Low-lying islands and other countries that are probable victims want compensation and technology transfers.
Environment Agency officials told residents in low-lying areas or near flood-prone areas to watch water levels.
Set against successful replanting of low-lying bushes, the dead and brittle trees are strangely beautiful.
Most of the store closings were along low-lying coastal areas prone to flooding, he said.
Such changes would be felt especially in low-lying, populous and poor countries such as Bangladesh.
Oakwood Beach, a low-lying oceanfront neighborhood, is one of those areas, the governor said.
Florida State University researcher Jeff Chanton said the area's low-lying terrain contributes to the misery.
He said the city had positioned rescue crews in low-lying areas where some flooding was anticipated.
But even with better data, monsoons are ill-understood once they leave the sea or low-lying land.
Among low-lying fields, where the sugarcane had been heavily watered, mist rose and cool air enveloped him.
Many people in north-west Norfolk were living in caravans, chalets and old railway carriages on low-lying ground.
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"Excessive runoff from this storm will cause flooding of small creeks and streams" and affect low-lying areas.
Water rescue units were on standby in low-lying areas prone to flooding, just in case, he said.
Low-lying coastal areas, including small nearshore islands, are among the most intensively used areas in all countries.
The low-lying parish near the mouth of the Mississippi was heavily damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Doggerland was a low-lying region of forests and wetlands that paleontologists believe connected Britain to the European mainland.
Bangladesh, low-lying and with isolated villages, is extremely susceptible to the storm surge Sidr is expected to bring.
Swamp: low-lying areas that are frequently flooded and support vegetation adapted to saturated soils e.g. mangrove swamps.
Or recognizing the harm to low-lying countries that rising oceans will inevitably cause to all of us.
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The flooding of overflow office districts in low-lying areas like Metairie could raise demand for high-and-dry high-rises downtown.
Wetlands: low-lying areas that are frequently flooded and which support vegetation adapted to saturated soils e.g. mangrove swamps.
While the spillways will divert water away from Louisiana cities, low-lying central parts of the state will be flooded.
But I think it's going to be very important to the low-lying regions.
Densely populated, low-lying areas, such as large river deltas and small islands, are at the greatest risk from flooding.
Winding through low-lying, lush grasslands, it serves as the main, and at times only, transportation route through the area.
This single work, made up of 53 low-lying pieces, was fashioned by a computer-directed machine extruding coils of cement.
Currently, there are about 3, 500 low-lying polders enclosed by dykes in the Netherlands.
As it crossed over land, it began to weaken but still brought torrential rainfall and floods to the low-lying areas.
It said around half the 140, 000 people living in the camps are in flood-prone rice fields and low-lying coastal areas.
Less serious flood watches, affecting nearly all of England and Wales, indicate that low-lying land and roads could become flooded.
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