Sea level rise News
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Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have made precise, detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years.
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ESA, NASA, the European Commission, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and NOAA have renamed the upcoming Sentinel-6A satellite after Earth scientist Dr. Michael H. Freilich.
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The tropical Maldives may lose entire islands unless it can quickly access cheap financing to fight the impact of climate change, its foreign minister said.
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An international team of scientists is ready to lower a robotic submarine into a dark, water-filled cavern in Antarctica, to try to find out why one of the continent's largest glaciers is melting so fast.
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The U.S. Congress has ordered an investigation into the so-called “Runit Dome,” a concrete dome containing contaminated radioactive debris left over from nuclear weapons tests.
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Venice -
Most of us already know that Venice is sinking - However, the city has now become the poster child of the problems facing all coastal cities. "Acqua alta" conditions, the term locals use for when the water gets high, has become all too frequent.
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There are places on Earth that are so cold that water is frozen solid. These areas of snow or ice, which are subject to temperatures below 32°F for at least part of the year, compose the cryosphere.
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A NASA-funded study has found that Antarctica faces a tipping point where glacial melting will accelerate and become irreversible even if global heating eases.
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Melbourne -
A report from an Australian think tank has predicted massive climate shifts will effectively crash “civilisation” (This mess is a civilisation?) by 2050. That prediction may be a bit underdone, in several ways
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Salisbury -
Coastal properties have long been in high demand, offering stunning views of the ocean at a premium price tag. With rising sea levels and increased coastal flooding, how concerned should property owners be about property values?
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Greenland's ice is melting faster than scientists previously thought - and this will likely lead to faster sea level rise -thanks to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth's atmosphere, a new study has found.
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Scientists are meeting in the Azores this week to share findings on how satellites have revealed changes in the height of the sea, ice, inland bodies of water and more. Much of the meeting's focus will be on sea level rise.
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Military leaders in South Carolina are preparing for rising sea levels while partisans dispute whether it's the effect of global warming. But that's because they are seeing the effects of climate change.
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Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study.
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In 80 years the rising seas’ cost could be $14 trillion a year globally, with the oceans possibly nearing two meters (6.5 feet) above their present levels, according to new research.
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Sea level rise in the lower 48 states, primarily driven by climate change, is projected to worsen tidal flooding, putting as many as 311,000 coastal homes at risk of chronic flooding within the next 30 years.
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The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.
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People living along the U.S coast may see flooded sidewalks and streets more frequently this year due, in part, to El Nino conditions that are predicted to develop later this year, and from long-term sea level rise trends.
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A new study has revealed a previously undocumented process where melting glacial ice sheets change the ocean in a way that further accelerates the rate of ice melt and sea level rise.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized its staff to issue Combined Licenses for Florida Power and Light’s Turkey Point site in Florida. FPL now has permission to build and operate two AP1000 reactors at the site, about 25 miles south of Miami.
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Researchers are launching new web-based 'report cards' to monitor and forecast changes in sea level at 32 localities along the U.S. coastline from Maine to Alaska. The report cards will be updated each year, with projections out to the year 2050.
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San Francisco -
Current global projection maps depicting sea level rise are what city managers and planners depend on for future development, however, coastal subsidence has very seldom been considered in making these projections. The Bay Area is a good example.
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It has become increasingly common to see cliff-sized chunks of glacial ice falling into the Southern Ocean, suggestive of a warming climate. But scientists don't know what's going on beneath Antarctica's ice sheets., so they are preparing to find out.
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With rising sea levels being one of the most noticeable results of climate change, being able to locate and pinpoint which glaciers and ice sheets are contributing to local sea level rises will be very helpful in how we prepare for the future.
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Off the coast of Alabama, in the Gulf of Mexico, lies a relic from our planet's past. Submerged under 60 feet of water is an ancient cypress forest, about 60,000 years-old, preserved in place — the trees still rooted in the dirt from millennia ago.
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Due to climate change, glaciers in Greenland are melting faster than previously thought. A new video released today by NASA shows how the agency is keeping track of the magnitude of the changes occurring in the Arctic, now being measured in feet per day.
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After a story about disappearing Tangier Island aired on television June 9, President Trump made it a point to telephone the island's mayor, assuring him that sea level rise was nothing to worry about. Hmm, does Trump know something we don't know?
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UN negotiators are meeting in Bonn, Germany this week to discuss and work out a plan to implement the Climate-Rescue Paris Agreement. The stakes have never been higher - Yet one important member nation is threatening to pull out of the agreement.
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For the first time ever, the network of streams, ponds, and lakes across Antarctica's surface have been mapped, and the extent of the water flow is astounding and worrying to scientists.
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Sacramento -
Rising ocean levels are impacting low-lying coastal regions around the world, and along the West Coast of the United States this winter, we have seen the results of sea-level rise in the extreme high tides and flooding that hit California.
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Sea level rise Image
Satellite data 1993-2018 (November) Data source: Satellite sea level observations. NASA
Median (a), (c) and (e) and 95th percentile sea-level projections (b), (d) and (f) for 1. 5 °C and 2 °C temperature pathways and RCP8.5_J14 (Jackson and Jevrejeva 2016) in 2100. Black contour represents global average estimates. S Jevrejeva Et. Al.
Aerial view of Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island S.C., Feb. 5, 2015. Lance Cpl. Allison Lotz USMC
The gradient of sea level rise near New York City with respect to ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Red indicates a larger impact on NYC local sea level rise. NASA/JPL
Screen-grab shows how close the threatening ocean is from homes on Tangier Island, and this image was taken on a fair-weather day. AFP
This Annapolis statue, commemorating Roots author Alex Haley and his central
character Kunta Kinte, is shown here during Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Isabel’s
storm surge also caused disastrous flooding in the historic City Dock area, damaging
dozens of buildings. Union of Concerned Scientists
A simulation by VESL of Columbia Glacier, Alaska. NASA/JLP-Caltech
This forward model captures the response to thickness changes in all of the main glaciated areas of the world (including, among others, Alaskan and Canadian Arctic Glaciers, Himalayan Glaciers, Patagonia Glaciers, and the Greenland and Antarctica Ice Sheets), hence representing a truly global “ice” fingerprint. NASA/JPL
Since 2005, New Hampshire has experienced an increase in the frequency and severity of flooding: Heavy rains, high rivers, disaster spending and news coverage of flooding all set new records during this decade. University of New Hampshire
Downtown Salisbury Massachusetts in 2004. Decumanus at English Wikipedia
Probability density functions for global sea level and its components in 2100 for warming of 1.5 °C, 2 °C and RCP8.5_J14. Note that the land based water component is scenario independent. S Jevrejeva Et. Al.
A researcher uses heavy duty cutting equipment to take samples from boulders left behind at the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica from the last time it underwent rapid retreat and thinning 8000 years ago Florian Wobbe, British Antarctic Survey
Foster City, along with Treasure Island and the San Francisco International Airport is sinking at a rate of 10 milimeters a year. Pi.1415926535 on Wikimedia Commons
Chrysler Museum of Art. Photo taken: Dec. 20, 2006. Kurpfalzbilder
North Carolina Hiway 12 is a scenic hiway running through the Outer Banks of North Carolina. FWS
VIMS Report Card for Norfolk, Virginia VIMS Report Card
From the photo, you can see that Tangier Island is almost level with the sea. Eli Christman of Richmond, Va.
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