People don't easily understand how a small sea level rise can result in bigger storm surges and coastal damage, or how slight changes in ocean temperatures can change global rainfall patterns, leading to droughts and floods with catastrophic economic and societal consequences.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a rancorous dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
Even a small increase in sea level can mean a lot more flooding in a storm, and more frequent floods than in the past.
Currently, onshore exploration is small compared to sea-based exploration.
He recently announced plans to record a full-length record, Small Boat, Big Sea, later this year.
Climate scientists have been intrigued by observations that Antarctic sea ice shows a small but statistically significant expansion of about 1.9% per decade since 1985, while sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking over past decades.
North-east of the South China Sea lies a small crop of islands that Japan and China are squabbling over.
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But he does it in an unexpected place: not at the company's base on the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia, Canada, but in a small warehouse far from the sea in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Ventura County blaze, which was expected to reach the Pacific Ocean, crossed the scenic Pacific Coast Highway that separates the Santa Monica Mountains from the sea, and small fires damaged a military firing range, a Navy spokeswoman said.
In an interview to be broadcast early next week, Mr Grimsson told the Newsnight programme's Joe Lynam that his country was surrounded by an arc of successful, small nations in the North Sea, who were all doing relatively well.
The lessons learned from this journey will undoubtedly be of great value to other nations that are just now taking baby steps, and who are smart enough to pay attention to the accomplishments of this small island on the North Sea.
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As many small shops were engulfed by the sea, coddling them is hardly a pressing matter.
An appeal for volunteers has been launched in the Isle of Man in an effort to eradicate the rat population on a small bird sanctuary in the Irish Sea.
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While only slightly slower, the King Air 250 requires about one-third less runway at sea level than most small-cabin jets, and it is particularly adept at short, rugged or unimproved airstrips and high and hot mountain airports, which allows for greater access to hundreds of additional small communities.
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Rumoured to be the most beautiful sea kayaking spot in the country, the small fishing village on the west side of Glandore Harbour has a secluded beach cove and a network of around 10 sea caves and inlets.
"Essentially a small amount of this material in the sea will pollute a lot of birds, " he said.
On Sunday afternoon the veterans and French and British dignatories attended a ceremony of remembrance at which 60 small ships formed a circle out at sea, while a Lancaster bomber flew over.
That odd beach vendor chant is the sound of summer in the Crimea, a small Ukrainian peninsula that juts into the Black Sea.
The MCA, which is now investigating the source of the pollution, said under maritime pollution regulations and "stringent conditions" PIB can be released into the sea in "very, very small concentrations".
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Wintertime Antarctic sea ice has been increasing at a small rate and with substantial natural year-to-year variability.
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The small country, north of Iran on the Caspian Sea, is home to the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium.
The Security Council this afternoon expressed concern that the possible adverse effects of climate change could, in the long-run, aggravate certain existing threats to international peace and security and that the loss of territory in some States due to sea-level rise, particularly in small low-lying island States, could have possible security implications.
It still maintains a small navy and each year celebrates the Day of the Sea.
Like the other structures in Lingshui, the sea turtle hospital is little more than a small dock topped with a hut.
The report calls on a specific budgetary allocation for the Black Sea strategy, with a priority on funding small-scale development projects and cross-border co-operation.
It is mostly small communities where people often make their living from the sea, either working in the oil and gas industry or as fishermen.
Leaders of small island states, which are on the front lines of sea-level rise, were less enthusiastic.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) Public television in the Cape Verde Islands says U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international drug trade.
His dad owned a small paper-products firm, but Economou was drawn to the sea.
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