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Coastal in sentence

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This is a greenhouse designed for arid coastal regions, and the way it works is that you have this whole wall of evaporator grills, and you trickle seawater over that so that wind blows through, it picks up a lot of moisture and is cooled in the process.
60 to 80 percent of the workforce in China is women in the coastal part of the country, whereas in India, it's all men.
So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.
They were very important to coastal communities, going back hundreds of years, especially around the Claddaghduff, Connemara region where subsistence farmers used to sail out on their hookers and open boats, sometimes way offshore to a place called the Sunfish Bank, about 30 miles west of Achill Island, to kill the basking sharks.
They've been around a long time, very important to coastal communities.
So the Great Bear Rainforest is just over the hill there, within a few miles, we go from these dry boreal forests of 100-year-old trees, maybe 10 inches across, and soon, we're in the coastal temperate rainforest, rain-drenched, 1,000-year-old trees, 20 feet across, a completely different ecosystem.
And the Great Bear Rainforest is generally considered to be the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world.
And what we see is that for coastal tags, for those organisms that live near the shoreline, they're most diverse in the tropics.
And our cities are going to be at risk too, because a lot of these are coastal cities.
Well, the reason we're doing this offshore is because if you look at our coastal cities, there isn't a choice, because we're going to use waste water, as I suggested, and if you look at where most of the waste water treatment plants are, they're embedded in the cities.
The waste water that leaks out is water that already now goes into that coastal environment, and the algae that leak out are biodegradable, and because they're living in waste water, they're fresh water algae, which means they can't live in salt water, so they die.
Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities.
Most of the people who lived here either lived in coastal villages, fishing, or were nomads who roamed around with the environment trying to find water.
Now coastal countries have authority over 200 nautical miles from shore.
The first one: I'm from Lima, a product of mixed bloods, as you can see: my mother, a daughter of the coastal area, aristocratic and viceregal, and my father, a son of the Andes, the Incas, from Cuzco.
So in my home, the Andes and the coastal area, which are historically confrontational, ended up together because of love, as happened to most people from Lima, descendants of diverse backgrounds: Africans with people from the Amazons, Japanese with Andeans, Chinese with Italians.
And then there's a coastal plain along the Mediterranean, where Tel Aviv is now.
And connecting the mountain range with the coastal plain is an area called the Shephelah, which is a series of valleys and ridges that run east to west, and you can follow the Shephelah, go through the Shephelah to get from the coastal plain to the mountains.
But more importantly, though, in the history of that region, it's served, it's had a real strategic function, and that is, it is the means by which hostile armies on the coastal plain find their way, get up into the mountains and threaten those living in the mountains.
The Philistines, who are the biggest of enemies of the Kingdom of Israel, are living in the coastal plain.
It turns out the fish, conveniently, are located for the most part in our coastal areas of the countries, in coastal zones, and these are areas that national jurisdictions have control over, and they can manage their fisheries in these coastal areas.
How many fish are actually in these coastal areas compared to the high seas?
Well, you can see here about seven times as many fish in the coastal areas than there are in the high seas, so this is a perfect place for us to be focusing, because we can actually get a lot done.
We can restore a lot of our fisheries if we focus in these coastal areas.
There's something like 80 coastal countries.
Why stop at 436 when you can expand that to 8,040, minute by minute, and do the iconic journey in Norway, the coastal ship journey Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes, almost 3,000 kilometers, covering most of our coast.
So in June 2011, 23 of us went on board the Hurtigruten coastal ship and we set off. (Music) I have some really strong memories from that week, and it's all about people.
Well, this is what happens to a lot of coastal mangrove forests.
We've lost millions of acres of coastal mangroves over the last 30 or 40 years.
The subsequent international media forced the local government to pledge 10 million dollars in coastal cleanups.
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