Paleontologists pray for erosion.

It's the erosion of granite rock.

Ways of controlling, preventing soil erosion.

We've talked about the soil erosion.

Wave power is restricted to coastal areas.

And so you also begin to have ideological erosion.

Land completely destroyed, the erosion there, the land had dried.

Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.

The coastal ecosystem of British Columbia is rapidly declining.

All you can see is a little bit of erosion down here by the Sun, has these solar storms, and that's erosion by solar radiation.

This one has coastal access, which makes it more expensive.

An early coastal migration along the south coast of Asia,

Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities.

All you can see is a little bit of erosion down here.

The Sun has these solar storms and that's erosion by solar radiation.

They've been around a long time, very important to coastal communities.

Now, the system may gradually under pressure of climate change, erosion, biodiversity loss

If the trees on that hill are cut down, you'll see erosion pretty quickly.

Here in Monterey, a small coastal city in California with lots and lots of pedestrians.

Although at the same time we're losing an equivalent amount of existing arables to salinization and erosion.

Descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization which once carpeted the Caribbean coastal plain of Colombia, in the wake of the conquest, these people retreated into an isolated volcanic massif that soars above the Caribbean coastal plain.

With the erosion of the green belt separating animals from humans, we live in each other's viral environment.

So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.

I wound up studying sea birds to try to stay in the coastal habitats that I so loved.

And the Great Bear Rainforest is generally considered to be the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world.

Some climate models predict subtle changes, others forecast rising sea levels which could flood coastal areas around the world.

It runs down the rivers, and it feeds the plankton, the little microscopic plant cells in the coastal water.

And what's more, the evidence seems pretty conclusive that it has not been covered up by natural erosion or other forces.

So marine conservation and coastal protection has become a sink for government or philanthropic money, and this is not sustainable.

It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

There was no fishing, there was no pollution, there was no coastal development, and the reef is on a full bore recovery.

And so the spongy soil not only resists erosion, but sets up a microbial universe that gives rise to a plurality of other organisms.

And what we see is that for coastal tags, for those organisms that live near the shoreline, they're most diverse in the tropics.

They began to understand that as the upper levels of the hills were denuded of trees, so you've got this terrible soil erosion and mudslides.

I wanted to see what my home town of Long Beach was contributing to the problem, so on Coastal Clean Up Day in 2005

60 to 80 percent of the workforce in China is women in the coastal part of the country, whereas in India, it's all men.

And I'd like to switch now from this local, familiar, coastal environment to a much broader world of the baleen whales and the open ocean.

Wetland habitats serve essential functions in an ecosystem, including acting as water filters, providing flood and erosion control, and furnishing food and homes for fish and wildlife.

Climate change, ocean acidification, dissolved oxygen, carbon cycle, coastal upwelling, fishing dynamics the full spectrum of earth science and ocean science simultaneously in the same volume.

The color represents the concentration of the tracer, relative to the initial concentration in the coastal area off Fukushima at the end of the injection period.

In other words, the unorthodox tendencies towards own life, which threaten the natural erosion of the family unit, will no longer have the biological support of the organism.

Tonight at 8 p.m., in a coastal town, the heir to ShinHwa Group, Goo JunPyo, was... ...was the victim of an assault and... ...has sent shock throughout.

And dead zones will get bigger and bigger and they'll start to merge, and we can imagine something like the dead zonification of the global, coastal ocean.

AII right, I'll be right back. We'll do nothing together. I know most of these Mexican coastal towns if you'd Like some company and a genial guide.

Second, the governance is not right because most coastal communities around the world don't have the authority to monitor the resources to create the reserve and enforce it.