Sentences with phrase «seaboard increasing»

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...

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The increase in radiation levels following the 2011 earthquake that devastated the northeastern Japanese seaboard may be responsible for a global 28 % increase in babies born with thyroid gland issues.

The maximum increase is concentrated along the Pacific and Atlantic seaboard of the United States, where the value is about 25 % greater than the global mean, even for the case of a partial collapse.

That increased domestic oil production should come from drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other public lands, for example, as well as off the Eastern seaboard.

«The interval when Columbus is exploring the New World is this interval where we're seeing increased hurricane activity along the eastern seaboard of the U.S.,» Jeffrey Donnelly, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution palaeoclimatologist, said.

and 2) Could an increased Wind Shear allow further track of Hurricanes along the eastern seaboard and northeast.

If the vertical wind shear over the Atlantic MDR is expected to increase, wouldn't we expect hurricanes to be steered farther to the east, climatologically, and therefore to pose less of a threat to most of the eastern seaboard?

Using buoy data and models based on wind patterns, scientists say that the waves off the coast of the Pacific Northwest and along the Atlantic seaboard from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., are steadily increasing in size.

Sea level rise, combined with coastal storms, has increased the risk of erosion, storm surge damage, and flooding for coastal communities, especially along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic seaboard, and in Alaska.

It warns that within the next 15 years, higher sea levels alone will likely increase the average annual cost of coastal storms along the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico by $ 2 billion to $ 3.5 billion.

Under extreme deforestation scenarios, disappearance of the Amazon rainforest would reduce rainfall in the American Midwest, Northwest and South at key growing times, while increasing winter precipitation along the eastern seaboard.