Reefs
in sentence
211 examples of Reefs in a sentence
So anyone with similar interests should see this documentary as it makes a strong message about the
reefs
and shows the beauty we all may lose if left unprotected.
Almost immediately, the China State Shipbuilding Industry Corporation – which is currently building the country’s third aircraft carrier – published on its website draft blueprints for manmade islands atop reefs, including drawings of structures that have come to define China’s Spratly construction program.
The coral
reefs
China has destroyed to use as the foundation for its islands provided food and shelter for many marine species, as well as supplying larvae for Asia’s all-important fisheries.
Aiming to establish a fait accompli concerning its claims to sovereignty in the area, China has lately been engaged in concerted dredging and reclamation works on several
reefs
and shoals of the disputed Spratly Islands.
Thousands of coral reefs, seagrass beds, and other shallow-water ecosystems are rapidly being destroyed and buried as China’s leaders rush to stake their claim to the region.
This includes “refraining from action of inhabiting on the presently uninhabited islands, reefs, shoals, cays, and other features and to handle their differences in a constructive manner.”
Even the chemistry of the land and ocean is changing, with the ocean becoming more acidic – thus threatening coral
reefs
– as a result of higher carbon dioxide.
As we overdraw on our planet’s accounts, it is starting to levy penalties on the global economy, in the form of extreme weather events, accelerated melting of ice sheets, rapid biodiversity loss, and the vast bleaching of coral
reefs.
Otherwise, the world will suffer irreversible damage in the form of rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity, and deterioration of both land and marine ecosystems, including the potential extinction of the world’s coral
reefs.
The reports will highlight trends and plausible futures, outlining the best policy options available to slow the degradation of ecosystems, from coral
reefs
to rainforests.
Killing the CuresBOSTON – Biodiversity is essential for the functioning of ecosystems – from forests and fresh waters to coral reefs, soils, and even the atmosphere – that sustain all life on Earth.
What critics of China’s land reclamation need to understand is that, even without any credible sovereignty claims to the sea area in question, or any islands within it, under international law China does have the right to build artificial islands and installations, including airstrips, on outlying
reefs
and shoals.
Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral
reefs
in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.
But every dollar spent to protect mangroves and coral
reefs
saved $20 in future hurricane losses.
Targets such as achieving universal access to contraception and family planning, ending tuberculosis by 2030, freer global trade, ending fossil-fuel subsidies, and protecting coral
reefs
would help the environment and improve billions of lives.
Coral
reefs
are the world's most biologically rich marine ecosystems, harboring some of the world's most beautiful organisms.
Yet global deterioration of coral
reefs
is severe and ongoing.
We must mediate the severity of global warming, while simultaneously conserving the resilience of coral
reefs.
This means that once predator species become depleted, fishing pressure shifts towards plant-eating fish species, leading to precipitous declines in the numbers of herbivores on coral
reefs.
Herbivorous fish are key players on coral
reefs.
Corals grow slowly, so
reefs
sustaining severe bleaching will not recover before they bleach again.
Two things can be done to protect coral
reefs.
Second, we must restore coral
reefs'
capacity to cope with environmental change--their resilience--by protecting the fish stocks that keep seaweed in check, and thereby facilitate the recovery of coral populations from bleaching.
The catastrophic collapse of fish stocks around the world--on coral
reefs
and elsewhere--has provided hard lessons about managing fisheries.
On coral reefs, these no-take zones can help insure that a portion of coral reef habitat sustains a healthy fish community, and secure the coral reef resilience that this brings.
This figure is far higher than levels of protection in even the wealthiest countries that harbor significant coral reefs, the US and Australia, where current levels of protection are less than 5%.
Given the magnitude of the threat to the world's coral reefs, the international community's response has been frighteningly slow.
Similarly, in the South China Sea, China’s naval forces follow fishermen to carve out space for the reclamation of rocks or
reefs.
In Africa, climate change may already be responsible for falling water levels in West African rivers; declining coral
reefs
in tropical waters; lower fruit production in the Sahel; fewer fish in the Great Lakes region; and the spread of malaria in the Kenyan uplands.
Obviously, when extremely strong waves hit coral reefs, some coral breaks off.
Back
Related words
Coral
World
Their
Which
There
Where
Islands
About
Would
Could
Corals
Marine
Global
Ecosystems
Change
Through
Other
Ocean
Island
Including