Sentences with phrase «vulnerable coastal ecosystems»

A new study suggests that bubbling compressed air into seawater to lower its CO2 concentration could help vulnerable coastal ecosystems cope with these changes (Environ.

That study found that a 1.5 degrees Celsius world would reach a peak rate of sea - level rise about 0.7 inches per decade less than in a 2 degrees Celsius world — a potentially life - saving reduction for some vulnerable coastal ecosystems.

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Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

The ecosystem services provided by coastal habitats are especially vulnerable to sea - level rise and more severe storms.

The Northeast's coastal ecosystems and the species that inhabit them are highly vulnerable to rising seas (see also Ch.

Spanning a variety of ecosystems, including the dry coastal region, the tropical Amazon, and the high Andes, the country is particularly vulnerable to climate change.

Along India's narrow coastal belt of Mundra in Gujarat State, 500 miles (805 kilometers) northwest of Mumbai, several coal - fired power plants generate electricity so cheaply that authorities for the most part have overlooked damage to fishing and grazing, and harm to the vulnerable mangrove ecosystem.

Hence, paradoxically, we lack guidance on the future trajectories of pH in coastal ecosystems where some of the most vulnerable taxa to OA live (e.g. Doney et al. 2010; Hendriks et al. 2010a; Kroeker et al. 2010).

Alteration of tropical acid sulphate soils also releases large amounts of acids (Wilson et al. 1999; Johnston et al. 2009), affecting coastal waters containing vulnerable organisms, such as corals in the inner Great Barrier Reef ecosystem (Powell and Martens 2005).

Whereas detection of OA by anthropogenic CO2 has been achieved in open - ocean time series, we contend that it has not yet been achieved reliably in coastal ecosystems and that attribution of observed changes in vulnerable organisms to OA has been confounded in the past by failure to acknowledge the different components of anthropogenic impacts on pH possibly involved.