Sentences with phrase «threatened by erosion»

While Palin set up a sub-Cabinet office to map out the state's response to global warming as governor, and sought federal dollars to help coastal communities threatened by erosion, she has been steadfast in saying human beings are not responsible for climate change and that proposals to limit pollution threaten the economy.

Obama asked Congress to fund several projects to help the state cope with climate - change impacts, including $ 400 million to help relocate a handful of villages along Alaska's western coast threatened by erosion.

In September last year, the government advised against new building developments on coasts threatened by erosion, which raises questions about the proposed expansion of the Sizewell nuclear power complex.

A Government guidance note on coastal planning, issued in September, says that new building developments away from existing urban areas should not in general be allowed on coasts threatened by erosion.

This more detailed and accurate model could help scientists better predict the motion of dunes or manage coastal land threatened by erosion, says physicist Hans Jürgen Herrmann, also of ETH Zürich, who led the research team.

For instance, researchers may have a limited time to survey coastal archaeological sites threatened by erosion, to sample melting ice sheets holding clues to past climates, and to document so - called thermokarst lakes, which are formed by meltwater from permafrost.

Yesterday, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) said he did not think there would be a trip to Kivalina, a village threatened by erosion, because of the size of the runway.

In 1940, a team led by a professional fossil collector hacked out footprints from a 9 - meter - long section of the fossil trail, which was threatened by erosion, and sent them to museums.

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Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.

Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agrari (AGRA), a national peasant federation in Indonesia in statement expressed that «Indonesia, as with the whole region, is also threatened by the growing corporate control over agriculture and consequent erosion of traditional seed resources.

Despite some degree of protection due to their inherent inaccessibility, mountain regions are still fragile ecosystems threatened by human - related impacts such as logging and erosion, acid deposition, and climate change.

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

The Sunday Telegraph, for example, published a feature on 23 January about people living by the sea whose homes are threatened by coastal erosion.

The board, a nonprofit consulting organization funded by individual state membership fees and corporate gifts, aired those views in a 30 - page report citing «widespread erosion» of student achievement and academic standards throughout the region's 260 colleges and universities and suggesting that such problems at both the school and college levels threaten the stability of the New England...

(Think: real estate meltdown of 1990 and the erosion of bank equity, Orange County bankrupted by mortgage security misunderstandings, threatened Mexican insolvency in 1995, the implosion of Long Term Capital Management in 1998, the technology meltdowns of 2001, Ford Motor Credit at the wall in October 2002, etc..)

A relative lack of tourism in northern Cyprus has been a boon to turtle populations, which are threatened by development and beach erosion, as well as predators, marine trash, and getting caught in fishing nets.

Kivalina, located at the end of a spit in northwestern Alaska, is one of several villages threatened by climate - change accelerated coastal erosion and seal - level rise.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, detailing shifts expected in the South Pacific, said rising seas would worsen flooding and erosion and threaten towns as well as infrastructure.

Alaska Native Villages: Limited Progress Has Been Made on Relocating Villages Threatened By Flooding and Erosion.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

Alaska Native communities are already being affected by climate - induced changes in the physical and biological environment, from coastal erosion threatening the existence of some communities, to alterations in hunting, fishing, and gathering practices that undermine the intergenerational transfer of culture, skill, and wisdom.

Major Environmental Issues: Soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices; soil salinity rising due to the use of poor quality water; desertification; natural habitat of many unique animal and plant species is threatened by clearing for agricultural purposes; the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast, the largest coral reef in the world, is threatened by increased shipping and its popularity as a tourist site; limited natural fresh water resources.

The second time was when climate change hit The Trump Organization's bottom line: His golf course in Ireland is threatened by coastal erosion, so the company recently applied for a permit to build a seawall to protect the property from «global warming and its effects.»

But that didn't stop him: he continued calling — searching for infrastructure that was deteriorating as the permafrost thawed beneath it and for facilities threatened by coastal erosion and flooding — until he and his colleagues had mapped every inch of Alaska's infrastructure and put a price tag on what climate change might do to it.

In the Torres Strait Islands, the threats to culture from climate change are already being felt; for example graveyard sites have already been threatened and damaged by recent king tides, and the nesting behaviour of turtles has already become unpredictable because of changing weather patterns and erosion.