Proponents point out that some areas of sea bottom are devoid of anything special and can stand it.
The EU has 320, 000 km of coastline and economic activities at sea or in coastal areas produces 40% of the union's GDP.
Now all 14 of its 'berths' - areas of sea connected by cable to the shore - are booked, a sign of growing interest in this fledgling source of power.
In the Netherlands, where large areas are below sea level, the 1953 surge killed more than 1, 700 people.
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.
As the land was used up, huge areas were reclaimed from the sea and leased to builders.
The Special Areas of Conservation include the sea and seabed surrounding the Maidens Islands off Larne and those adjacent to the Portrush Skerries and Giant's Causeway.
The cleanest approach would be to get rid of federal flood insurance entirely and let the private market price the risks of living below sea level or in flood-prone areas.
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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The other processes that occur in the vicinity of inlets are of at least equal importance and coastline change in these areas as a result of rising sea levels has until now been strongly underestimated.
The Special Areas of Conservation at the Maidens include sandbanks, reefs and grey seals, while the areas protected at the Skerries and Causeway includes sea caves, sandbanks and reefs.
Influenced by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein (historians who helped establish a tradition of global comparative history), large numbers of Japanese intellectuals are beginning to realise that a global economic system existed in the areas around the Indian Ocean, the Arabic Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea long before the westernisation of the world.
The Aral Sea was dried up by upstream diversions of water for vast areas of irrigation.
The hospice covers Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding areas, including Highbridge, Burnham-on-Sea, Cheddar, Yatton, and Clevedon.
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One of the worst hit areas has been Sandilands near Sutton-on-Sea where sand has also covered people's gardens.
Ranging in size from one bedroom to three, the villas come equipped with fully appointed kitchens, bedroom-sized baths, indoor and outdoor dining areas and spacious balconies with commanding views of the sea.
Out of desperation, Exxon, BP and others poured billions into non-OPEC areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea and Alaska.
The area policed includes centres of population close to areas of significant rural landscape, shorelines along the North Sea and the Humber estuary.
He and other scientists are closely examining how reservoirs of oil in intertitle areas are still getting into organisms, from mussels to sea otters.
Although offshore oil-service companies compete hard for work in the North Sea, they are apparently willing to try co-operation in some areas.
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The challenge has been finding an alternative travel option by land and sea that takes them across the Middle East, while avoiding deadly conflict areas.
We can conserve many more areas that are important for biodiversity, on land and at sea, taking into account the aspirations and views of various sectors of society.
Much of NYC is also sea level and they fared well and were back up quickly in most areas (except the Rockaways which again, is serviced by LIPA).
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Under Hal Kvisle, who started as chief executive in September, Talisman is taking a more conservative financial approach and will focus on three core areas - the Americas, South East Asia and the North Sea.
Conservationists would also like to see Turkey adopting the idea of marine protection areas to care for underwater habitats such as the important Posidonia sea grass meadows, as well as its sealife and sunken ruins.
It involves learning where sponges grow, picking the right one, prying an intact sponge from the sea bottom, and using it on their noses to root around the right areas to find fish concealed in the sand.
The threat is more evident in heavily populated low-lying areas, and the risk multiplies with prospects of climate change and associated sea-level rise.
In key areas like slip catching, England are superbly drilled but Pakistan look all at sea.
He argued that the sea gets it iron from dust swept into the sea from the land, and that wind currents weren't carrying iron to HNLC areas.
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