Sentence examples for increased erosion from inspiring English sources

Negative impacts for Europe will include "increased risk of inland flash floods, and more frequent coastal flooding and increased erosion".

The presence of all this development has contributed to and increased erosion and other environmental problems.

But on the debit side, it has had a devastating effect on fish populations, and led to increased erosion and landslides, and poorer water quality downstream.

Depletion of forest resources and increased erosion, however, have led the government to impose logging bans and enact other legislation to reestablish the country's woodlands.

This is a precarious existence, because both increased erosion, which wipes out plants, and human efforts to recapture coasts, which involve much greater plant growth to hold soils in place, can both spell disaster for the butterfly.

As farmers fell trees to make space for land, deforestation has a negative effect on crop yields as increased erosion and surface run-off wash the nutrients from the once-rich volcanic soils.

Likewise, high ratios of the strontium isotopes 87Sr to 86Sr typically indicate periods of increased erosion as radiogenic strontium was transferred from the continents to the ocean during warmer intervals of climate.

The last major glaciation near the end of the Pleistocene Epoch about 11,700 years ago greatly increased erosion and sediment supply to the deep sea, but deep-sea trenches interrupted the flow of turbidity currents to the ocean floor.

Officials involved with the cleanup are well aware of the drawbacks to these approaches: huge amounts of radioactive waste that no one wants to store long-term; immense investments of money, labor, and time; damage to wildlife habitat and soil fertility; increased erosion on scraped-bare hillsides; and intrusion by people and machinery into every area scheduled for remediation.

Although the rise of oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago suggests that increased erosion and, therefore, an increased flux of metals into the environment was inevitable, the large amount of freshly formed granite were undoubtedly an important source of metals too, he adds.

Research on materials (Report of scientific research 1990) shows increase in the spending of water from Zhideli accompanied by increased erosion the deepening of watercourses and river bed shows that the average depth of the channel from 1986 to 1988 increased by 1.3 m.