Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:57am AEDT (ABC) Rising sea levels are likely to cause serious and regular flooding in Australian coastal cities by the end of the century, according to maps released by the Federal Government today. The maps for low-lying areas in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Newcastle, the New South Wales’ central coast and south-east […]
By LESLIE KAUFMANNovember 25, 2010 NORFOLK, Va. — In this section of the Larchmont neighborhood, built in a sharp “u” around a bay off the Lafayette River, residents pay close attention to the lunar calendar, much as other suburbanites might attend to the daily flow of commuter traffic. If the moon is going to be […]
By JUSTIN GILLISNovember 13, 2010 TASIILAQ, Greenland — With a tense pilot gripping the stick, the helicopter hovered above the water, a red speck of machinery lost in a wilderness of rock and ice. To the right, a great fjord stretched toward the sea, choked with icebergs. To the left loomed one of the immense […]
By Dina ZayedALEXANDRIA, Egypt | Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:33am EST (Reuters) – Twenty years ago, Taher Ibrahim raced his friends across Alexandria’s beaches, now rising seas have swept over his favorite childhood playground. Alexandria, with 4 million people, is Egypt’s second-largest city, an industrial center and a port that handles four-fifths of national trade. […]
By Staff WritersNov 03, 2010 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2010 – Should global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world will be lost to erosion. With no hope of saving all of these sites, archaeologists Torben Rick from the Smithsonian […]
Estimates of weight-at-age (g) for 3-6 year old herring from 1970 to 2008. There has been a significant change in the size of Pacific herring, a key forage species. Similar to that of the West Coast of Vancouver Island ecozone, a decline in the weight-at-age of Pacific herring occurred from 1970–2008. This decline is currently […]
By Tim Wheeler October 20, 2010 The last house standing on Holland Island, an eroding sliver of land in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, has been claimed by the water. The two-story frame structure, abandoned and badly damaged by Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003, has been teetering on the brink of collapse for some […]
Flooding that caused destruction elsewhere, brings joy and hope to those at the bottom of the Indus river By Declan Walsh in Keti Bunder, www.guardian.co.uk Tuesday 5 October 2010 09.43 BST Ali Hussain’s sun-beaten face cracked into a broad smile, revealing a set of ferociously rotten, red-stained teeth corroded by years of chewing tobacco and […]
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune Monday, September 20, 2010, 11:15 PM Despite serious questions raised by federal regulators about the project’s environmental impacts, Louisiana coastal officials will continue to build six barrier berms to capture oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, a building effort that will result in about 25 miles of 6-foot-high sand and […]
By Rashme Sehgal September 5th, 2010 New Delhi — Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean have led Indian scientists to conclude that the Indian Ocean is rising faster than other oceans. Dr Satheesh C. Shenoi, director, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, speaking at a workshop on “Coasts, Coastal […]
