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The U.S. Pacific Islands region includes more than 2,000 islands spanning millions of square miles of ocean. Rising air and ocean temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, changing frequencies and intensities of storms and drought, decreasing streamflows, rising sea levels, and changing ocean chemistry will threaten the sustainability of globally important and diverse ecosystems as well as local communities, livelihoods, and cultures.
Source: tatoeba (3651112)
In some countries, when a herd of elephants encroaches upon the agricultural livelihoods of farmers, the elephants can be exterminated.
Source: tatoeba (4587306)
Dozens of water buffalo in Iraq's southeastern wetlands have died because of low water levels in the marshes, threatening the livelihoods of a community of marsh dwellers that has made the area its home for millennia.
Source: tatoeba (7011547)
Americans increasingly recognize the risks climate change poses to their everyday lives and livelihoods and are beginning to respond.
Source: tatoeba (7523540)
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Closest matches include development concept, income diversification, income sources, income systems, living strategies.
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