Sentences with phrase «threatened by sea»

«A tremendous amount of property (both insured and uninsured) is increasingly threatened by sea level rise,» Ceres says.

According to a recent report from Climate Central, Texas has just over 100 cities and towns that are threatened by sea level rise inundation as correlated with current projections relating to greenhouse gas emissions.

Could small islands threatened by sea level rise find a new future afloat?

The 2014 National Climate Assessment, produced by over 300 experts and the National Academy of Sciences, specifically identified Oakland's airport as threatened by sea level rise.

Artist collaborative Okay Mountain recently created and installed a site - specific installation on George's Island — located within the Boston Harbor Islands, a national park off the city's coast that's threatened by sea level rise.

In 2015 — 17, Mare Liberum is engaged in a longform research and participatory art project, «Water Rites,» spanning multiple sites and instigating dialogues with river and watershed communities threatened by sea level rise, the encroachment of extreme energy industries, micro-plastic pollution, depleted fish and wildlife stores, water acidification, climate change, and other pressing issues.

«The geological stability and existence of low - lying atoll nations is threatened by sea - level rise and climate change.

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«Populations are shifting to the coast, which means that more and more people are going to be threatened by sea - level rises.»

The landmark environmental law has spurred significant progress but the nation's waterways now are threatened by sea - level rise and ocean acidification — unknown in 1972

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

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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.

Rising sea levels and increasingly volatile weather caused by climate change threaten the infrastructure of our city and could severely damage our economy.

The draft legal text that the commission has published would, if implemented, undermine the UK common market and threaten the constitutional integrity of the UK by creating a customs and regulatory border down the Irish sea, and no UK prime minister could ever agree to it.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

Reefs are now threatened by warm seas and acidification.

The technique may help scientists better track population numbers of these penguins, which are threatened by warmer sea temperatures.

Key cities threatened Large population centers in the United States already imperiled by sea - level rise include New York, Boston, Miami and Tampa, Fla., said Trevor Davies with the Tyndall Centre at the University of Southampton in England.

Six groups of seals threatened by shrinking sea ice are gaining protections, as their habitats are forecast to shrink significantly due to global warming

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The rule in question was finalized by the Bush administration in December, six months after the polar bear was declared a threatened species due to the melting of its sea - ice habitat.

A new computer simulation suggests that the water vapour and sea salt thrown up by the impact could damage the Earth's protective ozone layer, leading to record levels of ultraviolet radiation that could threaten human civilisation.

Micronesia's argument was that emissions from Prunerov are threatening its very existence by contributing to global warming and, ultimately, raising sea levels.

Low - lying Bangladesh is threatened by rising seas, but embankments built to hold back the waters may be doing more harm than good

U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, Calif., on April 29 ordered the Bush administration to stop dragging its feet on the fate of polar bears and decide by May 15 whether declining sea ice in the Arctic threatens their existence.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

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.»

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

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

A comprehensive review (pdf) by the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that shrinking sea ice is the primary cause for the decline seen in these populations, and it recently proposed listing polar bears as threatened (pdf) under the Endangered Species Act.

The research, under the auspices of the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, showed that continuation of a «business - as - usual» approach would overwhelm reef recovery mechanisms by 2050, leaving little living coral, which is threatened by rising sea temperatures.

The Network strengthens members» ability to effectively manage coral reefs threatened by warming seas, bleaching, coastal development, pollution, overfishing, and changes in ocean chemistry.

But seriously threatening that success is oil drilling by Shell in the Beaufort Sea, which the Obama administration approved to move forward in summer 2012 despite a lawsuit by the Center and allies.

Coral is already threatened by insidious change in sea water chemistry as ever more carbonic acid — from dissolved atmospheric carbon dioxide, the product of the combustion of fossil fuels — gets into the sea.

Elizabeth, the «virgin» Queen, finds her rule openly challenged by Spanish King Philip II, whose with powerful army and sea - dominating armada threaten to restore England to Catholicism.

Note how the picture is bookended by shots of the ocean, the first of Molly and her charges on a threatening beach (crepuscular, somehow, in its natural lighting) and the last of Molly sailing away into a haunted, bird - infested horizon: an illustration, perhaps, of the alternative to Tippi Hedren's domesticization at the end of The Birds — of the re-assimilation of the feminine destructive energy into the long reach of a symbolic sea.

What would happen this year if Florence Foster Jenkins bum - rushed the Oscar race and suddenly threatened to unseat Moonlight or Manchester by the Sea or La La Land in their favored categories?

With his signature crosshatched pencil drawings and cinematic visual pacing, Caldecott Medalist Selznick opens on a ship at sea, with a young girl tied to the mast and threatened by a vicious monster.

Haleakala National Park is home to more threatened and endangered species than any other national park in the U.S. Due to the isolated volcanic area, all of the plants and animals either traveled thousands of miles over land and sea or were brought over by Hawaiians or other visitors.

The caye's fragile ecology is threatened by massive and uncontrolled expansion; the resources of the sea are being rapidly exhausted; the village's sense of community and cultural identity has been altered.

Commissioned by TBA21 — Academy and presented in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall as part of a survey exhibition dedicated to the artist's work, the multi-layered performance is Jonas» poetic response to the threatened marine cultures, endangered habitats, and rampant exploitation of our seas.

Who is this King Cnut, waiting out existence on a shore threatened by rising sea levels?

Kara Walker's most recent video installation,... calling to me from the angry surface of some grey and threatening sea, I was transported, has recently been jointly acquired by the Hammer Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Luzinterruptus «Plastic Island» is inspired by the Pacific Garbage Patch, the massive collection of floating plastic trapped mid-ocean and threatening sea - life:

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.

It is pushing for new oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat while biologists for Interior Department, prodded by legal action, recommended the bear be given threatened status under the species act because of the warming of the Arctic and summer retreat of sea ice.

President Mohammed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, whose small island nation is existentially threatened by rising sea levles caused by climate change, has called on the world to set a target of returning the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere to 350