave forth water from his side along with blood...» 8

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The main road in Pembrokeshire is now completely closed after the flood defence system got pushed back by the power of the sea.

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.

A new analysis suggests New York might deal with sea level rise and flood risk by a system of small levees and raising buildings unless climate change is worse than anticipated

«Our study illustrates that the complexity of climate change, adaptation, and flood damage can be disentangled by surprisingly simple mathematical functions to provide estimates of the average annual costs of sea - level rise over a longer time period.»

In places like Pemba, floods will likely become less predictable and more severe, magnified by sea level rise.

In areas around the North Sea and Mediterranean coast, however, later winter storms, indicated by cooler colors, are to blame for flooding.

It demonstrates how some neighborhoods could be inundated by flooding from sea - level rise in the coming decades.

With less than 14 inches of sea - level rise, most of the 90 U.S. coastal cities studied outside of Alaska would see a 25-fold increase in disruptive and damaging flooding by around 2080, 2060, 2040 or 2030 under the low, intermediate - low, intermediate and intermediate - high scenarios, respectively.

Now, many of those neighborhoods, formerly redlined by lenders and in some places bound in by a literal color wall, have an amenity not yet in the real estate listings: They're on higher ground and are less likely to flood as seas rise.

Sandy hit New York as a team led by Kemp was researching sea - level change and flooding that had occurred in seven historically damaging hurricanes in New York since 1788.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

Coastal flooding caused by extreme weather events and sea level rise is of growing global concern.

Sea levels could rise more than a meter by the end of the century, flooding large parts of Florida.

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

Coastal flooding is worsened largely by one overriding variable that can be tracked: sea level rise.

The international team of co-authors, led by Peter Clark of Oregon State University, generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea - level rise and coastal flooding based on state - of - the - art climate and ice sheet models.

In the future, Orton says, improved storm - surge models could predict where flood zones should be drawn given future sea level rise, which is now done nationally by the Federal Emergency Management Agency with data from past storms.

A flood from sea may be caused by a heavy storm (storm surge), a high tide, a tsunami, or a combination thereof.

A leaked draft of a second report by the panel, due in March 2014, suggests climate change will cause heatwaves, droughts, disrupt crop growth, aggravate poverty and expose hundreds of millions of people to coastal floods as seas rise.

Since prehistoric times people have lived by the seas and rivers for the access to cheap and quick transportation and access to food sources and trade; without human populations near natural bodies of water, there would be no concern for floods.

Rising sea levels, generated by climate change, threaten the flying foxes» habitat and food resources through flooding, erosion, and contamination of freshwater supplies.

Rising sea levels, generated by climate change, pose a serious threat to the flying foxes» habitat and its food resources through flooding, erosion and contamination of freshwater supplies.

This discovery is important because it demonstrates that the level of the Mediterranean Sea during the MSC dropped by more than a thousand metres, and that the end of the MSC coincided with a catastrophic flood that affected the entire Mediterranean Sea.

Several of those now discussed could be used to intentionally damage territories and populations by inciting droughts or floods, or by changing sea or air chemistry.

By around 5.33 million years ago, the rising sea level was just enough to wash over the thin land bridge at Gibraltar, resulting in a catastrophic flood that refilled the sea, he says.

One big reason the sea level dropped for so long: Only 6 % of the rainfall in Australia runs directly back to the sea, and the rest runs inland to lowlands (image depicts a normally dry area in eastern Australia flooded by rains in late November 2011) where it either soaks into the ground or evaporates back into the atmosphere — a process that returns moisture to the sea far more slowly than the rivers draining other continents do.

When threatened, the sea cucumber stiffens its skin by flooding the network with proteins that bind the fibers together, forming a solid structure.

Melting ice sheets could raise sea levels high enough to flood coastal areas around the globe by the end of the century, according to scientists gathering in Denmark today for a three - day climate - change conference.

«USA threatened by more frequent flooding: Researchers show that the East Coast of the USA is slowly sinking into the sea.»

The 8 inches of sea level rise produced by global warming so far has worsened the tolls of storm surges, including those caused by Hurricane Sandy, and subjected coastal cities to high tide flooding of unprecedented frequency.

«Hybrid» solution with small barriers affordable now Assuming a «middle climate change» scenario of about a foot of sea - level rise by midcentury, the team further assessed the cost - effectiveness of each flood - control strategy by measuring whether its benefits, or avoided risk, would outweigh the investment costs.

They spoke out at a recent meeting held with North Beach residents, those in the area likely to be affected soonest by sea - level rise and floods from a nearby river.

The sea - level - rise report stands by a key goal: to preserve «a walkable beach for as long as possible for recreational use, economic benefit, and to reduce flooding.»

After all, one of the errors made by the IPCC came as a result of information provided directly by the Dutch government about the percentage of the Netherlands that would be vulnerable to flooding as a result of rising sea levels.

The Greater New York City region has done good work in the years since Superstorm Sandy to consider storm - related flooding, but a new report by the Regional Plan Association found that the more pernicious threat of sea - level rise needs more attention.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

1914: Proposes that the Nopcsa estates that yielded small - bodied dinosaurs had once been part of an island he called Hátszeg that formed from the flooding of Europe by the ancient Tethys Sea, and that the dinosaurs evolved their petite proportions as a response to the limited resources available on small islands