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Commonwealth in danger --
Rita :: Marshall Islands | 5 days ago
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Port of Spain there is not much hope among its member states that it will achieve anything other than declarations without the means to implement them. Indeed, even more worrying, there is a mood in some of the developed Commonwealth countries that the...
Tags: Commonwealth Summit, Commonwealth Heads, small states, commonwealth countries, IMF, climate change, level rise, Marshall Islands, Rita, Commonwealth of Nations, Political history of Canada, International Monetary Fund, Dominica, Caribbean Community, Environment, Liberal democracies, Republics, International organizations
Global warming to have heavy impact on Arab states
Beirut :: Lebanon | 7 days ago
Credibility Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned Thursday ahead of next month's Copenhagen environment summit. Some of the most feared effects include depletion of agricultural land, spread...
Tags: United Arab Emirates, Copenhagen, level rise, sea level, Lebanon, Beirut, North Africa, Fertile Crescent, Israel, Arab World, Western Asia, Arab League member states, Levant, Environment
U.S.: Public More Complacent About Climate Change
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Less than two months before a key international conference on curbing climate change, a major U.S. poll has found a sharp drop in public concern about global warming. According to the survey by the Pew Research Centre for the People & the Press, 65 percent...
Tags: U.S, global warming, solid evidence, Earth, taking place, human activity, level rise, sea level, Washington
Sea rise from ice melt 'overestimated'
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
Credibility West Antarctic ice sheet will have devastating impacts on global sea levels, a study has found the anticipated impact has been seriously overestimated. Using new measures of the ice sheet's geometry, British and Dutch researchers predict its collapse...
Tags: sea level, ice sheets, West Antarctica, antarctic ice, global sea, New York Times, Western Antarctic, level rise, sheets melting, global warming
San Francisco Bay vulnerable to rising waters
Nuuk :: Greenland | 8 months ago
Credibility The economic threat to the state's 1,000 miles of coastline between Oregon and Mexico is of concern, but is dwarfed by the threat to the bay's shoreline, where a history of filling wetlands and building on them could be reversed by a rising sea. "No one...
Tags: sea level, climate change, Greenland, global warming, rise sea, California, ice melt, ice sheet, level rise
Arctic boulders confirm that glaciers are thinning
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Analysis of the boulders has also enabled the scientists to start constructing a long-term picture of glacier behaviour in the region. One task was to put recent ice sheet changes into a historical context, and determine if these are part of a
Tags: West Antarctic, sea level, level rise
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