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Marshall Islands: Seas Rising Faster Than Refugee Law Can Adapt
2016-07-02 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Deeply: Sandbags surround the Majuro airstrip while hurriedly-built bridges span flooded sections of road, and many Marshall Islanders have built seawalls to protect their homes on this remote nation in the Pacific Ocean. The Marshall Islands are made up of five main islands and 29 coral atolls spread across three-quarters of a million miles of ocean, but they amount to just 70 square miles of actual land. And even that is now at the mercy of the seas, which are rising thanks to climate change. The...
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The seas may be rising, but Florida keeps building
2016-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Fla., where the construction industry is eager to make sure sea-level rise doesn't put a crimp in luxury living. Photo courtesy of Flickr. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The home that Stanley Young and Rich Cusmano are building here will hover above an infinity pool, a shimmering glass-and-concrete icon of tropical luxury set on one of the coastal city's scenic waterways. Anyone willing to pay upward of $4 million for such a showpiece will, of course, want some certainty about his or her investment....
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Rising seas push too much salt into the Florida Everglades
2016-05-25 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Florida Everglades is a swampy wilderness the size of Delaware. In some places along the road in southern Florida, it looks like tall saw grass to the horizon, a prairie punctuated with a few twisted cypress trees. The sky is the palest blue. But beneath the surface a different story is unfolding. Because of climate change and sea level rise, the ocean is starting to seep into the swampland. If the invasion grows worse, it could drastically change the Everglades, and a way of life for millions...
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Rising Seas Push Too Much Salt Into The Florida Everglades
2016-05-25 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Rising Seas Push Too Much Salt Into The Florida Everglades Rising Seas Push Too Much Salt Into The Florida Everglades Audio will be available later today. Facebook Twitter Google+ Email May 25, 20164:55 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Christopher Joyce A view from the Shark Valley Visitors Center in Everglades National Park. Much of the fresh water that used to replenish South Florida's saw grass prairie has been diverted to agriculture,...
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Rising seas puts Vietnam in climate change 'bull's eye'
2016-04-21 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cornell Chronicle: Rising seas puts Vietnam in climate change 'bulls-eye' Fishing boats at a beach in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam with their nets stowed at the end of the day.Mike Hoffmann/ProvidedA woman sells fruits and vegetables at the floating farmers market near the city of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta region. In a tale of two life experiences, Mike Hoffmann went to Vietnam for the first time in 47 years: On his first tour of duty, he was a 19-year-old U.S. Marine, and for the March 2016 trip, Hoffmann...
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