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Category: Sea Level Rise

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  • Sea Level Rise
  • United Kingdom

Fixing London’s Housing Crisis Means More Risk of Deadly Floods

On any other day, White Post Lane in London’s Hackney Wick neighborhood crawls with people searching for artisan coffee and taking selfies against the graffiti-covered walls. Outside a newly renovated Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Mar 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Easter Island at Risk From Rising Seas, Extreme Weather

Tourists on Easter Island in December 2017. Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a 14-mile-long triangle of land that sits 2,300 miles west of Chile, making it one Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Mar 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

U.S. Sea Levels to Rise at a Faster Pace Than in Past 100 Years

A flooded street in Miami Beach in September 2015, brought on by seasonal high tides and what many see as rising sea levels driven by climate change. Oceans along the Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Mar 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change

 Thwaites is so wide, it goes to the horizon in all directions Scientists are warning of dramatic changes at one of the biggest glaciers in Antarctica, potentially within the next Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

Biden’s Climate Plan Means Tough Choices: Which Homes Get Saved?

President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan represents an enormous effort to protect Americans from climate change, but it sidesteps one of the most immediate and wrenching dilemmas: Deciding not just Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Sea level is rising at fastest rate in 2,000 years, and the quickest in N.J., Rutgers study says

Climate change is causing glaciers to melt faster, raising sea levels along the Atlantic coast at a rate not seen for 2,000 years, according to a new study led by Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Sea Level Rise

Chuck Schumer Stalls Climate Overhaul of Flood Insurance Program

One of the federal government’s main efforts to push Americans to prepare for climate threats is in question after the Senate majority leader’s office objected to a plan to adjust Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

The Greenland ice sheet may be more vulnerable than we knew to global warming, new study shows – The Washington Post

At first, Andrew Christ was ecstatic. In soil taken from the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, he’d discovered the remains of ancient plants. Only one other team of researchers Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Tiny Town, Big Decision: What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea?

Bobby Outten, a county manager in the Outer Banks, delivered two pieces of bad news at a recent public meeting. Avon, a town with a few hundred full-time residents, desperately Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

To Fight Flooding, This City Plans to Renovate—and Retreat

Douglas Beaver, Chief Resilience Officer in Norfolk, Va. in the historic neighborhood of Chersterfield Heights. When it rains in Norfolk, Va., the residents of the Chesterfield Heights and Grandy Village Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Florida Republicans are ready to stop rising seas — just not climate change

Before it was pumped, leveed, and paved, south Florida looked like a network of spongy wetlands. Over the course of about a century, those damp lowlands were transformed into a Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

Miami Says It Can Adapt to Rising Seas. Not Everyone Is Convinced.

Officials in Miami-Dade County, where climate models predict two feet or more of sea-level rise by 2060, have released an upbeat strategy for living with more water, one that focused on elevating Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Sea Levels Are Rising Faster Than Most Pessimistic Forecasts

A May 20 Sentinel-2 satellite image shows the Dutch province of Zeeland, including the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s biggest seaport in the upper right. Much of the region lies below Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Satellites Are Slowly Getting Better at Measuring Sea-Level Rise

As the planet warms, the increase in sea levels threatens to uproot more than a third of the world’s population. Understanding exactly how fast and by how much they’re rising Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

SpaceX Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Tracks Rising Seas, Climate Damage –

A new payload that Elon Musk’s SpaceX will deliver into orbit next month will play a pivotal role in measuring sea level increases, potentially helping to spare economies from billions of euros in Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Sea Level Rise

Greenland ice sheet on course to lose ice at fastest rate in 12,000 years, study finds

Melt water sits on the Greenland ice sheet. (Thomas R. Chudley/University of Cambridge) The Greenland ice sheet is on track to lose mass at about four times the fastest rate Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Coastal flooding could hit nearly 20% of global GDP as climate change accelerates storms, sea level rise

A general view shows people walking across the flooded St. Mark’s Square, by St. Mark’s Basilica on November 15, 2019 in Venice, two days after the city suffered its highest Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Rising Seas Could Menace Millions Beyond Shorelines, Study Finds

As global warming pushes up ocean levels around the world, scientists have long warned that many low-lying coastal areas will become permanently submerged. But a new study published Thursday finds that much Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

Hundreds of Toxic Superfund Sites Imperiled by Sea-Level Rise, Study Warns

A new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists concludes that more than 800 hazardous Superfund sites near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of flooding in the Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Virginia’s coast saw two to five times more nuisance floods in 2019 than the national average

Construction of the Fog Point Living Shoreline Breakwater on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Living shorelines, an element of green infrastructure, control erosion and can help act as a Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Rising Seas Mean More Flooding Will Be Coming to New York City

There’s going to be a lot more flooding in New York this year as climate change causes sea levels to continue to rise. The Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan, Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding

Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water further into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday. The increase in Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say

Sea-level rise is faster than previously believed and could exceed 1 metre by the end of the century unless global emissions are reduced, according to a survey of more than Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

A Satellite Lets Scientists See Antarctica’s Melting Like Never Before

Using their elevation data, the researchers found that Greenland is losing about 200 billion tons of mass each year on average. That’s enough to raise sea levels by about eight Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

Climate change is forcing Norfolk, Va., and other waterfront communities to plan their retreat from the coasts

On Richmond Crescent in Norfolk, Va., more than a dozen homes rise in varying heights, forming a streetscape bar graph tracing the past decade’s increasing threat of flooding from an Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Europe
  • Sea Level Rise

Europe Is Shrinking as the Sea Encroaches on Its Coastline – Bloomberg

At the Trump Doonbeg golf course on Ireland’s west coast, the ocean has been inching closer to a private bar overlooking the 18th hole. Since the links opened in 2002, Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Mar 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Myanmar
  • Sea Level Rise

Rising sea levels put Myanmar’s villages on frontline of climate change

Three years ago, the villagers watched as the Sittaung River on Myanmar’s southeast coast crept closer to them, swollen by powerful tidal surges from the Gulf of Mottama that eroded Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

After Trump Mocks a Sea Wall in New York, Plan Is Abruptly Shelved

The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

To Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast, Build a Mini Mississippi Near Boston

We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the actual Mississippi River is a half-continent away. We were in fact Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Sea Level Rise

First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’

Taking advantage of rare ice-free waters in West Antarctica last February, scientists got their first look underneath Thwaites Glacier, a massive and increasingly unstable formation perched at the edge of Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Boston prepares for rising seas from climate change

Famous for its role in America’s war for independence, this city is now fighting the rising seas. Boston is raising streets, building berms and even requiring that new high-rise condominium developments Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North Sea

One dam would stretch some 300 miles from the coast of Scotland to Norway. The other, roughly 100 miles, would rise in the waters between northern France and Southeastern England. Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas

What do you do when the sea comes for your home, your school, your church? You could try to hold back the water. Or you could raise your house. Or you Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

Sea level rise accelerating along US coastline, scientists warn

The pace of sea level rise accelerated at nearly all measurement stations along the US coastline in 2019, with scientists warning some of the bleakest scenarios for inundation and flooding Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

Virginia Beach considers a program to buy out or elevate homes in danger of flooding

To protect more homes from future flooding and to lower flood insurance rates, Virginia Beach is considering funding a local program to buy out or elevate at-risk properties throughout the Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Florida Keys Deliver a Hard Message: As Seas Rise, Some Places Can’t Be Saved

Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long feared, but few have been willing to admit: As seas rise and flooding gets worse, not everyone Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • USA

82 Days Underwater: The Tide Is High, but They’re Holding On

Before he leaves for work, Rick Darden, an accountant with his own firm, stuffs a long-sleeved shirt, slacks and dress shoes in a backpack. Then he heads out, clad in Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Rising seas are a much bigger danger than experts thought

HERE’S ANOTHER piece of evidence that climate change might be worse than scientists previously predicted. The seas are rising, and will continue to rise, because hotter temperatures melt land-based ice Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Scientists triple their estimates of the number of people threatened by rising seas

A man wades along a flooded street as Hurricane Irma hits the Miami area Sept. 10, 2017. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Rising seas will be much worse and more expensive Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows

Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities. The Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise
  • United Kingdom

Climate change increases flooding risk to homes, study shows

The number of households in Britain at risk of flooding will more than double by 2050 to more than 1.9m owing to the effects of climate change, research from data Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

As waters rise, so do concerns for sports teams along coast

One franchise’s challenge: Amid rising sea levels, build a stadium to last 100 years. A number of American pro sports venues could be vulnerable to rising waters brought on by Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica

The EU’s Sentinel-1 satellite system captured these before and after images The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years. The calved Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

The World’s Oceans Are in Danger, Major Climate Change Report Warns

Earth’s oceans are under severe strain from climate change, a major new United Nations report warns, threatening everything from the ability to harvest seafood to the well-being of hundreds of Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Sep 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?

As disaster costs keep rising nationwide, a troubling new debate has become urgent: If there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the effects of human-caused global warming, Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Sea-level rise could be even worse than we’ve been led to expect

ONE THING scientists are sure will happen as the world warms is that the seas will rise, putting millions of people at risk of land erosion, flooding and permanent displacement. Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Sea Level Rise

Fast-Melting Greenland Glacier Starts Growing Again In Massive U-Turn

A large and fast-melting glacier in Greenland is growing again, according to a new NASA study. The Jakobshavn (YA-cob-shawv-en) glacier on Greenland’s west coast had reportedly been retreating by around Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Along the Coasts, Communities Gird for Rising Seas

State officials along the East and Gulf Coasts are pushing for projects worth billions of dollars to protect populous coastal regions from rising oceans and extreme weather, write the Journal’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Sea Level Rise

Satellites saw rapid Greenland ice loss

The south of Greenland viewed from the International Space Station Greenland has gone through an “unprecedented” period of ice loss within the last two decades. The Grace satellites revealed a Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Jan 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Sea Level Rise

Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say

Greenland’s enormous ice sheet is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may have reached a “tipping point,” and could become a major factor in sea-level rise around the Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Jan 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple

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