Healer, destroyer, carver of rivers and shorelines, future of electricity.
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The Living Shorelines Act would "create a federal grant program through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to assist states, localities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in constructing living shorelines," according to a release.
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It also helped shorelines grow and adapt as sea levels rose.
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Exacerbated by warming waters, cyclones and hurricanes will pummel the shorelines.
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Hills have been flattened, islands swallowed up by landfill, shorelines redrawn.
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Aside from economic value, sandy shorelines play a vital environmental role.
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Earlier European visitors had described pleasant shorelines and prosperous indigenous communities.
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"It will improve public health and the health of our shorelines."
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US maritime strategy envisions stationing forces in proximity to potentially hostile shorelines.
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Right: Areas covered by the documented tsunami events extending from these shorelines.
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Shorelines experience seasonal ebbing from winter, and typically regrow in the summer.
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In all, the 2004 tsunami killed 226,000 people along Indian Ocean shorelines.
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Authorities are searching the islands' shorelines for survivors, the Coast Guard said.
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Videos show beaches sprinkled with white sand covering the newly reclaimed shorelines.
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You look at the windmills that are destroying shorelines all over the world.
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Reefs also prevent erosion on shorelines that could cause property damage or deaths.
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Look along many shorelines and you will see many huge petrochemical storage tanks.
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Urban renewal is why North Carolina and South Carolina have such densely populated shorelines.
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There, fat slabs and mounds of cracked blue ice have collected near the shorelines.
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Overall, this risk analysis matches the pollution patterns we already see along US shorelines.
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In that period of time, the planet's water began freezing and the shorelines receded.
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Or, it can mean using "living shorelines" of sea marshes, oyster reefs and dunes.
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These aquatic forests serve as fish nurseries and protect shorelines from storm surge flooding.
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Farther north, many shorelines were reshaped by the storm; after a helicopter tour, Gov.
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My feed was inundated with visions of vast landscapes, empty shorelines, and beautiful temples.
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Gruyaert's "Edges" takes us to the shorelines where humans meet oceans, seas and rivers.
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Driftwood and debris clung high above the present lake level, where former shorelines had been.
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But in late January, after heavy rains, the shorelines shrunk, and the islands became submerged.
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But for many towns, or for coastal homeowners, living shorelines could be an excellent alternative.
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On the shorelines, the mayonnaise thick algae was so built up it burned Baum's sinuses.
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The bears prefer ice but also use islands and shorelines to move about the Arctic.
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The scientists examined ancient Martian shorelines for anomalies and discovered lobes modifying portions of these coasts.
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But New York has encouraged Lake Ontario property owners to armor their shorelines and hunker down.
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Both Gotland and Faro are very flat, ringed by rocky shorelines and, more rarely, sand beaches.
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Fault lines run through Man Chain and Kahshahpiwi Lakes, cleaving perfectly straight granite and greenstone shorelines.
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It depicts receding shorelines by having rising waters flood rows of cherry trees along a ramped shore.
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Rohingya refugees arrive at Bangladesh on a boat as smoke rises on the Burmese shorelines behind them.
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By the year 2100, swollen seas and rivers will redraw shorelines as climbing temperatures melt ice caps.
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The algae formed huge clumps along shorelines in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Florida's east coast.
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Developed or urban areas are more likely to flood or become submerged because of their hardened shorelines.
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The effects of global warming on the nation's deserts haven't been as obvious as along its shorelines.
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Storms hampered the search effort over some 40,000 square nautical miles of ocean, as well as shorelines.
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They are generally found resting in tree limbs over water or basking on shorelines, the department said.
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Due to hurricane risks and rising sea levels, towns and cities established along shorelines are increasingly vulnerable.
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These lakes then create Titan's shorelines, which look very like our own as you can see in this flyover visualization:Researchers even suspect the weather along those Titan shorelines behaves a lot like the shores along our own seas, with temperatures along them influenced by the temperature in the lake.
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For example, until now, scientists lacked concrete evidence of ancient shorelines cut by waves on the Red Planet.
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Alligators are not much of a threat out of the water but will lunge at prey near shorelines.
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Dr. Young is the director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
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"Southwest-facing shorelines will encounter the worst conditions," said the National Weather Service Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Reefs also protect shorelines from storms, and provide food for people in countries like Indonesia and the Philippines.
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At the full and new moons of May and June, females migrate toward shorelines and release powerful pheromones.
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Only the fish crow population has held on, but not surprisingly, they tend to congregate along the shorelines.
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Shorelines are supposed to naturally shift and change with the tide and respond to changes in sea level.
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John Upton of Climate Central explores the potential for "living shorelines" to help us adapt to climate change.
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Ancient hill towns, craggy shorelines and a rich history are only a few of the peninsula's other attractions.
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"Within a day, a tsunami deposited material from distant shorelines, including charcoal," the team writes in the study.
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"Coral reefs provide tens of billions of dollars to economies and protect shorelines and infrastructures around the world."
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Oyster reefs are hard, natural barriers that protect shorelines from erosion, rising tides and increasingly severe storm surge.
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Still, heavy rain hit parts of Hawaii, and strong waves pummeled shorelines as the still-powerful Pacific storm passed.
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That means less money for deploying sensors or even to pay for boats and crews to monitor the shorelines.
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In Hong Kong, the storm sent metres-high waves crashing into shorelines with flooding knee deep in some areas.
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Now, however, the pendulum may be swinging back, with the reality of diminishing shorelines hitting many close to home.
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Coral reefs also protect shorelines and infrastructure -- meaning their death could threaten the safety and sustainability of coastal societies.
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Rain and sediment washed carcasses from shorelines into moving water, which buried them and effectively preserved them for eternity.
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It suggested that water was not only leaching in from the shorelines but was bubbling up from underneath Tangier too.
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Marine protected areas are also causing "serious concern", said the report, with the majority of their shorelines are being eroded.
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For already-hardened shorelines like New York City, there is a movement toward hybrid projects combining hard and soft solutions.
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Seaweed, coral reefs and shellfish store huge amounts of carbon, balance the ocean's chemistry and defend shorelines from severe weather.
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Now there are only the naked shorelines, empty filaments of tributaries, silent rocks and occasional wet spots on cliff sides.
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Falcons hunt over Broadway, deer cross the Bronx River, Luna moths orbit door lights, comb jellyfish fluoresce along our shorelines.
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And last year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created a nationwide permit that allows "living shorelines", encompassing oyster reefs.
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Turtle injury rates explode in the spring, when they're driven from lakes and ponds to shorelines where they lay their eggs.
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In recent decades, the city has greatly expanded its boundaries, turning tidal marshes and shorelines into neighborhoods that are increasingly flooding.
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In 4003 the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative was born to improve water quality, clean up shorelines and restore habitats and species.
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Even the act of dumping boulders onto shorelines can help, though they're unsightly and they tel kill the beach-going vibe.
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Speaking with Today, Scott urged Florida residents who still haven't evacuated in areas like Jacksonville to head away from the shorelines.
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The rising sea level, centimetre by centimetre, is inexorably moving shorelines, laying waste to infrastructure and wreaking havoc on property values.
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But thinking long-term, the storm is a punctuation mark in the creeping erosion narrative playing out on many southeastern shorelines.
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Eleven workers were killed and millions of barrels of oil spewed onto the shorelines of several states for nearly three months.
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Some are swearing off children because they're concerned about raising a family in a world of receding shorelines and violent fires.
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The marsh plants in living shorelines do the real work; sills just provide temporary tranquility in which they may take root.
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Our architecture critic visited three new or expanded parks along the Brooklyn and Queens shorelines that offer a little breathing room.
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With wind-swept shorelines and muted hues, the landscapes of the Outer Cape serve as both magnet and muse for artists.
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With wind-swept shorelines and muted hues, the landscapes of the Outer Cape serve as both magnet and muse for artists.
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Robert Young is a professor of geology at Western Carolina University, where he directs the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines.
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Heidi Neilson's "Moon Arrow" travels around the New York City shorelines to draw attention to celestial forces acting on the urban landscape.
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"Oysters can help buffer shorelines and enhance biodiversity" so blows to them represent blows to the larger ecosystems they serve as well.
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Perrone and Masin's Stella EP, which drops on March 25th, is a dreamy waltz around shorelines at night and all that jazz.
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Erwin Rommel, they poured resources into Hitler's Fortress Europe, building defenses across the shorelines of northern Europe where landings could be expected.
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Now she got out her iPhone and started swiping rapidly through photos, many of which centered on azure shorelines and shirtless men.
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If USACE models living shorelines as a durable, low-cost solution, it could encourage homeowners and municipalities to take the plunge themselves.
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The rocky shorelines, shifting deserts and winding canyons of the country's 59 national parks have been hallmarks of American vacations for generations.
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To address the problem, five nations with Arctic shorelines completed negotiations on Thursday with countries farther south that operate major trawling fleets.
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They're popular spots for divers and tourists, but they also sustain food for half a billion people and protect shorelines from storms.
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They're popular spots for divers and tourists, but they also sustain food for half a billion people and protect shorelines from hurricanes.
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The greatest failure came in 1989, when a tanker, the Exxon Valdez, ran aground, pouring 11m gallons of crude onto unspoilt Alaskan shorelines.
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Braje and his collaborators make the case that early humans instead moved rapidly along shorelines, following a 'kelp highway' of food-filled fisheries.
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There are many local shorelines worth visiting at this time of year to observe both crabs and the shorebirds drawn by their presence.
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I've taken them spearfishing and lobster diving along rocky, wave-lashed shorelines, where more than once I have graced a rock or two.
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And that has to do with engineering analysis and changing conditions along eroding shorelines but also in inland water and flood-control projects.
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Honolulu Magazine reports that more than 20,000 pieces of marine debris were found on Hawaiian shorelines during an aerial survey conducted last year.
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Deborah Jack's photographic and filmic depictions of shorelines, on display in DNA of Water, encapsulate the tension between water's tranquility and its tumult.
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Living shorelines have been successfully deployed in Norfolk, Virginia, for example, as well as in the hurricane-vulnerable Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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Critic's Notebook Acres of green space, new or expanded, along the Brooklyn and Queens shorelines offer quiet places to pause, look and stroll.
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My colleague Brad Plumer recommends this one from the great series "99% Invisible" about planting oyster beds to protect shorelines from climate change.
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Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale eventually closed down their shorelines, and other jurisdictions followed suit, but their efforts might have come too late.
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Some worry about the quality of life children born today will have as shorelines flood, wildfires rage and extreme weather becomes more common.
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The location of its fossilized remains suggests these majestic herbivores browsed ancient shorelines, expanding our knowledge of this wildly successful group of dinosaurs.
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Storms have shaped our shorelines for millennia, and for most of that time our reefs and wetlands stood as guardians against those storms.
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The argument is that fossil fuels produce heat-trapping gases, which in turn cause problems like sea level rise that threaten valuable shorelines.
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DeConto and Pollard's breakthrough came from trying to match observations of ancient sea levels at shorelines around the world with current ice sheet behavior.
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A survey by volunteers in the U.K. has found that nurdles – small plastic pellets – are posing a big problem to shorelines across the country.
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Not only can wetlands capture and store that carbon, but they can help shorelines adapt to rising seas by building up layers of mud.
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Smith arranged for 500 salmon, donated by A-Tlegay Fisheries Society on Vancouver Island, to be distributed along the shorelines that the grizzlies frequent.
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After all, it's no secret that the shorelines in Hawaii and California are the stuff of dreams (and picture-perfect Instagram posts, of course).
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One mystery was never solved, however: if Mars once had oceans, how come scientists haven't been able to identify the shorelines formed by waves?
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That's especially true of plastic gathered on shorelines and in the ocean, because plastic products of all sorts are determinedly bad for marine life.
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The governor stressed on Monday that the legislation is a "first step" of among several efforts to protect the state's shorelines and natural resources.
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Hotter temperatures could result in sea level rise up to 60 meters (197 ft) from today's shorelines, swamping coastal populations and forcing communities inland.
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Living shorelines are not appropriate for every location; container ships can't dock in a salt marsh, so shore hardening is necessary in major ports.
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They worry about the quality of life that children born today will have as shorelines flood, wildfires rage and extreme weather becomes more common.
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As you bike or hike through craggy shorelines and woodlands, you'll glimpse wild turkeys, red foxes, bald eagles, peregrine falcons, seals, otters and porpoises.
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It's a portmanteau of burqa and bikini, both of which have also inspired outrage and horror on the streets and shorelines of the world.
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According to this view, the first Americans migrated along the Pacific West Coast, traveling along the shorelines of what is now Alaska and British Columbia.
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When the ice sheets melt, the water has nowhere to go but into the ocean and will affect shorelines around the world, Professor Raymo said.
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It would be painful, but humanity could adapt by building floodgates and sea walls, rethinking patterns of real estate development, and retreating from vulnerable shorelines.
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Forecasters are also stressing the ability of this storm to produce surges of four to five feet along the New Jersey and New York shorelines.
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Drinking water, sewage, transportation, communication and energy infrastructure are all potentially under threat if measures are not taken to protect the shorelines and city infrastructure.
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The cleanup efforts were reportedly carried out by the nonprofit's "Adopt-a-Beach" program, which gathers volunteers each year to cleanup trash along the shorelines.
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The committee advanced bills that would bar drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico near Florida shorelines.
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The Chinese juniper and the eastern red cedar, two evergreen conifers, are highly tolerant of aerosols and high wind, so they are planted along shorelines.
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Trilobites Tsunamis waves tall enough to swallow the Statue of Liberty washed away the shorelines of Mars's ancient ocean, according to a study published Thursday.
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Pre-disaster mitigation can include elevating homes and roads in flood-prone areas, making structures wildfire resistant, or supporting nature-based defenses like living shorelines.
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This may be a book about one of America's most magnificent shorelines, but the nature writer Robert Finch isn't dishing up a breezy beach read.
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" Beck noted, "Storms have shaped our shorelines for millennia, and for most of that time our reefs and wetlands stood as guardians against those storms.
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To answer that question, we looked at EPA data on who is seeking permits under the Clean Water Act to fill wetlands, streams and shorelines.
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Of growing concern to forecasters is the potential, too, for major coastal flooding along the New Jersey and Delaware shorelines, likely extending to southern New England.
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Sand mining isn't necessary terrible for the environment, however, said Robert Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
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In the Solomon Islands, receding shorelines have destroyed some villages and rising sea levels have submerged five uninhabited islands, according to a study published in May.
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In the two photographs in 33 Kilometres—the distance between France and the United Kingdom—Pétillon places his white balloons on the shorelines of each country.
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But over the past century, coastal development and recreational use of shorelines have vastly reduced the amount of waterfront property available to the sand-colored shorebirds.
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While environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy have promoted these soft solutions for years, a new federal law is also propelling living shorelines into the mainstream.
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The sills of living shorelines — often made of crushed rock or bags of oyster shells, placed about 15 feet offshore — are positioned in front of wetlands.
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These shorelines, while beautiful and secluded, shield the main attraction: vast expanses of fertile land built, in part, with the very sediment that corrupted the Markermeer.
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Solar storms that disrupt the Earth's magnetic field may be scrambling gray whales' internal GPS and causing them to strand on shorelines, a new study found.
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The term "managed retreat" has been in use for more than two decades, and originally applied mostly to ecological conservation projects on rural shorelines facing erosion.
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This week, thousands of residents and vacationers in southeastern Australia were forced to evacuate to shorelines as bush fires encircled communities and razed scores of buildings.
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Nikki Haley is evacuating about a quarter of the state's residents — about 2145 million people — from nearly 23 miles from its coastal shorelines beginning at 22 p.m.
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BP's growing deepwater investments irk some environmentalists, who say the company has fought paying what it owes to restore shorelines and communities damaged by its massive spill.
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In Seward's Icebox, as soon as the mercury nudges above 55 degrees, most of us are donning shorts to splay our pasty torsos out on rocky shorelines.
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"You can have buildings or you can have beaches, but you can't have both," says Orrin Pilkey, founder of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines.
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At home in New York I'm used to seeing plastic on shorelines and the sides of streets every day when I'm out driving or walking the dog.
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Tracing ancient shorelines When Gossfield stumbled upon the skull in 1929, he mistakenly believed it belonged to Homo erectus, a prehistoric species of humans originating in Africa.
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Much of the Corps's money has been spent on dredging sand from the seafloor and piling it up on shorelines between oceanfront real estate and the water.
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Nike footwear has washed onto shorelines all over the world, including reports last year that 60 Nike shoes were found on remote Flores Island in the Atlantic.
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"This caused an underwater landslide and eventually caused the tsunami," said Dwikorita Karnawati, head of the meteorological agency, adding that the waves hit shorelines 24 minutes later.
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By 2050, the researchers projected losses of 43% to 15.2% of global beaches, amounting to 22,430 to 25,172 miles (36,097 to 40,511 km) of lost sandy shorelines.
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Thousands of people cram the shorelines, as racers dodge hundreds of spectator boats, and television helicopters buzz above the fleet as it sails into the Tasman Sea.
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In fact, the large waves and surge from Dorian hit shorelines across more than a dozen countries and 15 US states and territories, from Grenada to Newfoundland.
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Though mangroves have a reputation of being incredibly resilient, "shorelines damaged in one event no longer have time to recover ... before the next severe event," he added.
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There are beautiful parks and shorelines right there, but one of the other highlights is the Warehouse Cafe — a quirky, huge bar set inside an old warehouse.
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As lawmakers consider disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Florence, projects to rebuild North Carolina's shrunken shorelines are likely to get a healthy chunk of government money.
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The trend has destroyed a key ecosystem for carbon storage, added to emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide, and exposed shorelines and communities to storm surges and erosion.
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Meanwhile, climate change and other ways in which we've degraded forests, prairies, and shorelines around the world now put food security, human health, and ecosystems at grave risk.
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"Canadians know firsthand the impacts of plastic pollution, and they're tired of seeing their beaches, parks, streets, and shorelines littered with plastic waste," he said in a statement.
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A man who was fishing along the shore in Quezon, along the south of Luzon, was struck by lightning, and several others on shorelines along the archipelago drowned.
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India commands meaningful advantages within its environs — just as China commands meaningful advantages, vis-à-vis a stronger United States, when encounters take place off East Asian shorelines.
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"Canadians know firsthand the impacts of plastic pollution, and they're tired of seeing their beaches, parks, streets, and shorelines littered with plastic waste," Trudeau said in a statement.
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"Canadians know first-hand the impacts of plastic pollution, and are tired of seeing their beaches, parks, streets, and shorelines littered with plastic waste," Trudeau said in a statement.
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Another 3 to 5 inches of rain was expected on the other islands, and high surf has been forecast on all southern and eastern shorelines of the Hawaiian islands.
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They found it covering the Mediterranean Sea bed, the shorelines of Bermuda, and Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, a World Heritage site that has been severely affected.
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The news is dire, because coral reefs are rich biodiverse ecosystems that provide habitat for marine life, host algae that produces oxygen, and even protect our shorelines from storms.
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Moscow has built and is building nuclear power stations, nuclear-powered icebreakers, chemical facilities, and communications installations in the Arctic while rivers, and shorelines there are all at risk.
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After years of surveying ancient shorelines around the world, scientists determined that the sea level rose by something like 20 to 19903 feet in that era, compared with today.
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Despite warnings from climate scientists about rising seas and stronger storms, state and local officials have allowed real estate developers to line the Sunshine State's shorelines with high-rises.
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Industrial land reclamation began in earnest in the late nineteenth century, as the city's British rulers attempted to expand their new possession by dredging out bays and advancing shorelines.
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A different take on consumption and disposability was on view in the studio of Elena Soterakis at the NARS Foundation, where meticulously collaged seascapes highlighted shorelines full of cheerful waste.
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Rob Young, Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, said that Hurricane Michael was pushing the red tide offshore as it was approaching.
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The geologic shape of Mars' ancient shorelines and its immediate inland areas indicates that two large meteorites—striking the planet millions of years apart—triggered a pair of mega-tsunamis.
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From an early pan of twilit palm trees to scenes of rocky shorelines and greasy spoons, Aaron Katz's Gemini presents Los Angeles as a glam-noir hillscape of psychological whiplash.
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The former factory worker uses driftwood, pebbles and shells to create his cameras, combing the shorelines of his home for parts of fallen trees, naturally polished by the sea's waves.
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Living shorelines are easy to install, compared with seawalls, and cost far less; the average expense is $361 per linear foot, about a third the price of a concrete bulkhead.
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The Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 comes at a good time; over the past decade, coastal municipalities have gradually incorporated living shorelines into their standard permitting processes, reducing red tape.
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As rising waters push back the park's shorelines and reduce its trees, the animals that tempt visitors to the area are also coming under pressure, said park guard Mirna Cortes Obando.
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Although red tides occur frequently in Florida, its endurance this year, he explained, has allowed the algae to stick around long enough for natural currents to drop it near other shorelines.
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To be clear, this map is only indirectly connected to the rapid melt scientists are now witnessing at Greenland's tattered shorelines, which is driven heat in the atmosphere and the ocean.
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As they enjoyed their Italian getaway, which included visits to Rome and Positano (on the Amalfi coast), Paltrow documented their trip on Instagram with scenic photos of shorelines and homemade pasta.
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But surely more have perished in the months since, as sheets of the bulbous-tipped seaweed—sometimes several feet deep—have become regular visitors to the country's eastern and southern shorelines.
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The Coast Guard said that as of sunset on Tuesday evening, when the effort was formally called off, some 40,000 square nautical miles of ocean had been searched, along with shorelines.
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If it melts entirely, Thwaites could cause sea levels to rise by two feet and it is already believed to contribute 10 percent of the meltwater that's pushing shorelines higher worldwide.
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Due to the severity of the forecast, more than 1.4 million people were told they must evacuate from the shorelines of North and South Carolina, as well as parts of Virginia.
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A US official said the sailors were on board two 38-foot, high-speed vessels called riverine patrol boats, which the US Navy and Marines use to patrol rivers and shorelines.
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His body was discovered by a college student Monday morning, along the shorelines of Sheepshead Bay, a neighborhood now known for its multiple marinas and its eastern European and Russian immigrant community.
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The State of New York has pledged $300 million to raise roadways, upgrade sewers and armor shorelines to help blunt wave action and reduce flooding on the south shore of Lake Ontario.
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The Inupiat hunting and fishing community has held out against rising water levels and diminishing shorelines for decades, but even its subsistence lifestyle is becoming unsustainable as surrounding ice continues to melt.
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In the past decade, plastics have been found in the ocean's deepest and most remote points, collecting in massive, dense clumps, and clogging the stomachs of marine life washed up onto shorelines.
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But this might change, if the problems caused by climate change—not just stronger hurricanes, droughts, and rising seas, but political rupture—keep washing up on the disappearing shorelines of wealthy governments.
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From near extinction, the snowy egret is once again a fixture along any number of coastal waterways and quiet freshwater ponds and creeks — a common bird along New York City's summer shorelines.
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"We're showing that the shorelines were there, but they were overrun and buried by the tsunami waves," said J. Alexis Rodriguez, a Mars geologist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz.
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In 2900, communities up and down the Atlantic coast successfully advocated to keep oil and gas development away from their shorelines, coastal neighborhoods, and vibrant economies dependent on clean and healthy waters.
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There are some sandy spots along its shorelines that Mr. Gershenhorn said could be opened by the city as beaches, including a stretch of Hudson shoreline just below the George Washington Bridge.
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The fact that Florence is expected to move slowly as it approaches landfall means there's a lot of energy and time for storm surges to accumulate along shorelines, bays, rivers, and inlets.
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Florida's Governor Rick Scott has issued a state of emergency for the five counties and local governments now face an uncertain and uphill battle as they work to clean up their shorelines.
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Large and damaging surf can be expected along exposed shorelines, especially along south and west facing coasts, with localized storm surge exacerbating the impacts of a prolonged period of damaging surf. 4.
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Plastic straws, however, make up only about 1% of all items found on shorelines as part of a citizen science effort to track coastal trash run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The legislation enshrined in law the state's public trust doctrine, which ensures that tidal waters and adjacent shorelines be available to the public for navigation, commerce and recreation, including bathing, swimming and fishing.
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The Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates better beach access, reports that several states, including Maine, Massachusetts and Virginia, have favored the interests of beachfront property owners by limiting public access to shorelines.
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In just a couple of weeks, residents will vote on a property tax that that would generate $25.7 million over 27 years to fund habitat restoration and cleanup projects along the region's shorelines.
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The more than 120 living shorelines around the country are showing that a combination of oyster reefs, oyster shells, rocks, marsh plants, and other natural materials can be an effective alternative to seawalls.
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Experts have also questioned the wisdom of erecting more concrete defenses in a country that has already dammed most of its major river systems and fortified entire shorelines with breakwaters and concrete blocks.
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She suspects the dieoff patterns are due to greater human disturbance close to shorelines, and in the case of Florida Bay, changes following the widespread drainage of the Everglades in the early 20th century.
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BP USA noted in a reply by email "that all available evidence confirms that oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident did not reach Mexican waters or shorelines," attaching a report by a US scientist.
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The bike's powerful motor and hydraulic brakes combined with those fat tires handled anything I threw it: flat asphalt roads, steep dirt trails, rock faces, downed trees, sea water, shorelines, and even loose sand.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New Orleans, leaving U.S. barge companies that haul grain, coal and other bulk goods counting their losses.
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MOSCOW — The five countries with shorelines on the Caspian Sea agreed on Sunday to a formula for dividing up the world's largest inland body of water and its potentially vast oil and gas resources.
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According to The Verge's Thomas Ricker, who had a great experience on a prototype model, you'll get around with ease on flat asphalt roads, steep dirt trails, rock faces, downed trees, seawater, and shorelines.
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You may think penguins live in the Arctic tundra, but the aquatic birds can be found on beaches, islands, and shorelines across the Southern Hemisphere — and in one exceptional case, north of the equator.
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After Aracelis Girmay Twin shorelines at the end of my name, traffickers of white space, you could last on the tongue forever, lolling, longing, an endless drawing out of the little stream between you.
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Much of the dieback seems to have occurred in Florida Bay (where coral cover was an estimated 88% higher in the late 18th century) and close to shorelines (an estimated 69% higher per Gauld's maps).
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A combination of high onshore winds, unusually high tides due to a full moon, as well as building waves as the storm slowly moves away, will cause a damaging storm surge along east-facing shorelines.
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The most devastating came on Boxing Day in 2004, when a magnitude 9.5 quake triggered a massive tsunami that killed around 226,000 people along the shorelines of the Indian Ocean, including over 126,000 in Indonesia.
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They breed in the High Arctic tundra — the very northernmost ranges of Canada, Asia, and Greenland — but they winter along shorelines all along the United States and South America, as far south as Cape Horn.
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Initially an ecological term used to describe shorelines moving inland because of erosion, retreat has expanded to encompass an increasingly popular idea among a small but growing cadre of academics, environmental researchers, and urban planners.
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"In many cases, beach nourishment is subsidizing the most vulnerable and exposed property in the United States," said Robert S. Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
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The shallow-draft ship, designed for action near shorelines and around islands, is expected to be headed to Singapore as part of a stated US Navy plan to put forward-deploy two ships there this year.
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The storm is pounding the New Jersey and Delaware shorelines with 22-foot waves and a 3 to 5-foot storm surge that sent water levels to all-time highs in some locations on Saturday morning.
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Places like Miami Beach are trucking in thousands of tons of sand to patch up badly eroded shorelines, while others have built massive sea walls and breakwaters in an attempt to hold precious sand in place.
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Robert S. Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, said Congress should appoint a group of technical experts to decide which coastal communities the federal government should protect.
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The more living shorelines that are built, and the more existing marshes that are preserved, the greater the protective factor, but the degree to which coastal habitats protect the shoreline depends in great part upon acreage.
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Kodiak Island, the second largest in the United States, is best known for the main quarry of our trip, the oversized subspecies of brown bear, the Kodiak bear, that is unique to its mountains and shorelines.
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The wisdom of putting trade in there is not obvious when you have to figure out what to do about potential adversaries with nuclear-armed submarines along America's Atlantic and Pacific shorelines, undetectable hypersonic weapons, etc.
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Climate change will continue to menace shorelines, create extreme weather, and imperil agriculture and fishing — and this is, unfortunately, going to happen even if a Democrat wins the presidency this year and rejoins the Paris agreement.
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Yet the consequences of missing the target are devastating, particularly for arid regions like the Mediterranean, and low-lying ones like Bangladesh and the Eastern seaboard in America, where shorelines are being gnawed by rising seas.
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Based on extensive geological evidence, scientists already knew that the sea level rose drastically at the end of the last ice age, by almost 400 feet, causing shorelines to retreat up to a hundred miles in places.
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A few particularly productive sites for jointweed include Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, the east side of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, and the sparse soils near the shorelines of Mount Loretto on Staten Island.
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I had recently learned that in springtime, the shorelines of southern New York City, from Plumb Beach to Big Egg Marsh, teem with thousands of horseshoe crabs that crawl ashore with the evening high tide to spawn.
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And the shelters, and those who live in them, remain at the mercy of more difficult to predict quakes: Even now, earthquakes of at least a 3 magnitude continue to shake the shorelines of Puerto Rico daily.
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Look for these foot-tall shorebirds along bay shorelines and inlets, where they can be observed probing the tidal mud flats with their elongate bills, searching for worms and small crustaceans like juvenile crabs or grass shrimp.
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As examples to highlight his theory, the representative from Alabama pointed to rocky shorelines across the California coast and the White Cliffs of Dover along the English Channel that break off and tumble into the water every year.
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The newspaper reports that data from the environmental group Alliance for the Great Lakes shows that trash volunteers have cleaned up more than 18,000 pieces of waste from balloons from the lakes' shorelines spanning from 2016 to 2018.
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Many beaches that attract frolicking vacationers may be turned into rocky remnants as rising seas, changing weather patterns and other factors erode sandy shorelines that now account for more than a third of global sea coasts, they added.
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The suit was one of several filed by cities and local governments around the country that argued in part the production of fossil fuels had led to rising tides that damaged shorelines, roads and other properties requiring remediation.
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" But Dr. Robert Young, the director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, is concerned the march will turn off Trump supporters and those who need to be reminded "why science is important.
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On top of the wintry precipitation, coastal flooding brought back memories of Hurricane Sandy along part of the New Jersey and Delaware shorelines, with record coastal flood levels recorded at both Cape May, New Jersey and Lewes, Delaware, on Saturday morning.
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In the United States, the fastest-growing uses include the fortification of shorelines eroded by rising sea levels and more and more powerful ocean storms—efforts that, like many attempts to address environmental challenges, create environmental challenges of their own.
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In recent decades, sea level rise combined with more frequent and severe storms has destroyed protective dunes, damaged historic structures and visitor facilities at the park and forced the relocation of the lighthouse and other buildings away from eroding shorelines.
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"The coast that we see today is just a snapshot in time," said Robert Young, the director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University and a coastal geologist who was not involved in this study.
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But in fact, Rockaway Beach has always gotten a lot of attention — almost $270 million in restoration efforts since 1930 (in today's dollars), as of the latest tabulation by the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
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The law, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, signed by President Trump in late October, requires the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to consider soft solutions such as living shorelines when planning to protect the coast against flooding.
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"Once the storm has passed, the Trump administration must rethink its dangerous denial of how climate change is increasing threats to people along America's shorelines," said Kassie Siegel, directly of the climate law institute at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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For example, streetlights near shorelines can cause baby turtles who have just hatched to become disoriented and wander inland instead of into the ocean, causing them to die because of dehydration or exposure to predators, according to research by the Sea Turtle Conservancy.
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Here are some facts about the area and its residents, as well as shorelines under threat across the United States: SOURCES: Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, LA SAFE (Louisiana's Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments), Nola.
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And that has prompted Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of the Data Information Center and Public Relations of the National Disaster Management Agency, to speak out for "spatial planning" that places buildings a safe distance from shorelines, and for more strict building codes.
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The effort reveals the challenges other countries will also face as their shorelines retreat due to a combination of higher seas linked to global warming and coastal erosion driven by natural processes and manmade factors, such as poorly planned infrastructure and sand mining.
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Sinai presents a formidable arena for counterinsurgency that would challenge the most capable army: It is a vast terrain of desert and mountains, with long shorelines and a semiporous back door across the border into Gaza, which has been controlled by Hamas.
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While the amount of beach lost will vary by location, the study found that many densely populated areas -- including those along the US East Coast, South Asia and Central Europe -- could see some shorelines retreat inland by nearly 330 feet (100 meters) by 403.
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A report by the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University said that on its projected track and intensity, "this will be a worst-case scenario storm," with record storm surges and interruptions to electric power that could last for days.
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James Carnes, vice president of global brand strategy for Adidas, told CNN that the sustainable field that the company built was made from plastic bottles sourced from remote islands, beaches, coastal communities and shorelines -- all with the goal of preventing it from polluting the ocean.
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In March, lawmakers in New York agreed on a statewide ban on most types of single-use plastic bags from retail sales, making it the second state to do so after California, which has been at the national forefront of legislative action to ban plastics clogging shorelines.
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Lodging In this week's special Europe issue, explore the rivers, lakes and shorelines of 2410 favorite places; follow in the footsteps of Carl Linnaeus in Swedish Lapland; dine along the Adriatic coast between Venice and Trieste; and find a serene hotel with a water view (below).
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Footsteps In this week's special Europe issue, explore the rivers, lakes and shorelines of 2500 favorite places; follow in the footsteps of Carl Linnaeus in Swedish Lapland (below); dine along the Adriatic coast between Venice and Trieste; and find a serene hotel with a water view.
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At best the city was derided as a breeding ground for trouble — the port of entry for destructive insects, ground zero for an ever-increasing list of nonnative plants and animals, its woodlands and shorelines besieged by unfamiliar new creatures establishing themselves among the remaining natives.
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Choice Tables In this week's special Europe issue, explore the rivers, lakes and shorelines of 10 favorite places; follow in the footsteps of Carl Linnaeus in Swedish Lapland; dine along the Adriatic coast between Venice and Trieste (below); and find a serene hotel with a water view.
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The proposed inquiry, known as a royal commission, would look at that response, including the deployment of emergency services to deal with blazes that crossed state borders, streaked across mountain ranges and forced the evacuations of thousands of people along the country's eastern and southeastern shorelines.
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The reserve was established after years of negotiations, due in no small part to the efforts of one Lewis Pugh, a UN Environment 'Patron of the Oceans' and endurance swimmer who's taken a handful of highly-publicized dips along the Ross Sea's glacial shorelines wearing nothing but a speedo.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's revised five-year program to expand offshore drilling in most federal waters will be released "in the coming weeks," an Interior Department official said on Wednesday, after months of opposition from coastal state lawmakers opposed to exposing their shorelines to oil and gas exploration.
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Over the past few months, an estimated 2,000 tons of dead wildlife—killed by the red tide and other algae blooms—has washed up on Florida's western shorelines, and the cleanup and management effort from both saltwater and freshwater blooms has cost at least $16 million of dollars so far.
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Environmental groups warn that just opening the door to future drilling in pristine federal lands and waters could lead to more disasters like the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which sent millions of barrels of oil to the shorelines of coastal states, killing wildlife and destroying fragile ecosystems.
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Due to the blocking pattern, Hermine — which may either be a post-tropical storm by that point or a fully tropical system — is forecast to swirl around off the coast of southeastern New Jersey for about three days, allowing for the buildup of high seas and pounding of fragile shorelines.
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Here is a summary of what Florida and other coastal states and communities have been doing to protect and rebuild their shorelines based on to the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) data: * In 2394, New York City's neighborhood of Coney Island was the first to pour sand on its beaches.
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The region is far from alone in its predicament, or in its response to an eroding coast: it's becoming hard to find a populated beach in the United States that doesn't require regular infusions of sand, says Rob Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
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Here is a summary of what Florida and other coastal states and communities have been doing to protect and rebuild their shorelines based on to the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) data: * In 2394, New York City's neighborhood of Coney Island was the first to pour sand on its beaches.
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In the countryside, much of the terrain is hilly; within the cities, the destruction wrought by World War II and the rezoning brought by the 1980s economic bubble have resulted in development sites that are narrow, perilously close to streets or shorelines, abandoned or otherwise left in disarray by storms or residents who couldn't afford to maintain them.
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Wade | Dems threaten to subpoena Juul Dem leader says party can include abortion opponents Hoyer calls on GOP leader to denounce 'despicable' ad attacking Ocasio-Cortez MORE (D-Md.) plans to bring a vote on three separate bills to block offshore drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Gulf Coast and off the Pacific and Atlantic shorelines.
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In 933, Ingraham was cramped in a too-small home with his wife and twin toddlers in the Baltimore suburbs, commuting for three hours a day to his job in DC, where he wrote a blog post ranking the best and worst counties in America using data on "natural amenities" like mountains, shorelines, and average temperatures.
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While he is plundering our national parks, threatening to deport people who have lived their whole lives in the United States, watering down the defenses that have been established to protect the little guy against banking scams, or threatening to pollute our shorelines with oil rigs, among many other things, he is distracting us with vulgar language, tirades against other countries, and threats to abandon efficient foreign relations agreements.
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"The closing of the oyster harvest in Alabama last week represents a real hardship for both those who make a living on the water, but also impinges negatively on those who rely on oysters to protect adjacent shorelines and maintain or improve water quality and provide habitat for many species of shrimp, crabs, and fish," Seth Blitch, the Nature Conservancy's coastal and marine conservation director, said in an email to BuzzFeed News.
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