Sentences with phrase «seawater flooding»

Other types of natural disasters, like seawater flooding or landslides, are excluded.

Overall, the experiments showed that spinach, eggplant, and tomato were the most tolerant to simulated seawater flooding, while chinese cabbage, chinese greens, and cucumber were the least tolerant.

Youping Sun, Joseph Masabni, and Genhua Niu, authors of a study that appeared in the May 2015 issue of HortScience, said there is limited information on vegetables» tolerance to seawater flooding at early stages of development.

«Simulated seawater flooding significantly increased leaf Na and Cl concentration of all tested vegetables, but decreased leaf K concentrations in broccoli, chinese cabbage, eggplant, kale, spinach, and tomato and Ca concentrations in broccoli, kale, radish, and «Red Crunchy» radish.»

At the same time, the earthquake, subsequent tsunami, hydrogen explosions and seawater flooding, among other recent incidents, may have damaged the electrical equipment necessary for those pumps to run.

But he suspects people didn't need them because storm surges would have sent seawater flooding deep inland, leaving behind pools full of stranded marine creatures.

After spawning, they'll be thinner, with a little more salinity, and some may have more seawater flooding deeper shells.

The Blue Hole was formed at the end of the last Ice Age when rising seawaters flooded a series of enormous caverns.

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If the trend continues, the islands could experience increased flooding and erosion, and seawater could intrude into freshwater aquifers.

The encroaching seawater threatens to flood hundreds of millions of people every year by 2100 as homes that are already below flood heights, or will be, succumb to climbing oceans.

Japanese crews have been trying to flood reactors with seawater and restore outside power to the plant.

However, in its 3 billion years old geological history, the Witwatersrand basin in South Africa has been covered by seawater, but experienced also episodes of drying out, flooding and erosion by rivers and the repeated coverage by seawater.

Seedlings shown 2 days after being flooded with simulated seawater show visible salt damage.

Jettys were built and then a dredge chewed a channel, allowing seawater to flood the harbor.

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have pieces painting a convincing picture that officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company, reluctant to wreck a huge investment, hesitated to flood overheating parts of the damaged nuclear plant complex with corrosive seawater even though that step was clearly laid out in emergency plans.

Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.

Paradoxically, flooding is an additional concern, and involves both coastal flooding with seawater contamination of agricultural land, and flash floods due to river overflow within continents.

In Vietnam, a sea - level rise of one foot — which could occur as early as 2040 — could reduce agricultural production by around 12 percent in the Mekong Delta region due to flooding and seawater intrusion.

Should hurricane - driven floods top or break the protecting levees, the city would be inundated with seawater.»

Let a low pressure system be centered over the islands at an extreme high tide, and seawater will flood the islands and salt up the fresh water supply.

Coastal flooding is predominantly caused by storm surges that accompany hurricanes and other storms that push large seawater domes toward the shore.

Overall, the team concluded, 2,660 square kilometers of the northern delta will be flooded by seawater by 2100 if the current rate of topographical deformation continues.

Would the negative consequences of capturing carbon be as bad as having the New York metro flooded by seawater again?

Hurricane Irma battered Cuba with deafening winds and unremitting rain, pushing seawater inland and flooding homes before taking aim at Florida.

Some cities would be winners, and others would be losers as our global climate changes, seawaters rise, and the natural disasters of drought, storm, and floods pick some areas but not others for their paths of destruction.

Residents in South Florida will not have to worry about the sweltering heat; their homes will be flooded with seawater.

Commercial Court litigation on behalf of cargo interests seeking relief arising out of the vessel losing all power in the mid-Atlantic due to flooding of the engine room due to an alleged failure in the seawater cooling system.