It will also help to repel saline intrusion in the coastal areas of the delta.
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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The State Department advises U.S. citizens traveling to the islands and in the coastal areas of eastern Sabah to exercise extreme caution and to be aware of threats from the Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group based in the southern Philippines.
McCain also has a lead among veterans, abortion-rights supporters, and voters who live in the coastal areas of the state -- but each of those groups is less than a third of all likely voters, and Bush has wide advantage among the remaining segments of the GOP primary electorate.
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Back on shore, Gabriel Kasozi, now of the Makerere University of Kampala in Uganda, studied the sediments in coastal areas of Louisiana after the disaster.
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No surprise, the big banks are located in the coastal urban areas that Democrats usually carry.
In China, as factories in the richer coastal areas switch to more sophisticated goods, the production of textiles and shoes can move inland where costs remain cheaper.
Until now, most of China's explosive growth in auto sales has been concentrated in the wealthier coastal areas near Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, where big, expensive sedans are popular.
It can acquire high-resolution data, especially in the steeply sloping coastal areas, where the radar altimeters flown on many other Earth observation satellites struggle to see important details.
He said that the main threats in Atlantic rainforest coastal areas include chemical pollution, urbanization, fishing and the newly-found offshore oil and gas wells.
The new process has obvious appeal in coastal areas where fresh water is scarce such as the Persian Gulf.
"We have already expressed our support, both morally and politically, for the process started by the Irish and we understand fully the worries they feel as they are the same worries we feel in relation to our own coastal areas, " the leader of Norway's parliamentary energy and environment committee, Bror Yngve Rahm, told Reuters.
In coastal areas of the United States, offshore resources tend to dwarf the land-based wind component with the exception of California, Texas, Maine and a few other states.
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The TsunamiReady Program, developed by the National Weather Service, is designed to help cities, towns, counties, universities and other large sites in coastal areas reduce the potential for disastrous tsunami-related consequences.
"Many of the camps are located in low-lying coastal areas, susceptible to tidal surge, " said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The EU has 320, 000 km of coastline and economic activities at sea or in coastal areas produces 40% of the union's GDP.
MMI, a polling organisation in Oslo, says the biggest shift in opinion towards membership has been in coastal areas.
In some cases, the increase in prices was even higher, especially in coastal areas and for land, according to research reports by real-estate firms.
This, in a country whose coastal areas otherwise resemble much of the U.S. in so many ways.
"We will present all project results to start a reflection on key issues facing the need to adapt in coastal areas in West Africa, "said Annie Bonnin Roncerel, Project coordinator.
Pupils in London, Manchester, Leicester, Nottingham and Peterborough, as well as in some coastal areas like Blackpool, Hull and the Isle of Wight were more likely to move school in-year, the RSA said.
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The protected areas limit both commercial and recreational fishing in hopes of restoring the coastal ecosystem.
The beds only exists in a few coastal areas and can take thousands of years to form.
But many blame the current frothiness of the housing market, particularly in dense coastal areas, on this policy.
Three months after Sandy ravaged coastal areas in much of the Northeast, Obama chided lawmakers for taking their time to approve the funding even as he commended them for providing the long-awaited aid.
At stake is the need to limit ocean acidification and the decline in biodiversity while setting up more effective institutional mechanisms to protect both the ocean and coastal areas.
According to a 1998 study by Louisiana State University, more than 500 million birds fly over the Gulf and enter the United States along coastal areas in Louisiana and Texas each spring.
This is no short-term uptick: insured losses due to extreme weather have been trending upward for 30 years, as the climate has changed and populations in coastal areas and other vulnerable places have grown.
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The Environment Agency said 1, 500 homes in low-lying areas would be at risk from flooding and coastal erosion without the flood defences.
The attitude represents a contrast to what typically has happened in other coastal U.S. areas that have been hit hard by big storms, such as the Gulf Coast and rural communities along the Mississippi shoreline.
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