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New Zealand Warned of Higher Storm Surges, King Tides as Sea Levels Rise
2014-11-27 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: New Zealand's infrastructure on low-lying areas and coastal properties are under threat from sea level rises as much as 30 centimetres. A new environment report has warned that rising sea levels due to global warming will have a significant impact to the people of New Zealand. A storm cloud passes over bathers who prepare to leave Sydney's Manly Beach during an afternoon storm March 5, 2014. The storm, which generated little rain but high gusts of wind, was blown out to sea. In a report released...
Boston Kicks Off Design Competition To Prepare for Rising Tides
2014-11-06 00:56:37| ENR.com: Headline News
In addition to the design competition, Mayor Walsh announces a regional climate-change summit for next spring
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Dutch unveil big plan to fight rising tides
2014-09-17 02:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Netherlands on Tuesday unveiled a multi-billion-euro, multi-decade plan to counter the biggest environmental threat to the low-lying European nation: surging seawater caused by global climate change. The project, expected to span 30 years and cost 20 billion euros ($25 billion), will see new sea barriers built and existing dykes strengthened in the country, much of which lies below sea-level. Environmental Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen, presenting the plan to parliament, called it...
Beseiged by rising tides of climate change, Kiribati buys land in Fiji
2014-07-01 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The people of Kiribati, a group of islands in the Pacific ocean particularly exposed to climate change, now own a possible refuge elsewhere. President Anote Tong has recently finalised the purchase of 20 sq km on Vanua Levu, one of the Fiji islands, about 2,000km away. The Church of England has sold a stretch of land mainly covered by dense forest for $8.77m. "We would hope not to put everyone on [this] one piece of land, but if it became absolutely necessary, yes, we could do it," Tong told the...
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Sinking islands battle tides of climate change
2014-03-28 08:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Small island nations around the world are already feeling the impact of rising sea levels. And probably none more so than the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, which is considered the lowest-elevation country on the planet. The average elevation of its 26 atolls is just 1.5 meters (5 feet) above sea level - so it wouldn't take much for the country to be rendered completely uninhabitable.
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