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Rising Seas and More Intense Storms Likely to Cause Major Flooding Events
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 21st, 2015
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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Tree of Life With 2.3 Million Species Open for Changes
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 21st, 2015
Environment News Service: The relationships among living things, as they diverged from one another from the beginning of life on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, are shown for the first time in a comprehensive Tree of Life.
Tens of thousands of smaller trees of life have been published over the years for select branches of the tree, some containing more than 100,000 species, but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that attempts to encompass all forms of life.
This circular...