The sea level monitoring network comprising deep sea tsunami monitoring buoys and coastal sea level gauges operated well and were crucial in confirming that a large tsunami wave had not been generated.
Linda Smoak, a retired nurse who chairs a Republican women's club group in coastal Sea Island, signed on with Mr. Gingrich a few weeks ago after her favorite, Herman Cain, suspended his campaign.
De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea.
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Hotels, condos, a stadium and gleaming Olympic ice palaces are sprouting from the Black Sea coastal lowlands, uprooting residential neighborhoods.
He said he was especially impressed by the Black Sea coastal town of Batumi, where Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was on hand to show him around.
Problems arise from conflicts between different uses of coastal land and waters, overexploitation of coastal resources, discharge of wastes and effluents into coastal waters, increasing stress by sea level change and growth of coastal population.
The region has the highest water bills in the UK, partly because of the cost of keeping the coastal region's sea water clean.
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Coastal managers are using sea-level-rise data to protect crucial infrastructure.
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The EU has 320, 000 km of coastline and economic activities at sea or in coastal areas produces 40% of the union's GDP.
Africa may have to look to South Africa, the continent's sole coastal country between the Red Sea and the Cape with a proper navy.
So the coastal waters of the Yellow Sea have long been the "theater" in which Pyongyang could most easily provoke a crisis, and most easily legitimize it.
The flooding, which began on the night of 31 January, was caused by a combination of a high spring tide, deep atmospheric low pressure which raised sea levels and exceptionally strong northerly gales, which led to a surge of sea water over coastal defences.
Unseasonably cold sea temperatures are damaging coastal businesses in Jersey, according to those in the industry.
The flood victims died on 31 January when sea water breached the coastal defences causing widespread damage along England's east coast.
The brief criticizes BP for, among many other things, downplaying the plight of sick dolphins in Barataria Bay, La, of dead and dying deep-sea corals and of coastal marshes still matted with oil.
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Coastal ponds are usually separated from the sea by a sand dune a few metres high.
The braised halibut was sparingly decorated with coastal herbs, including oyster leaf and sea aster.
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Coastal areas are at increasing risk from sea-level rise and storm surge.
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Yet the megacities are where climate migrants are expected to move to, and they are often in the coastal areas most at risk from rising sea levels.
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But that is not the case for many cities that have risen, often anarchically, on a coastal arc from China to the Arabian Sea, luring millions in search of a better life.
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Extreme European summers would cause hundreds of thousands of deaths due to heat stress while rising sea levels would devastate vulnerable coastal areas and cities including New York, London, Shanghai and Bombay.
Jaffa, an ancient coastal city, is the bride of the sea, and Palestine's gateway to the world.
Well, beyond the obvious (they are living things), sea turtles play key roles in coastal ecosystems.
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North of Aldeburgh is a trail of serene and little-visited coastal heritage towns that are gradually succumbing to the sea.
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As a result of rising sea levels from warming global temperatures, coastal communities will require vastly expensive upgrades to key infrastructure such as subways, power grids and hospitals to boost their resiliency to stronger storms.
Some of the most frightening forecasts in the report centre on the increasing pace of coastal erosion expected to accompany climate change, as sea levels continue to rise and low-lying shores become more vulnerable to storm surges.
First, most of the resources in the Arctic 88% by one Chinese estimate and 95% by a Danish one will fall within the 200-mile exclusive economic zones enjoyed under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) by the five coastal countries, notably Russia.
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