Sentence examples for flood coasts from inspiring English sources

Global warming threatens to flood coasts inhabited by half a billion people.

A further rise of 2.7 degrees to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, the range of possibilities over the next 100 years, could disrupt water supplies, flood coasts, destroy coral reefs and push vulnerable species like the Bengal tiger to extinction, according to the report.

The 1.4-degree Fahrenheit rise since 1880 confirms long-term warming patterns and renewed alarm about changes that could flood coasts, provoke more severe storms and dry out croplands around the globe, climate experts at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.

More than 200,000 people were killed by a series of waves that flooded coasts from Indonesia to Sri Lanka and even washed ashore on the Horn of Africa.

Our results not only provide pertinent information for hydrological regulation, navigation operation, and infrastructural design in the upper Great Lakes, but also provide insight into freshwater wetland succession on flooded coasts.

If you're worried about stronger hurricanes flooding coasts, he says, concentrate on limiting coastal development and expanding wetlands right now rather than trying to slightly delay warming decades from now.

The powerful blizzard that slammed the East Coast on Saturday quickly surpassed forecasters' dire predictions, claiming at least 18 lives, flooding coasts, unleashing hurricane-force winds and paralyzing life for residents of at least 20 states from Georgia to Massachusetts.

These refugees settled into makeshift camps, in a band between the flooded coast and the hinterland.

Just as many Easterners resist stepping back from their increasingly flooded coast, Westerners build where they want to build.

Health problems arose particularly along the easily flooded coast, where the many ditches and ponds provide ideal environments for the spread of disease.