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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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Miami vise: Rising seas put the squeeze on a sun-drenched beach town
2013-12-13 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It`s a balmy, mid-November morning in Miami Beach, Fla., and Im sitting at one of the cafe tables in front of the local Whole Foods, sipping a cup of coffee, and watching the tide come up. Oh, you cant see the ocean from here. The tide is gurgling up through the storm drains along the street. It starts at about 8:00. A trickle of water from a nearby grate quickly becomes a stream which becomes a lake, spreading across the intersection of Alton Road and 10th Street. By 8:20, water pours off of...
Sandy A Warning Rising Seas Threaten Nuclear Plants
2013-10-21 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As Hurricane Sandy barreled ashore a year ago, the storm forced the shutdown of several Northeast coastal nuclear power reactors, including the Oyster Creek plant on the Jersey Shore, which took the brunt of Sandy's huge storm surge. Another reactor at Indian Point Energy Center north of New York City shutdown because of power grid disruptions, and a third reactor in southern New Jersey shutdown when Sandy knocked out four of its circulating water pumps. No nuclear power plant in Sandy's path...
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Seas may be rising faster than predicted: scientists
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The melting of Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is accelerating and may trigger faster sea level rise than predicted, according to leaked details of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Greenland's ice added six times more to sea levels in the decade through 2011 than in the prior 10 years, according to details of a draft 2200-page study by the UN agency, obtained by Bloomberg. The Antarctic experienced a five-fold increase, prompting the UN to raise its forecast...
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Rising seas are subject of study
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vineyard Gazette: Seas around the Vineyard are rising slightly faster than the global average and Island planners should prepare for significant sea level rise by the end of the century, a new climate change report has found. The Vineyard Conservation Society report examines the effects of climate change on the Martha's Vineyard and its surroundings. Sea level rise, health, ecology, emissions, severe weather and ocean acidification are all topics covered in the report. Loss of wetlands increases erosion issues...
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