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Dutch build more dunes against rising seas!
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 3 days ago
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Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:05 IST Monster (Netherlands): On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.
Tags: Netherlands, sea level, rise sea, Tineke Huizinga, Amsterdam, North Sea, Sand, Current sea level rise, Sedimentology, Coastal geography, Dune, Environment
Bangkok Faces Grim Future as Waters Rise
Bangkok :: Thailand | 6 days ago
Credibility Built along the banks of the Chao Praya river as it nears the ocean, Bangkok has long been vulnerable to flooding. Poor urban planning and careless expansion have made the problem worse. And now, climate change eventually could help swamp the city. The...
Tags: Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, Bangkok Faces Grim Future, rise sea, Samith Dharmasaroja, sea level, Bhijit Rattakul, Danai Thaitakoo, Thailand, Bangkok, Gulf of Thailand, Levee, Current sea level rise, Hydrology, Water, Flood, Disaster Accident, Environment, Weather
80 percent of Aussies threatened by rising sea levels
Sydney :: Australia | 27 days ago
Credibility London, October 28 : A new report has said that Australians may have to leave coastal areas as rising sea levels threaten homes, with the situation seeming more worrisome as 80 percent of the country's population lives in coastal areas. According to...
Tags: rise sea, sea levels
National approach needed to prevent coastal 'nightmare'
Sydney :: Australia | 28 days ago
Credibility Parliament's Lower House Environment Committee has spent 18 months examining the effect the changing climate will have on coastal Australia. The report has found planning laws and insurance rules covering buildings in affected areas will need to change...
Tags: Australia�Australia, sea level, climate change, rise sea, Copenhagen, Mr Rudd, parliamentary report, prime minister
'Poor UK Flood Defence Puts Millions At Risk'
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility UK, Friday June 19, 2009 Darren Little, Midlands correspondent Five million people are living and working in flood risk areas according to a new report, and ever more public money is needed to protect them. Flooding is set to worsen in years to come,...
Tags: England, The Environment Agency, rise sea, sea levels, flooding defence, billion pounds, flooding risk
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
Schwarzenegger orders climate change strategy
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ordering state agencies to begin preparing for the projected impacts of global warming on California's economy, people and natural resources. More News The executive order issued Friday calls on officials to develop a statewide...
Tags: schwarzenegger, rise sea, sea levels, global warming
Rising sea levels to erode Sydney beaches: study
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Rising sea levels as a result of climate change will erode Sydney's iconic beaches by 2050, with some at risk of disappearing, and threaten beachfront homes and commercial properties, a new climate change study said. Sea levels along Sydney's coast are...
Tags: Sydney, sea level, rise sea, climate change
Major plan presented for sea defences
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Netherlands needs to spend between €1.2bn and €1.6bn a year to protect the country against rising sea levels, a top-level government commission said on Wednesday. And with the sea level set to rise up to 1.3 metres by 2100, there is also a danger...
Tags: sea level, Delta Commission, Netherlands, rise sea, global warming, Delta Committee
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