The claim relates to damage to shoreline areas, wetlands, mangroves, intertidal and subtidal areas and coral reefs.

Tropical moist forests are the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, containing 60 to 90 per cent of the world's species.

It is extremely hot and humid in Bali in December.

(d) Wetter than normal conditions are usually observed along the west coast of tropical South America, and at subtropical latitudes of North America (the Gulf Coast) and South America (southern Brazil to central Argentina)

Background The Desertification Convention Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid, and dry sub humid areas.

It's wet.

USGS has also been cooperating with NASA plus the Universities of New Hampshire and Maryland to produce similar three date time series Landsat data sets for the Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project, which is studying the tropical forest regions of the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Hate the smell of dampness, don't you?

Thailand enjoys a tropical climate, with a high level of humidity throughout the year.

16. The native communities live in clearly identifiable ecological zones tropical dry forest, subtropical rain forest and tropical rain forest scattered over large catchment areas.

It has a total area of 318 million hectares which represents 6 per cent of the world apos s arid, semi arid and dry sub humid lands (ASALS) and 25 per cent of Africa apos s ASALS.

Then, tropical moisture interacting with the approaching trough will create widespread heavy rainfall in the Southwest over the coming days.

You were saying the cellars in Nevers are old and damp?

Here's a fog catcher, which, if you live in a moist, jungle like area, will distill water from the air that's clean and drinkable.

Since the entire country is located in the tropical zone, its climate should be hot and humid however, the existence of various geographical accidents and features the Andes, high pressure movement of air masses from the South Pacific, Humboldt Current, etc. makes the Peruvian territory geographically complex, not only from a climatic standpoint, but also from the morphological, geological, ecological and economic standpoints.

Kind of steamy here in New Orleans.

Little bit of wet rot, but not much.

It's very muggy and extremely damp.

The services provided by SCD 1 could be extended to cover all tropical and subtropical areas of the globe.

Canopied trees as tall as 40 meters, 130 feet, grow densely in the area.

Deep tropical moisture will cause rainfall rates to approach 2 to 3 inches per hour in spots, especially in parts of southern Nevada and Arizona.

Imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics.

Now, if we have evidence, which we now have, that wetlands, forests, unclear monsoon system, the rainforests, behave in this nonlinear way.

Wiens research also revealed that local extinction vary from region to region. Compared to regions with temperate climate, the probability of local extinction of species in tropical regions is doubled.

It lives throughout the tropics, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, into the Pacific.

It gets very humid here in the summer. In the winter, on the other hand, it gets very dry.

Salmon sharks go down to the tropics to pup and come into Monterey.

What good are they in that cobwebby old closet?

People dry out or air out their mattress stuffing on their roofs.

27. There is as yet limited experience on the use of satellite radar images in tropical regions.

In the United Republic of Tanzania, recurring fire hazards, whether natural or human made, have swept the vegetation off of various areas of the country except in the very wet rain forest.

All I can remember is that the climate was rather wet, but the fishing was quite good.

The European Union projects Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observations by Satellite (TREES) and FIRE provide data on deforestation and the presence of forest fires in tropical regions.

Maintain the radiosonde network, and expand it into areas with inadequate coverage, especially the tropics.

UN 1327 Delete wet, damp or contaminated with oil from the name in column (a2).

Upsurge happens frequently and the atmosphere is bustling in the venue.

That was the rubber cicle.

They've all weathered Georgia's oppressive humidity for the nearly eight hours as Brooks lead them on a pilgrimage to the grave sites of the Malcoms and Dorseys.

So inside it's cool and humid, which means the plants need less water to grow.

Saudi Arabia calculates the compensation requested for the 1,397 premature deaths on the basis of the rate of USD 3,972,307 per life lost.

Globally, the loss of forests has mainly occurred in tropical and sub tropical regions, caused by the logging of hardwoods, clearance of forests for agriculture and collection of firewood.

Yellow fever is an acute contagious disease caused by the yellow fever virus, and is spread through mosquito bites. It is prevalent in tropical regions in Africa and Latin America.

In the tropics, raindrops are not formed from ice crystals, which is the case in the temperate zones, you need the trees with unclear , chemicals that come out of the leaves of the trees that initiate the raindrops.

(iii) In Hong Kong, 1997 was the wettest year on record, with 3,340 mm of rainfall

And I thought that this richness belonged to tropical seas, and that the Mediterranean was a naturally poor sea.