Sentences with phrase «when seas rose»

Other evidence revealed past eras when seas rose precipitously.

Previously, when the seas rose and covered the floor of the channel, the chalk ridge would still have been passable.

When the seas rose at the end of the last ice age, all hell broke loose.

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They were previously part of mainland Australia but became separated when the sea rose following the last ice age, so you can appreciate much of the Australian «wilderness experience» on these personally guided tours.

Not exact matches

But when you compare it to the 7.3 metres (24 feet) that global sea levels are predicted to rise if the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt away all at once... well, it puts things into perspective.

But all that changed one morning when the winds gathered force, the tides rose and a huge storm swept the city and its spectacular future into the sea.

The other issue is when we talk about doing something about climate change, doing something means to avoid major sea level rise, we need to reduce emissions globally starting today... seven percent per year.

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

Each, however, should move in unison as the USO and SEA both rise when the global economic is booming.

Even when they do act in the name of anonymous facts like rising seas and damaged planets, they rightly choose for human beings as individuals and families over the nameless facts of science.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

The story it contains of the risen Jesus and his disciples beside the sea of Galilee may also stem from a quite early tradition, which took shape before the period when Easter stories came to be confined to Jerusalem.

When the wild beasts rise from the oceans and the sea boils with blood and Babylon the great has fallen, then i'll know better, yeah, that's it...

When the bread had risen, I sprayed it with some more olive oil, sprinkled with some more sea salt, and baked it for 20 minutes on the lower rack of the oven.

To be sure Coach Waldorf has pared the deficit by 72 points but it may not help much when the Southern Seas see (no pun) U.S.C. (no pun, either) in the Rose Bowl.

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Not only are infrastructural systems, such as sea walls and well - build structures, expensive, but so are food and medicine when prices rise as supply wanes.

Its ancestors may have left the ocean for fresh water when sea - level rise opened up new habitats about 6 million years ago.

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were loWhen an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lowhen the seas were lower.

Based on the anatomical features of the fossil, Isthminia was either a close relative or ancestor of today's Amazon river dolphin (which probably invaded South America's river systems when sea - level rise expanded those habitats about 6 million years ago), or it was a descendant of an older and as - yet - undiscovered river dolphin that went back to sea.

The Museum of Modern Art's current exhibition «Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront» features ideas on how to stop lower Manhattan and other low - lying parts of New York City from going under when the sea surges during a big storm.

«We're making progress, but we still don't know exactly when these processes might kick in, and how fast sea level might rise if they do.

When sea temperatures rise, the algae that give coral its bright colours leave their host, causing it to look white, hence the term «coral bleaching».

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

When Stone Age people lived there, and before seas rose, it was connected to Siberia.

When the climate began to cool and sea levels dropped, the atolls become exposed, only to be flooded again during the subsequent rise.

«When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,» explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural Hazards and the Earth System.

They noted three phases when, after oxygen in the seas dipped and then rose again, animal diversity flourished.

Scientists still do not know what triggers the breakup of an ice shelf or when future ones will occur, so they struggle to estimate how quickly glaciers will dump their ice into the ocean and therefore how much sea level will rise.

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

Dr Gudmundsson said: «Although floating ice shelves have only a modest impact on of sea - level rise, ice from Antarctica's interior can discharge into the ocean when they collapse.

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch uses satellite observations of sea surface temperatures and modeling to monitor and forecast when water temperatures rise enough to cause bleaching.

The debate was on display last month when members of the compact met in Key Largo to release a climate action plan that aimed, in part, to offer preliminary recommendations on how cities in the area can prepare for sea - level rise and more powerful storms.

The rise of sea levels, when combined with more intense storms in the future, would be a deadly combination, she said.

These solutions may buy the city decades of time, but they won't prepare it for 2 feet or more of sea - level rise, particularly when combined with the prospect of more powerful storm surges, according to Castro.

«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

«Certainly preserving the beach has important benefits for humans and ecology, but as with any management decision, benefits need to be balanced by cost, especially when sooner or later the beach might be lost to sea - level rise or a major storm.

MIAMI — One of the first sea - level rise maps Broadway Harewood saw was a few years back, when climate activists gathered in his neighborhood to talk about how global warming would affect people in less - affluent South Florida communities.

A 1,400 - acre swath of salt flats along the western edge of San Francisco Bay has become the latest site for a development dispute that promises to become increasingly common in coastal U.S. cities: Whether new waterside growth makes sense when sea levels are rising

Boston: To cope with the expected 2 - to 4 - foot rise in sea level expected along the Massachusetts coast, the city adopted a policy in 2013 that requires developers to submit sea level preparedness plans when seeking approval for new projects.

Lastly, it assumes that dikes will be the dominant method of adapting to sea - level rise, when options like dunes, wetlands and retreat are some other possibilities.

Water salinity had risen from 10 grams per liter in the 1950s, when the sea was healthy, to about 26 grams per liter in 1990.

In Australia, aboriginal stories recall even longer connections to their lands, even seeming to refer to times when sea levels rose and fell more than 15,000 years ago.

Coral bleaching happens when sea temperatures rise, causing the breakdown of the symbiosis between coral and their zooxanthellae (the microscopic plants which gives coral most of its colour), which can be fatal for the coral.

«And again, given that Hoyo Negro pit was dry when Naia made her way to the bottom, the florets had to have grown between the time of her death and 10,000 years ago when the bottom of the pit became submerged by brackish water because of rising sea level.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Chris Perry, Professor of Geography in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, and his team measured changes to 28 reefs across the Chagos Archipelago, the remote British Indian Ocean Territory 300 miles south of the Maldives, that lost 90 per cent of its coral cover during 1998, when sea temperatures rose to unprecedented levels.

When a glacier melts, it thins, weakens and speeds up, letting more landlocked ice drain into the ocean, causing sea levels to rise.

When scientists talk about the consequences of climate change, it can mean more than how we human beings will be impacted by higher temperatures, rising seas and serious storms.