je.st
news
Tag: watery
Charlestons floods illustrate the worlds watery future
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: But sea level rise and warm waters from El Nio are making king tides and other nuisance tidal flooding worse. Sea levels have risen by 8 inches around the globe since the start of the 20th century due to ocean warming and the melting of the world's land ice. The rate of rise is expected to increase and by the end of the 21st century, sea levels could be up to 39 inches higher if greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trajectory. Despite the seemingly small rise to-date, the impacts...
Tags: future
worlds
illustrate
floods
Study: Global warming worsening watery dead zones
2014-11-10 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global warming is likely playing a bigger role than previously thought in dead zones in oceans, lakes and rivers around the world and it's only going to get worse, according to a new study. Dead zones occur when fertilizer runoff clogs waterways with nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous. That leads to an explosion of microbes that consumes oxygen and leaves the water depleted of oxygen, harming marine life. Scientists have long known that warmer water increases this problem, but a new...
Tags: study
global
dead
warming
Oil company reports cleanup of soil done, focus on watery areas
2014-03-17 00:43:58| Chemicals - Topix.net
Almost one year after the Pegasus pipeline ruptured and spilled heavy crude into a Mayflower neighborhood, Exxon Mobil has recommended further efforts to remove the remaining oil from drainage ways and a cove of Lake Conway but said the company needs to do nothing more to clean up the soil and sediment in those areas.
Tags: company
areas
reports
focus
Egypts Generals Face a Watery Battle
2014-02-06 09:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Heavy reliance on water intensive crops, a major upstream dam project for the Nile basin, and rising groundwater levels pushing at pharaoh-era monuments will be pressing issues for the next Egyptian president -- whether military or civilian. As criticism continues over the military's heavy-handedness to quell protests, little attention is being given to the late January announcement by Egypt's minister of irrigation and water resources on the growing severity of the country's water shortage: share...
Tags: face
battle
generals
watery
Climate study predicts a watery future for New York, Boston and Miami
2013-07-29 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 1,700 American cities and towns including Boston, New York, and Miami are at greater risk from rising sea levels than previously feared, a new study has found. By 2100, the future of at least part of these 1,700 locations will be "locked in" by greenhouse gas emissions built up in the atmosphere, the analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday found. The survey does not specify a date by which these cities, or parts of them, would actually...
Tags: york
future
study
boston