News tagged with global sea levels
Ice Sheets Can Retreat 'In a Geologic Instant,' Study of Prehistoric Glacier Shows
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Jun 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists ...
Ice Bridge Supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ice bridge connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula to Charcot Island has disintegrated. The event continues a series of breakups that began in March 2008 on the ice ...
Danube delta holds answers to 'Noah's flood' debate (Video)
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? A geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...
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Experts mull future of Thames Barrier
Mar 24, 2008 |
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Sea levels are rising much faster than when the Thames Barrier was designed, and British officials are looking ahead to new consider flood defenses.
Mercury levels in Arctic seals may be linked to global warming
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Researchers in Canada are reporting for the first time that high mercury levels in certain Arctic seals appear to be linked to vanishing sea ice caused by global warming. Their study, a new insight into the ...
Close relationship between past warming and sea-level rise
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, along with colleagues from Tuebingen and Bristol have reconstructed sea-level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years. Comparison of this record with data on ...
Is the Dead Sea dying?
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues from the University ...
Sea Level Rise Due to Global Warming Poses Threat to New York City
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is expected to cause the sea level along the northeastern U.S. coast to rise almost twice as fast as global sea levels during this century, putting New York City at greater ...
Global warming could flood Florida coasts
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Scientists studying the consequences of global warming in south Florida say rising sea levels could flood coastal cities and damage fresh water supplies.
Catastrophic sea levels 'distinct possibility' this century: study
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Apr 15, 2009 |
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A breakthrough study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows that oceans rose some three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice sheets.
Global warming threatens more than just coral
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Rising sea levels from global warming will threaten the livelihoods and homes of more than 200,000 people who live on coral atolls in coming generations.
Antarctic ice loss vaster, faster than thought: study
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Nov 22, 2009 |
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The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study.
Melting threat from West Antarctic Ice Sheet less than previously believed
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May 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While a total or partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as a result of warming would not raise global sea levels as high as some predict, levels on the U.S. seaboards would rise 25 percent more ...
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