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Global warming affects Vietnam's women hardest
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 8 days ago
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This is because the devastation wrought by floods, storms and droughts means farmers have to toil longer in the fields to make enough money to survive. And as farm wives and daughters then have to return to the family home to prepare meals and organize...
Tags: Nguyen Thi Lanh, climate change, Vietnam, sea level, Hanoi, Global warming, Environment
Bayside residents unfazed by rising sea levels
Melbourne :: Australia | 9 days ago
Credibility Beach-front homes in bayside suburbs could be vulnerable to rising sea levels. Government to protect communities against any threat of inundation. Two government reports last week on the expected impact of climate change and sea level rises showed even...
Tags: climate change, sea level, rises sea, Australia, Melbourne, Global warming, Current sea level rise, Physical oceanography, Climate Change Act, Effects of global warming on Australia, Effects of global warming, Action on climate change, Environment
World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
Nuuk :: Greenland | 9 days ago
Credibility The world's largest ice sheet has started to melt along its coastal fringes, raising fears that global sea levels will rise faster than scientists expected. The East Antarctic ice sheet, which makes up three-quarters of the continent's 14,000 sq km, is...
Tags: West Antarctica, ice sheet, antarctic ice, East Antarctic, losing mass, ice loss, Greenland, Nuuk, Environment, Climate change, Oceanography, Glaciology, Antarctic ice sheet, Global warming, Current sea level rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ice sheets, Sea level, Greenland ice sheet, Interglacial, Effects of global warming, Antarctica, Eemian, Glaciers of Antarctica, Ice ages, Pleistocene
Rising sea levels threaten Caribbean region
Cartagena :: Colombia | 9 days ago
Credibility The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired Colombian naval officer German Alfonso. Just ask him about the time his neighborhood in this historic coastal city became an island. For five years, Alfonso, 74, has watched tides rise...
Tags: Cartagena, Colombian, Caribbean, climate change, Alfonso, sea level, Colombia, Oceanography, Physical oceanography, Cartagena Colombia, Cartagena Spain, Global warming, Effects of global warming, Environment
Climate of fear --
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility This October 25 file photo shows the Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility on the island of Hawaii...The station sits on the north flank of Mauna Loa volcano at an elevation of 3396 metres or 11,141 feet above sea level and has been studying...
Tags: climate change, Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, carbon dioxide, Julian Kenny, Prof Kenny, sea level, global warming, New York City, Climatologists, Environmental skepticism, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Richard Lindzen, Stephen Schneider, Carbon finance, Environment
Global warming to have heavy impact on Arab states
Beirut :: Lebanon | 10 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
Dutch build more dunes against rising seas!
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 10 days ago
Credibility 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
CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
Bangkok :: Thailand | 11 days ago
Credibility Thailand�s capital, dubbed the �City of Angels� and the �Venice of the East�, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine. The 240-year-old Thai capital, located on the...
Tags: Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, climate change, Danai Thaitakoo, rises sea, Thailand, Chao Phraya River, sea level, sea water, Bangkok, Flood, Current sea level rise, Gulf of Thailand, Disaster Accident, Environment
CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
Montevideo :: Uruguay | 11 days ago
Credibility Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierram�rica, which was...
Tags: climate change, Uruguay, Mario Bidegain, Tierram�rica, sea level, rica reports, IPCC, global warming, Latin America, Argentina, Montevideo, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, World Meteorological Organization, IPCC Third Assessment Report, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Criticism of IPCC AR4, Carbon finance, Environment
Food-climate theorist Brown to lecture at Colorado State
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 11 days ago
Credibility A pioneering environmentalist who has written or co-authored more than 50 books will speak at CSU tonight on whether food shortages could be caused by global warming. Lester Brown, who the Washington Post once called �one of the world�s most influential...
Tags: Lester Brown, sea level, food shortages, Bangladesh, Dhāka
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