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Rising Seas + Dams + Aquifer Pumping = Delta Blues
2014-03-28 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Gardiner Harris has a comprehensive feature in The Times today taking a close look at the impact of advancing seas and sinking landscapes on Bangladesh, with a related story taking a global look at sea-level rise from global warming. Therell be much more from The Times in the next few days as Justin Gillis reports from Yokohama, Japan, on the scheduled release on Monday of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global warming impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Whats...
While the seas rise, science waits in NC
2014-03-15 18:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Observer: House Bill 819, "An Act to Study and Modify Certain Coastal Management Policies," became law in August 2012. It gave the Coastal Resources Commission four years to develop the state's official prediction for how fast North Carolina sea levels will rise in future years. No state agency can adopt any "rule, policy or planning guideline that defines a rate of sea-level change for regulatory purposes" until the commission formally determines a sea-level rate of change, the law says. The commission...
Climate Study: Rising Seas Could Wipe Out Many Cultural Landmarks
2014-03-05 03:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: If current trends in global warming continue unmitigated, some of the world's most well-known and historically significant cultural landmarks -- including the Statue of Liberty in New York City, the Tower of London in the United Kingdom, and the archaeological sites of Pompeii in Italy -- could be destroyed by rising global sea levels over the next 2,000 years, according to new research. A new study examining the long-term effects of sea-level rise on the 720 spots around the world that have been...
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Report describes the unfathomable cost of inaction on rising seas
2014-02-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The world needs to invest tens of billions of dollars a year in beefing up shoreline defenses against rising oceans or it will face mind-boggling costs in the decades to come, according to new research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If nations don't build up dikes, levees and sea walls, harden existing infrastructure, and preserve natural sponges like wetlands and barrier islands--and if they also do nothing to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases that...
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Sea change Naval development in China Seas
2014-02-04 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas and an impetus to defend strategic access points have driven naval fleets in the region to invest in advanced vessels, notably submarines. While joint drills help improve communication and underst
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