Sentences with phrase «where coastal environments»

By measuring ocean health in the same way at sites across the Caribbean, it's possible to understand where coastal environments are the most stressed out.

Not exact matches

The pipeline goes over mountains, across farmland, over the Fraser and Skeena rivers, and straight through the Great Bear Rainforest to the Pacific where it will be picked up by supertankers trying to navigate our inland coastal waters,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

These environments, along with other forms of coastal ecosystems such as tidal marshes and sea grasses, have been given the name «blue carbon» to differentiate them from the «green» carbon of other forests, where carbon is absorbed above ground in trees.

«Areas of greatest vulnerability will likely be where deep waters, naturally low in pH, meet acidified surface waters,» such as areas of coastal upwelling along the West Coast and in estuary environments such Hood Canal, the new study predicts.

The nearshore comprises the dynamic coastal environment where the ocean meets the land.

For example, coral reefs are critical features of coastal environment in the Tropics; they protect the shores from devastating impacts of cyclones and storms and are the sites where lots of open ocean fishes come to reproduce.

Forced to live as vagabonds, darting from city to city to protect their immortal identity (much to the frustration of ever - teen Ronan), their newest stop - off is a tranquil coastal town where Arterton seduces her way into securing them a place to stay — an out - of - service hotel called Byzantium (which she converts into a brothel, an environment we later learn she's all too familiar with.)

Armeria maritima (Pink Sea Thrift) >> Pink sea thrift is a perennial flower that commonly grows in saline environments along coastal areas where few other plants can grow well.

In 1954 he established a summer studio in the Maine coastal town of Lincolnville, which he still maintains as a respite from the urban environment in New York where he resides and works the rest of the year.

Ditto for the design features of a carrier operating in an environment where «vast tracts of America's coastal states» are «flooded» vs. current designs.

So in high humidity environments like in coastal areas where I live, sheathing is going to have a higher moisture content unrelated to its surface temperature, correct?