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Rising sea levels and stronger storms increase flood danger
Posted by Environmental News Network: ClickGreen Staff on September 26th, 2015
Environmental News Network: New research has found rising sea levels and stronger storms associated with climate change will produce longer-lasting, more intense periods of flooding.
Many studies predict that future sea-level rise along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts will increase flooding. Others suggest that the human-caused warming driving this rise will also boost the intensity and frequency of big coastal storms.
Up to now, though, these two hazards have been assessed mostly in isolation from each other. Now,...
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Comments Off on Rising sea levels and stronger storms increase flood dangerAntarctic ice study reveals accelerated sea level rise
Posted by Environmental News Network: ClickGreen Staff on March 30th, 2014
Environmental News Network: Six massive glaciers in West Antarctica are moving faster than they did 40 years ago, causing more ice to discharge into the ocean and global sea level to rise, according to new research. The amount of ice draining collectively from those half-dozen glaciers increased by 77 percent from 1973 to 2013, scientists report this month in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Pine Island Glacier, the most active of the studied glaciers, has accelerated by 75 percent...