Sentences with phrase «zone than a sea»

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Operators of ships not remaining within that area (other than for reasons purely related to safety of life at sea, weather, navigational safety or military instructions) should allow any of their seafarers to choose not to proceed to the high - risk zone by allowing any such seafarers to leave the ship (or not to join it) at a preceding port.

Within the past century, however, humans have flattened the coral reefs on the continental shelves and scraped the sea grass beds bare; a dead zone bigger than New Jersey grows at the mouth of the Mississippi; all the world's cod fisheries have collapsed.

Surprise find The team's actual mission was to survey ocean currents near the Ross Ice Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samples.

More than 100 marine benthic calcifying taxa, from the coastal zone to the deep sea, from tropical, temperate and polar regions, were included in this comprehensive study.

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

The hundreds of dead zones throughout the world cover nearly 100,000 square miles, with one in the Baltic Sea spanning more than 23,000 square miles several years ago.

«It will be far cheaper to manage the Coral Sea as a single, large no - take area rather than the proposed combination of four separate zones, which include no - take and recreation - only fishing areas,» says Prof. Pressey, who has published a detailed economic analysis of the options.

Paul Greengrass (United 93, Green Zone) and screenwriter Billy Ray adapt Phillips» book «A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, NAVY SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea» and opt for a straight and conventional retelling of these events, rather than expanding and deepening any broader philosophical and sociopolitical goals.

Named for its characteristic reef development, this dive site features a profile with two distinct reef zones over a distance of about 800 ft.. A shallow reef extends from sea level to 40 ft and a deeper reef begins at 70 ft, extending to more than 100 ft at the wall.

This adults - only resort is situated on a secluded sandbar tucked in between the Caribbean Sea and Nichupte Lagoon, making it much quieter and calmer than the other hotels you'll find in the main Hotel Zone.

The viscous black seas of Oil Ocean Zone (which appear halfway through the game) make the boss in that area's second act particularly tricky, to the point that I saw the «Game Over» screen more than once.

I predict greater surface salinity, much earlier melt, great adiabatic events at sea surface to air interface, wide early thousand lead expansion events coinciding with at start clear than very cloudy air, a surprising near ice death experience at the North Pole because the North Greenland subduction zone is already very fluid.

One does not need an enormous ice sheet for sea level to be high, chiefly because the Earth's coastal zones and ocean basins may be more porous and capacious than one would imagine.

ERA - Interim produces more rainfall over equatorial western Africa than in the datasets based more directly on observations, and more rainfall in the convergence zones over tropical seas.

Coastal Zones: The likely costs for protecting coastal zones from storm activity and sea level rise are probably three times greater than the UN estimate of $ 11 bilZones: The likely costs for protecting coastal zones from storm activity and sea level rise are probably three times greater than the UN estimate of $ 11 bilzones from storm activity and sea level rise are probably three times greater than the UN estimate of $ 11 billion.

«One in every 10 people on the planet lives in an extremely vulnerable zone within 60 miles of a coastline and less than 33 feet above sea level, and more people seem to be heading in that direction.