Coastal

Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.

The coastal ecosystem of British Columbia is rapidly declining.

Coastal cities will take the brunt of the storm.

Seagulls are mainly coastal birds.

Blackpool is a coastal town.

The village lies on the border between the coastal and mountain regions.

Global warming will cause coastal flooding.

The polar caps partially melted and the sea level rose about a metre, so that more than a billion people on coastal areas had to be evacuated.

Accelerating climate change has caused serious impacts. Higher temperatures and extreme weather events are damaging food production, rising sea levels and more damaging storms are putting our coastal cities increasingly at risk and the impacts of climate change are already harming economies around the world, including those of the United States and China. These developments urgently require enhanced actions to tackle the challenge.

The high-density urban coastal corridor from Washington, DC, north to Boston is one of the most developed environments in the world, containing a massive, complex, and long-standing network of supporting infrastructure. The Northeast also has a vital rural component.