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Rising Seas and More Intense Storms Likely to Cause Major Flooding Events
2015-09-21 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Rising seas and increasingly frequent and intense storms along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts could interact to produce alarming spikes in the extent and duration of floods, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. The study projects that coastal flooding could possibly shoot up several hundred-fold by 2100, from the Northeast to Texas. Even the study's most conservative calculations, based on greatly reduced greenhouse gas emissions over the next 85 years, suggest a 4- to 75-fold...
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Climate change brought record temps, rising seas in 2014
2015-07-16 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS News: If the latest report from America's top weather experts is an indication, it's becoming really hard to deny global warming. Temperatures last year across the world reached record highs, according to the "State of the Climate in 2014" report from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Weather and Climate. Sea levels continued to rise and glaciers kept shrinking while record concentrations of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide were recorded in...
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Researchers: Rising seas threaten rare Everglades plants
2015-03-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Rising sea levels and invasive species increasingly threaten rare plants in Everglades National Park that have not yet recovered from damage caused by orchid collectors long ago or attempts to drain the swamps, according to a 10-year survey released Monday. The report by the Institute for Regional Conservation concludes that the unique plants native to South Florida may be lost despite multibillion-dollar efforts to restore the wetlands. Other studies of the Everglades` natural resources have reached...
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Obama Orders Rising Seas Built In to Building Standards
2015-01-31 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Flood risk from sea level rise brought about by climate change will have to be factored into the building standards of any new and rebuilt federally funded construction project, including those built by local governments receiving federal money, according to an executive order President Obama issued Friday. The order requires projects funded by the government to adopt tighter construction standards so that scientific projections for how climate change could affect flooding in a given area can...
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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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