News tagged with coast
Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding along the south coast of England
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 09, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at the University of Southampton has found that sea levels have been rising across the south coast of England over the past century, substantially increasing the risk of flooding ...
AES wind farm kicks off in Bulgaria
Oct 06, 2009 |
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AES Geo Energy, a Bulgarian unit of US energy giant AES Corporation, launched on Tuesday the largest 156-megawatt wind farm in Bulgaria, the company said.
I.Coast toxic dump 'still claiming lives'
Sep 19, 2009 |
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Three years after a ship dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, residents of a village off the main city of Abidjan are still traumatised by untimely deaths they say are linked to poisoning.
Fast-growing kelp invades San Francisco Bay
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A fast-growing kelp from the Far East has spread along the California coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay, worrying marine scientists and outpacing eradication efforts.
Warmer ocean brings fewer sardines to S.Africa
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Millions of sardines have begun their annual migration down South Africa's east coast, but fewer fish are making the journey due to rising ocean temperatures, a researcher said Monday.
Height of large waves changes according to month
May 29, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Cantabria, Spain, has developed a statistical model that makes it possible to study the variability of extreme waves throughout the year, according to the journal Coastal Engineering. The st ...
Mediterranean Sea level could rise by 61 cm
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A Spanish-British research project has come up with three future scenarios for the effects of climate change on the Mediterranean over the next 90 years, using global models from the Intergovernmental Panel ...
Invasive Parasite Spreading Among West Coast Estuaries
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A parasitic isopod that scientists identified five years ago has all but decimated mud shrimp populations in coastal estuaries ranging from British Columbia to northern California - with the ...
Erosion rates double along portion of Alaska's coast
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Skyrocketing coastal erosion occurred in Alaska between 2002 and 2007 along a 64 kilometer (40 mile) stretch of the Beaufort Sea, a new study finds. The surge of erosion in recent years, averaging more than double historical ...
Study says 'middle class' coral reef fish feel the economic squeeze
Feb 10, 2009 |
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The economy isn't just squeezing the middle class on land, it's also affecting fish.
Climate change may be stoking stronger winds, altered oceans
Feb 02, 2009 |
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The specter of an ocean floor littered with dead shellfish, rock fish, sea stars and other marine life off the Oregon coast spurred Mark Snyder, a climate change expert, to investigate whether California's coast faced a similar ...
Scientists: Earthquakes, El Ninos fatal to earliest civilization in Americas
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 19, 2009 |
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First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America's earliest civilization.
Food choices and location influence California sea otter exposure to disease
Biology /
Jan 19, 2009 |
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Sea otters living along the central California coast risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites as a consequence of the food they eat and where they feed.
Bays on US Gulf Coast vulnerable to flooding
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2008 |
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The most comprehensive geological review ever undertaken of the upper U.S. Gulf Coast suggests that a combination of rising seas and dammed rivers could flood large swaths of wetlands this century in one or more bays from ...
