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  • noun Plural form of coastline.

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  • For instance, partial loss of ice sheets on polar land could imply metres of sea level rise, major changes in coastlines, and inundation of low-lying areas, with greatest effects in river deltas and low-lying islands.

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Nobel Lecture 2007

  • The rumble appeared to be linked to large ocean storms along certain coastlines, but the Californian team could not explain how waves created it.

    Earth’s Constant Hum Explained | Impact Lab 2007

  • Bills to help Katrina-stricken Gulf Coast residents by streamlining the insurance-claims process, making more affordable housing available, restoring coastal wetlands and giving states a bigger share of royalties on oil and gas produced off their coastlines will be among the first measures to be proposed if the Democrats take control of Congress in the November elections, members of that party's House caucus said Wednesday in New Orleans.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • The coastlines are the quarries, the mangroves, and the flooded areas.

    Trey Borzillieri: Seafood Crisis: A vital conversation with Jean-Michel Cousteau. 2009

  • Those calling for massive wind farms to be built around our coastlines are the same who object to large tidal power schemes - such as the Severn Barrage - on the grounds that they will directly affect local wildlife.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

  • Those calling for massive wind farms to be built around our coastlines are the same who object to large tidal power schemes - such as the Severn Barrage - on the grounds that they will directly affect local wildlife.

    Gwynt y Mor Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

  • So its very good research and its going to be important in the years to come for us to better understand what the impact of climate change on Australias coastlines will be.

    Australian Government Media Releases [All Portfolios] 2008

  • Bonds with a 50% yield, though rare, typically have a very short-term maturity and provide issuers with risk protection in areas such as coastlines, which are the most likely to be hit by a hurricane or heavy storm.

    Port in the Storm: Insurers' Catastrophe Bonds 2008

  • If climate change is too great, natural barriers, such as coastlines, spell doom for some species.

    The Threat to the Planet Hansen, Jim 2006

  • COOPER: So what kind of coastlines are most at risk?

    CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2004 2004

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