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Sea Level, Risk Of Flooding Rising Rapidly In Mid-Atlantic Wunderground.com (blog) The study warns that regional planners will need to factor local rates of sea level rise when making decisions on building any long-lasting infrastructure, from…

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Genetic diversity in caribou will greatly affect their ability to survive climate change.

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Research team says many more people will go short of water as the world warms, but who and where, remains uncertain.

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10:04 a.m., Dec. 16, 2013–Mangroves, the dense forests found along tropical and subtropical coastlines, have some specialized trees that can take in air through their roots at low tide and excrete salt right out of their leaves.

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Sea Ice Loss Could Alter Arctic Air Chemistry Wunderground.com (blog) Over the past 30 years, the Arctic has warmed more than any other place on the planet, and that warming and the resulting melt of the region’s sea ice presents a number of…

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Haven’t had time to read all 2000+ pages of the 2013 IPCC report? Neither have I! But don’t worry, physical oceanographer Greg Johnson has taken the time to.

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This concept aims to reduce the rising sea levels in the world’s delta regions using a modular structure that will cultivate mangroves to form natural dams.

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Paddy Ashdown: The Philippines typhoon Haiyan follows other extraordinary meteorological events that are becoming more frequent and increasingly severe.

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… Design For The Coast In The Age Of SuperStorms. VISUAL. “It’s emblematic of how coastal design is moving away from costly, large-scale walls and sea barriers that only work until overtaken by inexorable sea level rise.”.

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Via Future Directions International, an interesting article examining the shifting geostrategic currents in the Nile Basin and evaluating the potential for water crises and interstate conflict as upstream nations develop and Egypt’s …

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