パプアニューギニア近くのカーテレット諸島では、海水が家のまわりにうち寄せているので、すでに家を離れなければならなくなった人たちがいる。の英語

In the Carteret Islands, near Papua New Guinea, some people have already had to leave their homes because the seawater is washing around their houses.

In the Carteret Islands, near Papua New Guinea, some people have already had to leave their homes because the sea water is washing around their houses.

a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay

In New Orleans, Louisiana, levees on the nearby lake and canals gave way in a few places and 80 percent of the city was flooded.

a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay

the narrowest part of southern Mexico is an isthmus between the Bay of Campeche on the north coast and the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the south coast

a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal

a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay

any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages

the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia

the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama

In Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, Dharahara, a 62-meter-tall tower built in the 19th century, collapsed and many tourists were killed.

an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west

a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia

In 2009, the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship, sails across the Indian Ocean with more than 5,000 tons of relief supplies for Kenya.

On one hand, water shortages are expected this summer because of lower rainfall, but on the other hand, large rainstorms are 3.5 times more likely locally than last year.

a river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean

The present governor, Gray Davis of the Democratic Party, is losing his popularity because of California's budget deficit and bad employment situation.

Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett), an American couple, are traveling in Morocco.

a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan

a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic

It's on the coast about 13 kilometers to the north of its more famous neighbor, Dover.

a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont

In 2004, Wangari Maathai, the assistant minister for environment and natural resources of Kenya, became the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

a river in the southeastern United States that flows northward from North Carolina to West Virginia where it empties into the Kanawha River

a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River

the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado