To the cliffs.

Wave power is restricted to coastal areas.

Those white cliffs are a dense Cambrian limestone.

like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth meaning mountains, cliffs.

Waves that crack the cliffs shall not be wrong

Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.

The coastal ecosystem of British Columbia is rapidly declining.

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.

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

I don't want him killed. I know he's going to love cliffs.

Now, at the base of the high cliffs there's this natural cave.

A storm was rising and the boat was drifting towards the cliffs.

North rode donkeys, scaled cliffs, and crossed swamps to reach the plants she wanted.

We got the cliffs to the north, mountains to the east and the west.

Now, we will block the Persian coastal assault, by rebuilding the great Phocian wall.

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

This discovery changed everything about our sense of these cliffs and what to do with them.

Now, the island is basically triangular. You got cliffs and breakers, harbor and town, and beach.

Start with borders. If you look on the left side of the cliffs here, that's national park.

I found the doctor, in a cave out by the cliffs. But you'll never get to her.

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.

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.

If you go up on top of those cliffs, that's some of the Long Now land in those trees.

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.

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

Landscape ecology concerns itself with how the stream and the meadow and the forest and the cliffs make habitats for plants and animals.

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

The base of those cliffs are covered in poison ivy, live oak, sumac and a thousand plants with thorns as big as my dick.

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

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.

Now, I happened to be on the radio with Alexander when he got to this point at the base of the cliffs, and he said, quote,

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.

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.

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.

And you can carry right on up through meadows and steepening forest to the high base of the cliffs at 10,500 feet, where there's a bit of a problem.

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.