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A fuel train is sinking in the Bow River
2013-06-27 17:24:27| Railroads - Topix.net
Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives move cars at a railyard near the Bonny Brook bridge in Calgary, in a May 16, 2012 photo.
The Sinking State: Maryland Could See Average Sea Levels Rise Six Feet by 2100
2013-06-27 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Maryland should prepare for average sea levels to rise by as much as 2 feet by 2050, according to a report led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. With its 3,100 miles of tidal shoreline and low-lying lands, Maryland is one of the most vulnerable states to sea-rise and carries with it a history of residents contending with decreasing land. Over the years, shorelines have eroded and low-relief lands and islands, some of which were once inhabited, have long since been...
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Americas first climate refugees: Its happening now The village is sinking
2013-05-18 14:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One afternoon in the waning days of winter, the most powerful man in Newtok, Alaska, hopped on a plane and flew 1,000 miles to plead for the survival of his village. Stanley Tom, Newtok`s administrator, had a clear purpose for his trip: find the money to move the village on the shores of the Bering Sea out of the way of an approaching disaster caused by climate change. Newtok was rapidly losing ground to erosion. The land beneath the village was falling into the river. Tom needed money for bulldozers...
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New Sinking Islands and Lands
2013-04-17 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: The seas do rise and fall over the ages. Lands sink and rise depending on the weather. Dynamic modeling of sea-level rise, which takes storm wind and wave action into account, paints a much graver picture for some low-lying Pacific islands under climate-change scenarios than the passive computer modeling used in earlier research, according to a new report. A team led by research oceanographer Curt Storlazzi of the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center compared passive bathtub inundation...
'Sinking' Jakarta pins hopes on rising star
2013-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: As a mega-storm flooded Jakarta last week and stranded half the city, its new governor Joko Widodo stood by his vision for the Indonesian capital. "No traffic jam. No flooding. No poor." With a population of 10 million, Jakarta ranks as one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing and most-congested cities. Thousands fled inundated homes, the central business district was paralysed, and drenched commuter rail tracks left half the city stranded. The new governor had to declare a 10-day emergency...
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