Sentences with phrase «water areas around the world»

Statoil believes its Hywind floating wind turbine technology will enable greater exploitation of offshore wind resources by allowing expansion into new deep - water areas around the world.

Not exact matches

The continued development of maritime transportation around the world, especially in new areas such as the Arctic, can increase conservation impacts to wildlife, including disturbance, fatal strikes, introduction of pathogens through ballast water, habitat destruction through anchoring (especially on corals), introduction of invasive species, air emis ¬ sions, noise, and fuel spills.

An international commission is considering whether to designate the waters around Antarctica special marine reserves, a step campaigners say would safeguard the habitat of whales, seals and penguins and more than double the world's protected sea area.

Eating less meat would protect water resources in dry areas around the world, researchers at Aalto University have found.

Spirulina is a microalgae that thrives in hot, sunny climates and in alkaline waters around the world, and produces twenty times as much protein as soybeans growing on an equal - sized area of land.

[citation needed] Despite the cold water the area is popular with surfers and visitors from around the world.

This area offers a breathtaking view of the world famous Burj Al Arab and is ideal for small children as the waters around here are very shallow.

Climate warming and nutrient pollution are vastly expanding the area of anoxic waters around the world.

Nick Gotts >... disappearance of high - altitude glaciers and snows on which around 1/6 of the world's population depend for water supply; drought - affected areas increasing; flood events increasing; disruption of fisheries; increase in malarial areas.

This activity report presents some examples of the IFAD - GEF partnership from around the world by using brief case studies to highlight certain aspects of various projects, which includes over 43 national and regional projects, covering areas of biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation and sustainable forest management.

PLASTIC POLLUTION FACT: 83 % of the samples of tap water tested from major metropolitan areas around the world were contaminated with plastic fibers.

These water areas around Great Britain had been under considerable constraint due to naval warfare during World War I (WWI), whereby the ca. 2000 kilometre distance between the two locations is not a significant one.

Health risks from unsafe drinking water afflict many, not only around the world, but in the United States too, especially the poor, ethnic minorities and those in remote rural areas.

if we deregulate industry (if you deregulate one then you will have to deregulate them all) then the waste collection business up the road will dispose of their sludge down the gutters into the storm water drains, the coffee business in the next row will not replace their odour filters and the whole area will reak of burnt coffee all day, the tyre business around the corner will dump their tyres in the nearby bushland, some of the hardup businesses in the area will hookup to the power lines with with uncontrolled connections and we will start to get brown outs at various times in the day, The lead and tin foundry a block away won't bother controlling the lead oxide spewing out of their chimney stack, nearby housing developments will all use open fires in winter to save on energy costs and start hacking trees out of the world heritage national park here.