Sentences with phrase «threatened by flooding»

«The water here is already polluted, homes are threatened by flooding and we have regulatory agencies that look the other way and pretend we don't exist.»

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

It should have read that 26 % of the Netherlands lies beneath sea level and that another 29 % is threatened by flooding from rivers.

Scientists believe such findings act as a warning for coastal cities threatened by flooding.

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We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

At Halle on his way to Eisleben, he was held up by floods which he personified in a letter to Katie of 25 January as a «huge she - Anabaptist» which «met us with waves of water and great floating pieces of ice; she threatened to baptise us again and has covered the countryside.»

Flooding is expected to continue in Houston for days because of Hurricane Harvey, which has been termed «catastrophic and life - threatening» by the National Weather Service.

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They can block rivers, creating lakes that can later unleash floods, and by depleting glacier mass, they can threaten the flow of meltwater that downstream towns and farms may depend on.

The civilization would also not have been threatened by the risk of devastating floods that living next to a big river brings.»

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.

The current system was established by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986, when vaccine manufacturers were facing a flood of lawsuits and threatening to pull out of the vaccine - making business.

Globally, flooding due to climate change threatens to exact a $ 35 trillion economic toll by the 2070s.

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

When threatened, the sea cucumber stiffens its skin by flooding the network with proteins that bind the fibers together, forming a solid structure.

«USA threatened by more frequent flooding: Researchers show that the East Coast of the USA is slowly sinking into the sea.»

Instead of facing down a flood from God, they're largely threatened by conditions brought on by centuries of human expansion, exploitation and pollution.

There, they struggle to survive when their community is threatened by a devastating flood and an approaching herd of beasts known as aurochs.

Now, as an infinitely multiplying horde of frenzied psychotics flood the Texas plains, a dangerous outlaw named Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), a sexy stripper named Cherry (Rose McGowan), an unscrupulous smuggler named Abby (Naveen Andrews), and the curiously incapacitated Dr. Dakota Block (Marley Shelton) must try and make their way to the helicopter that could provide their only means of escaping to a place untouched by this nightmarish scourge that threatens to wipe out all of humankind.

But like many areas of California, the city is occasionally threatened by wild fires and by flooding from heavy rains.

Specially trained to save and care for animals threatened by wildfires, floods, and other life - threatening situations, these unique volunteer s are available seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

In Houston, reservoirs swollen by rain from Hurricane Harvey were opened early Monday, a move that was expected to flood more homes — but one that the Army Corps of Engineers says is needed to limit the scope of the disaster that's threatening lives and property in Texas.

Animals who have been tortured or left to starve; animals who have been given a chance in a shelter but whose time has run out; animals whose owners have died or become too ill to care for them are in as much danger as if they were threatened by fires or floods.

You'll also discover their amazing adaptations to their harsh environment - where their very survival is threatened alternately by parching and flooding, oxygen and salt.

When the land was threatened again, this time by a water company planning to dam Redwood Creek and flood the area, the Kents donated it to the federal government, and on January 9th, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared it a National Monument, protecting the land permanently.

If this trend is not halted soon, many millions of people will be at risk from extreme events such as heat waves, drought, floods and storms, our coasts and cities will be threatened by rising sea levels, and many ecosystems, plants and animal species will be in serious danger of extinction.

By the end of this century, coastal flooding would, under this scenario, threaten regions that currently are home to approximately 480,000 people and $ 100 billion worth of property.

Last week, the White House released a report that found that climate change is already creating changes in the United States by threatening the Southwest with heat waves, the Atlantic Coast with dangerous hurricanes and the middle of the country with flooding.

The president and Congress should cut federal subsidies that keep the price of insurance in some high - risk zones (flood plains, coastal areas threatened by rising seas, and regions prone to wildfires) artificially — and disastrously — low.

Image: Flooding in Piazza San Marco (Photo: AFP / Getty) The venerable city of Venice, named by UNESCO as one of the World Heritage sites threatened by climate change, was inundated by five feet of water (1.5 metres) yesterday.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

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.

Although relatively modest in comparison, projected SLR of up to 1.2 m this century has been estimated to threaten up to 4.6 % of the global population and 9.3 % of annual global gross domestic product with annual flooding by 2100 in the absence of adaptive measures (12).

Floods and droughts will also impact health by threatening sources of clean water and food.

This claim is not only absurd, but unethical and cruel in its disregard for the world's poorest people who are threatened in this century and next by sea - level rise, storm surges, disappearing glaciers, flooding, drought, and mass species extinctions.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

A flood is defined as any high flow, overflow, or inundation by water that causes or threatens damage.17 Floods are caused or amplified by both weather - and human - related factors.

Our work optimizing effective water infrastructure is important to prepare the rivers of the Mid-Atlantic for the more frequent and intense floods and longer droughts threatened by climate change.

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.

The director of the UN Environment Programme's New York office warned that «coastal flooding and crop failures» would «create an exodus of «eco-refuges,» threatening political chaos» if global warming wasn't reversed by the year 2000.

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.

Predicted to grow by 2.23 residents by 2020, an increase of close to 20 % of its population, the risks of flooding and typhoons affecting Manila threaten millions.

Washington DC, June 19, 2013 — An expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty across the region, according to a new scientific report released today by the World Bank Group.

The report cites Bangladesh, already threatened by frequent floods and extreme weather, as just one of more «potential impact hotspots» threatened by «extreme river floods, more intense tropical cyclones, rising sea levels and very high temperatures».

The outdoor recreation industry generates $ 887 billion in consumer spending and 7.6 million jobs each year and is directly impacted by shorter winter seasons, droughts, floods, and extreme weather events, all of which threaten the industry's bottom line.

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.

The floods of offensive and threatening emails aimed at intimidating climate scientists have all the signs of an orchestrated campaign by sceptics groups.

Drinking water treatment plants will likely be damaged by flooding and storm surge, and the wetlands that separate the sea water from the fresh water is threatened by rising salinity.

And it works exceptionally well for Milwaukee, as the area of the city most threatened by basement flooding is where hundreds of foreclosed homes sit waiting to be demolished.

But like many areas of California, the city is occasionally threatened by wild fires and by flooding from heavy rains.