Global warming THREATENS animals, like polar bears and penguins, but now the Republic of Kiribati, a tropical nation composed of 32 atolls in the central Pacific Ocean, faces EXTINCTION due to rising sea-levels.
President Anote Tong said a projected half-meter rise in sea-level would submerge a SIGNIFICANT portion of inhabited coastline displacing citizens and causing salinization of nearby groundwater; the Harvard University Gazette reports.
Parts of the Mississippi Delta are sinking, and at least one prominent geoscientist places the blame on global warming.
Torbjörn Törnqvist, PhD, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Tulane University in New Orleans, says rising sea levels—the result of melting polar ice caps—pose a greater threat to Louisiana...
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Everyone thinks global warming is melting the artic—and it is—but tropical zones are also at risk.
As sea levels rise, natives of the Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea are seeing ocean water encroach on their homes and leave farmland too salty to grow crops.
Experts are calling them the first official...
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Puget Sound, home to already imperiled salmon, orcas and shorebirds, could be further jeopardized by rising sea levels brought on by global warming, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation. “Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Habitats in the Pacific Northwest” takes an unprecedented look at global warming’s profound...
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Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers have begun revising their forecasts.
“Everything has changed dramatically in the watershed we observed,” reports geography professor Scott Lamoureux, PhD, the leader of an International Polar Year project recently announced in Canada. “It’s something we’d envisioned...
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To help raise awareness about melting polar icecaps, Eden, a new British television channel, floated a 20-foot sculpture of a polar bear 7.5 miles up the river Thames, passing by the famous Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament; The Times Online reports.
Last month, I did my part to save...
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[...] temperatures raise sea levels, threatening islands in the Pacific, and climate change increases the spread of deadly diseases, such as avian flu, cholera, [...]