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When we think of rising sea levels, we think of global climate change and melting ice caps. Yet there’s a disparity in the raw data. During the second half of the last century, global sea levels rose 1.8 millimeters per year, according to tide gauges.
May 22, 2012 at 23:52 | Source: Popular Science
ARCATA -- In celebration of “Wetlands Month,” the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center will present a talk at 7 p.m. Wednesday by Aldaron Laird, who has walked or kayaked all 102 miles of Humboldt Bay's shoreline and its sloughs. The talk is ...
May 28, 2012 at 08:58 | Source: Eureka Times-Standard
Tropical Storm Irene hammered the houses in the low-lying Cosey Beach area of East Haven last August. Now, according to town officials, most of those homes are being rebuilt. This is understandable. But is it wise? Residents of Cosey Beach ...
May 25, 2012 at 23:34 | Source: Hartford Courant
Humanity's unquenchable thirst for fresh water is driving up sea levels even faster than melting glaciers, according to new research. The massive impact of the global population's growing need for water on rising sea levels is revealed in a ...
May 20, 2012 at 17:28 | Source: The Guardian
The existence of low-lying nations such as Kiribati is indeed threatened by rising sea levels — "there is no doubt whatsoever," said researcher Simon Donner, a climate scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver who has done ...
May 15, 2012 at 17:05 | Source: msnbc.com
Science as a contact sport; inside the battle to save Earth's climate by Stephen Schneider is an illuminating book by a world renowned climate scientist and professor at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. In 2007, Schneider ...
May 17, 2012 at 13:14 | Source: The Daily Star
“So great is the potential risk from rising sea levels and construction on the floodplain to accommodate a rising population, the UK’s flood liability could come to dominate the global reinsurance market. In practice, that would mean many in ...
May 28, 2012 at 08:43 | Source: The Independent Blogs
Is global warming making sea levels rise? Can the ocean's waters surge to dangerous, even catastophic levels? Dr. Maureen Raymo, Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, will discuss the potential effects of ...
May 16, 2012 at 23:38 | Source: Greenwich Time
Rather than a uniform rise in sea level, skeptics pointed to records that showed levels rising in some areas and dropping in others as evidence that man-made climate change was a myth. But that variability is exactly what researchers expect to see ...
May 18, 2012 at 14:53 | Source: EurekAlert
And for centuries, the Dutch have built different types of barriers to hold back rising water and allow for development. But as sea levels continue to rise, instead of trying to fight the water, Dutch architects and urban planners are taking a new approach ...
May 29, 2012 at 21:35 | Source: NewsHour