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Satellite Tracking Rising Seas Launches Successfully
2016-01-17 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A satellite to measure the heights of the oceans was launched successfully on Sunday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage SpaceX Successfully Lands Rocket After Launch of Satellites Into OrbitDEC. 21, 2015 Blue Origin Launches Bezoss Space Dreams and Lands a RocketNOV. 24, 2015 New Lookout for Solar Storms Lifts Off on SpaceX RocketFEB. 11, 2015 The Jason-3 mission, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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Rising seas expected sink islands near US capital in 50 years
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The 700 or so people who live on the Tangier islands may be among the first climate refugees in the US when their current home disappears under water. This could happen to much of the main island - located 170 kilometres south-east of Washington DC - in as little as 50 years, unless defences are built to hold back the rising tides. "What`s amazing is that this is a short flight away from Washington DC, so it`s right in our backyard," says David Schulte of the US Army Corps of Engineers in Norfolk...
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Arkansas a refuge from rising seas in Marshall Islands
2015-11-26 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Valentino Keimbar hides from the intense heat in the shade of a breadfruit tree, waiting for his basketball game to begin. It was supposed to start a couple of hours ago, maybe three, but time matters little here on the Marshall Islands. Keimbar would love to stay on this tiny string of atolls in the vast Pacific Ocean, which he considers a precious gift from his ancestors. But he fears hotter weather and rising seas may soon force everyone to go, and that many will choose an unlikely place 6,000...
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Rising seas, peat may have done in large ice age animals
2015-11-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Woolly mammoths and other large ice age mammals thrived in northern Alaska until environmental changes turned grasslands into peat and rising sea levels submerged the Bering Land Bridge, cutting off their access to Asia, according to a research paper published Monday. Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of California studied bones of ice age horses, steppe bison, mammoths and other animals to determine why they died out in whats now Arctic Alaska. We wanted...
This is how rising seas will reshape face of the United States
2015-10-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In a new study, a team of scientists who specialize in studying rising seas bring the implications of their research right to the U.S.s doorstep -- calculating just how many American cities and municipalities are at risk of being flooded in the future, as well as how many may already be committed to that fate. The striking result is that millions of Americans may already live on land destined to be someday -- albeit perhaps in a very distant future -- reclaimed by the sea. But the number for...