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Pakistan's coastal villagers retreat as seas gobble land
2015-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For fisherman Sammar Dablo, it was as if "the seawater stole our homes" when land erosion forced his village to relocate further inland on Pakistan's south coast. The people of the fan-shaped Indus Delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea, are among the poorest of the poor, mostly illiterate and living in wooden shacks on the mud flats. As seawater has washed into the delta, destroying thousands of hectares of fertile land and contaminating underground water channels, they survive...
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Torres Strait Islands under threat by rising seas
2015-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SAMANTHA DONOVAN: The rising seas of the Torres Strait could make some islands uninhabitable in a few decades. To prepare for projected rises of 50 to 100 centimetres over the next century, the Torres Strait Regional Authority has developed a climate change strategy. The authority's chairman, Joseph Elu, says a joint federal and State Government project rebuilding sea walls on six of the region's 14 inhabited islands is helping. But he told Nance Haxton a more comprehensive plan is needed to...
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Warming world's rising seas wash away some of South Florida's glitz
2014-12-20 14:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: It's just past sunset and the strip at South Beach, Miami, is pumping. It is the biggest weekend of the year in America's glitziest city. The Art Basel is on, an annual fine art festival that has been overwhelmed by the world's thrillingly wealthy and the Hollywood stars they like to play with dropping a few million on trinkets. The sorts of media that follow these events are beside themselves. Somewhere in this town, New York Magazine was later to report, Leonardo DiCaprio left a nightclub...
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Smart cruising: a look inside Royal Caribbeans Quantum of the Seas
2014-12-08 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Featuring online check-in, a robotic bar, RFID-based passenger services and one of the world's most advanced entertainment systems, Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas is billed as the first 'smart ship'. Cruise Critic UK editor Adam Coulter talks
Rising seas make living with global warming a UN priority
2014-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: From the rising seas in the Seychelles to the melting glaciers of Switzerland and Peru, governments are learning to cope with damaging changes to the climate that threaten food and water supplies, and even the very survival of the most low-lying nations. Having failed to prevent global warming from taking hold after two decades of discussions, more countries are focusing on how to live with its effects. The idea is rising to the top of the agenda at two weeks of United Nations climate talks that...
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