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Swelling lakes pose threat to Tibet rails

2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Xinhua: Swelling lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a notable sign of global warming, are threatening the safety of the worlds highest railway, according to climate and ecological experts. One flooded lake is now only 8 kilometers away from a section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the depopulated area of Hol Xil Nature Reserve, according to the latest satellite monitoring by the Qinghai Provincial Academy of Meteorological Sciences. Liu Baokang, engineer with the academys remote-sensing and ecological...

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Bondi under siege as swelling ocean seeps into suburbs

2013-09-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: Bondi beach will shrink to a thin ribbon of sand and extreme storm surges would reach the top of its concrete sea wall, research commissioned by the local council shows. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on Friday, found the sea level would rise and could be expected to be up to 80 centimetres higher by the end of the century. As scientists warned of dire global consequences from climate change at the report's release in Stockholm, residents in Sydney...

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