Sentences with phrase «seas around the coastline»

All the cards depict rough seas around the coastline of the British Isles.

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There are the obvious ways: building and constantly improving the infrastructure necessary to predict hurricanes and other extreme weather, collecting images of disasters to guide emergency response workers, and tracking sea level changes around the world that affect coastlines and the Navy.

This ultimately created a broad shield volcano immediately east of Etna's coastline, which ceased around 130,000 years ago at the same time as the sea reached its highest levels following a period of deglaciation starting almost 12,000 years earlier.

Aboriginal groups from every part of Australia's coastline tell stories of long - ago deluges that can be traced to real events caused by rising sea levels at various times between around 7,250 and 13,070 years ago, two Australian researchers report September 7 in the Australian...

Caleuche Chasma is named for the mythological ghost ship that travels the seas around the small island of Chiloé, off the coast of Chile; according to legend, the Caleuche explores the coastline collecting the dead, who then live aboard it forever.

All this matters because ice melt in Greenland is the single largest cause of global sea level rise, which is affecting coastlines around the world.

For one thing, sea levels will rise around the planet, for centuries, reshaping the coastlines and civilization.

For many low - lying areas, scientists warn that the coming century is likely to see sea level rise that will change the shape of coastlines around the globe.

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

Lafferty started out believing from review of previous published literature that «infectious disease was preventing the recovery of sea otters, and the most likely source of infection of Toxoplasma gondii was terrestrial runoff containing oocysts defecated by cats,» but when he and colleagues tagged 135 California sea otters in 2009 and followed them for four years, they found that «Counter to expectations, sea otters from unpopulated stretches of coastline,» around Big Sur, are less healthy and more exposed to parasites than city - associated otters,» from the Monterey Bay area, who have more exposure to fecal matter from cats.

Next, a tranquil 90 - minute fjord cruise will show you just how the sea has carved its way in and around Norway's coastline, before you are shuttled along steep hairpin bends on a bus to Voss to see out the final leg of your journey on a train to Bergen.

A 140 - kilometre spectacular scenic coastal drive, The Grand Pacific Drive starts out from the Royal National Park, less than an hour south of Sydney's CBD, and stretches around the country's southeast coastline, taking road trippers through rainforests, across the iconic Sea Cliff Bridge and onwards to experience the myriad riches of southern New South Wales.

Sea around Corralejo has intensely blue colours, and apart from sandy beaches there are also some volcanic rocks and beaches made of volcanic lava which adorn the coastline.

It is estimated that there are something like 200 islands around the Krabi coastline, many are small rocky outcrops that rise precipitously out of the sea and have no landing access.

The sea temperature off the coastline averages around 15 °C to 16 °C at this time of year, so it is not particularly a good time of year for holidaymakers who would like to swim in the water off the resort's many beaches.

If you feel more energetic you can: swim in the ocean, jog or walk along the splendid coastline, cycle part of the scenic route of the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, wind or kite surf at Glencairn beach, explore the hiking trails around Cape Point, surf one of the local breaks, sea kayak around the harbour or past the penguins, sail from Simon's Town Yacht Club, enjoy a round of golf or go for a scuba dive.

Perhaps best known for its beaches, outlining the Arabian Sea with golden - white sand that boasts an almost uninterrupted fringe around Goa's scenic coastline, offering the perfect place for a seaside stroll with a difference.

It was built to honor the Balinese sea god Dewa Baruna and is one of seven sea temples dotted around the coastline.

Whether you are interested in an idyllic beach vacation, full moon parties on tropical islands, sea kayaking around incredible coastlines, elephant treks to remote hill tribes, learning to cook Thai - style or to fight Muay Thai, visiting the famous landmarks of this ancient kingdom, «the Land of Smiles» has it all.

Aside from the fact that 90 degrees north sits in the middle of a 2.5 - mile - deep ocean, that's quite a statement considering two things: first, no one has been routinely monitoring sea ice along both coastlines between then and now, and second, the region was clearly warmer than it is today (in summers) around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago — on both the Siberian and North American sides.

Land - based ice is melting too, causing the seas to rise and flood coastlines around the world.

And despite being Antarctica's most poleward coastline, there has been a great loss of glacier ice around the Amundsen Sea, illustrated by redder tones, causing a net loss of ice for the continent.48

The new study, the culmination of a decade of work by three teams of far - flung scientists, has charted what they called an «acceleration» in sea level rise that's triggering and worsening flooding in coastlines around the world.

Near - total deglaciation would eventually lead to a sea - level rise of around 7 m and 5 m (***) from Greenland and the WAIS, respectively, with wide - ranging consequences including a reconfiguration of coastlines worldwide and inundation of low - lying areas, particularly river deltas (Schneider and Chen, 1980; Revelle, 1983; Tol et al., 2006; Vaughan, 2007).

Around the world, nearly half of the world's approximate 4,000 cities with populations of greater than 100,000 people sit on or near the coastline, at elevations below 220 feet, or near bodies of water that are vulnerable to sea level rise.

No way in the scientific laws known in physics can the «seas» in the «country» be rising 2X higher than worldwide, and that fact of liquid physics inconveniently includes every coastline around those islands.

Coral reefs, the «rainforests of the sea,» are important ocean ecosystems that protect coastlines, support fisheries, and draw in a lot of tourism around the world.

The findings reveal how a drop in sea level initiated by changing East Antarctic coastal winds is propagated around the Antarctic coastline at nearly 700 km / hr.

The network is designed «to monitor sea level and climate around the coastline of Australia».

So when the company's press release states that it is gunning for a commercial scale Searaser in the sea within 12 months, and 200 Searaser units around the British coastline within five years, we might just need to take him seriously.