Sentence examples for ocean impacts from inspiring English sources

Tonry added: "That is enough time to evacuate the area, take measures to protect buildings and other infrastructure, and be alert to a tsunami danger generated by ocean impacts".

"That is enough time to evacuate the area of people, take measures to protect buildings and other infrastructure, and be alert to a tsunami danger generated by ocean impacts," he said.

A paper in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science is the first effort to map 17 kinds of human ocean impacts like organic pollution, including agricultural runoff and sewage; damage from bottom-scraping trawls; and intensive traditional fishing along coral reefs.

Despite its climate-centric name and mission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, "IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems".

However, planetary scientist David Crawford of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, cautions that his own supercomputer calculations of ocean impacts produce tsunamis up to 10 times smaller than those in Ward and Asphaug's analysis.

He said the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was an important region for study because it was not very well mapped, was already experiencing major change and because in some places the ice had "its toes in the water", which meant it was subject to both atmospheric and ocean impacts.

"Chernobyl might have been five times bigger, over all, but the ocean impact was much smaller," Mr. Buesseler said.

For an object at the lower end of this size range, an ocean impact could cause more damage than one on land because it would result in large tsunamis that would devastate coastal areas for many kilometres inland.

But straws can travel down drains and end up in rivers and oceans, impacting on marine life.

On ocean warming impacts: Climate zones have shifted south, and the East Australian Current has advanced poleward by 350km over the last 60 years.

We are also examining ocean acidification impacts on soft corals in waters surrounding the Aleutian Islands, one of the most biodiverse deep sea coral sites anywhere in the world.