Sentences with phrase «threatens life in our seas»

Understanding Ocean Acidification Our carbon emissions are making the ocean more acidic, which threatens life in our seas.

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In other words, rising sea levels and flooding threaten to ruin drinkable water supplies, making these islands virtually impossible to live on.

This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

Travelling at up to 23 - 30 knots, fast ships are especially vulnerable to waves that amplify suddenly due to local weather and sea conditions — extreme funnelling effects, for example, may turn waves a few metres high into dangerous waves tens of metres tall that can destabilise ships, resulting in damage, causing injuries and threatening lives.

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.

This study compared the global trade in shark fins to trade in sea cucumbers, and found that the news isn't universally good for conspicuous consumption products based on threatened sea life..

Birds nesting on low - lying islands being inundated by sea level rise — black - footed albatross, laysan albatross — and even the Hawaiian honeycreeper, which lives at higher altitudes, is being threatened by climate change too, in weird ways.

This would cause «a surge in sea levels threatening the lives of billions of people.»

Based on the results of researches and scientific studies, the climatic rise in the world's temperature, the sea level rise and coastal flooding, abnormal weather patterns, unusually warm weather heat waves, ocean warming, devastating typhoons and tornadoes, El Niño and la Niña, heavy snowfalls in many parts of the world, increased ranges of pests, drought and fires, and loss of biodiversity are the life - threatening results of climate change.

For example, an analysis of the risks of sea level rise for the State of California evaluated the economic value of property at risk of flooding, as well as the size, economic status, and demographic backgrounds of the population living in areas vulnerable to flooding, area of wetland likely to be lost, and other metrics related to threatened transportation, energy, and water infrastructure (Heberger et al 2011).

Coral reefs are threatened by rising water temperatures, ocean acidification, and sea - level rise.3, 5 Coral reefs typically live within a specific range of temperature, light, and concentration of carbonate in seawater.6 When increases in ocean temperature or ultraviolet light stress the corals, they lose their colorful algae, leaving only transparent coral tissue covering their white calcium - carbonate skeletons.6 This phenomenon is called coral bleaching.

«As our world warms,» he claimed, «Greenland's ice will slip faster into the sea, contributing to a rise in sea levels that already threatens hundreds of millions of people living in low - lying nations and coastal cities.»

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