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USGS sounds sea-level alarm for Pacific
Santa Cruz :: Bolivia | 1 month ago
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New computer modeling indicates low-lying Pacific Islands may be underwater sooner than expected, the U.S...Storlazzi's teams said at least twice as much land would be underwater in parts of the region when compared with data from the old research
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Sea level threatens village
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 1 month ago
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The village lawn has been swamped by seawater turning it into a breeding area for crabs. Village headman Pio Waqairatavo said villagers experienced the effects of rising sea level for the past five to six years. "It is an old problem and a challenge
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Canadian glaciers face 'big losses'
Nuuk :: Greenland | 2 months ago
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A new study suggests the region's ice fields could lose perhaps as much as a fifth of their volume. Such a melt would add 3.5cm to the height of the world's oceans. Only the ice of Greenland and Antarctica is expected to contribute more. The
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Critical Issues in America Series Continues Multidisciplinary Look at Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 4 months ago
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but what might it be communicating? That's the idea behind an upcoming symposium at UC Santa Barbara that examines new ways of showing the effects of climate change and sea level rise on coastal areas around
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VIDEO: Should we build cities at sea?
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 4 months ago
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32 ET As the world faces up to the threat of rising sea levels, could building new cities entirely out at sea offer an alternative way of living? That is the idea being tested in the Netherlands where huge swathes of land already lie below sea level.
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'King tides' reign over Bay Area shores
Redwood City :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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With the vaunted "king tides" swelling over shores around the Bay Area but appearing to cause little in terms of mayhem or flooding at their peak Thursday morning, a spokesman for Redwood City still planned to make a splash. "'The King Tides.' That's
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Residents urged to photograph king tides
Ballina :: Australia | 5 months ago
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Environmental organisation Green Cross hopes to use the event to draw attention to rising sea levels. Green Cross CEO Mara Bun is asking coastal residents to photograph their local king tides and upload them to help create a digital picture of future
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Can Earth Survive Without Scientist-Citizens?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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An arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) pup in the Pribilof Islands, St. Paul Island, off the coast of mainland Alaska in the Bering Sea. Juvenile mortality can reach 90% (from starvation and predation) during their first year when lemming abundance is low.
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Researchers finally estimate single figure for global sea level rises
Global warming has led to rise in sea levels as increased global temperatures have slowly melted away the polar ice caps. While this is commonly known, the exact amount by which sea levels have risen was not until recently, when a new
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Rising seas: New York City could be the new Atlantis in 50 years
After Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast just days before Election Day 2012, the media briefly became interested in climate change, which previously had been a strangely taboo subject. But after the winds, floods and
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