Sentences with phrase «several island nations»

To date, funds have been invested in Belize, Colombia, Peru and Paraguay and tentative commitments have been reached to support new activity in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico and several island nations of the Caribbean.

Gore claimed that several island nations are being flooded by rising seas, its not happening, unless you call 3 or 4 milliletres as drastic rise.

More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

Not exact matches

Having spent several summers in the island nation, Wu speaks Mandarin and has campaigned heavily in Manhattan's Chinatown and the Flushing section of Queens, home to the state's first Asian - American congresswoman, Grace Meng.

Brookhaven Lab announces that it is beginning construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS - II), a project that will advance energy research for the nation and create hundreds of jobs for Long Island over the next several years.

While several countries have occupied the small island nation, the Portuguese arrived in the 1500s, and East Timor remained under Portuguese colonial rule until 1975 when the Indonesians invaded.

Fortis is one of the largest utilities on the continent, offering service to parts of Canada, the U.S., as well as several Caribbean island nations.

We pass the hulk of the former National Assembly, meant for a nation of several hundred million people, not 11 million, and pull up to the Parque Central, a banal hotel that seems to accommodate almost every American tour group on the island.

The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace, according to several news reports.

Island nations will suffer severe flooding or completely disappear under the rising waters; they include the Bahamas, many of the Caribbean islands, Cyprus and Malta in the Mediterranean, and several Archipelagos around the Pacific Ocean.

Most of the Nation Less Than Three Feet Above Sea Level To put all of this in perspective, Tuvalu has a population of about 12,000 people (only Vatican City and Nauru have fewer people) and has a total land mass of just 10 square miles in size, spread out over several islands.

Many Caribbean countries / former British dominions including Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands; and several African nations including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

To date, LCIF and CICAD have collaborated to promote and expand Lions Quest in Belize, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and several island Caribbean nations.