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Scientist develops lab machine to study glacial sliding related to rising sea levels
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Nov 10, 2009 |
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Neal Iverson opened his laboratory's walk-in freezer and said the one-of-a-kind machine inside could help scientists understand how glaciers slide across their beds. And that could help researchers predict ...
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 ...
Lesson from the past for surviving climate change
May 27, 2009 |
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Research led by the University of Leicester suggests people today and in future generations should look to the past in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
Congress considers major global warming measure
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The last time Congress passed major environmental laws, acid rain was destroying lakes and forests, polluted rivers were on fire and smog was choking people in some cities.
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Report warns of rise in Mediterranean
Jan 20, 2008 |
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Both sea levels and temperatures in the Mediterranean have been rising since the 1970s, Spanish scientists report.
Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding along the south coast of England
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Oct 09, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at the University of Southampton has found that sea levels have been rising across the south coast of England over the past century, substantially increasing the risk of flooding ...
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.
Rising Sea Greater Danger to Louisiana than Sinking Land
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Nov 27, 2006 |
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Rising sea levels, fueled by melting polar ice caps, may well pose a greater threat to Louisiana than the sinking of its land, a new Tulane University study says.
Intensified ice sheet movements do not affect rising sea levels
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Jul 08, 2008 |
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Meltwater is rapidly increasing the tempo of glacial movements on the rim of the Greenland ice sheet. Over the long term, however, this process is interrupted as meltwater drains away via broad channels, as a result of which ...
'Noah's flood' kick-started European farming
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Nov 19, 2007 |
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The flood believed to be behind the Noah’s Ark myth kick-started European agriculture, according to new research by the Universities of Exeter and Wollongong, Australia.
Rising sea levels threaten nuke dump sites
Jun 29, 2005 |
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Britain's only nuclear waste dump could be underwater in 500 years if sea levels keep rising.
Washington state sea levels could rise considerably by end of century
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Jan 17, 2008 |
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Melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, combined with other effects of global climate change, are likely to raise sea levels in parts of Western Washington by the end of this century, though geological forces will offset ...
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.
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.
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