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Rising seas force landowners embrace once-reviled 'living shorelines'
2014-09-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: While some coastal property owners recoil at the idea of anything marring their view of the water, many are coming to a stark realization: "Living shorelines" -- with native grasses and rock or oyster-reef breakwaters -- may be the only option left for countering rising seas and eroding shoreline. "It's either do this or lose our property altogether," said John Blackwell of Pensacola, who has seen almost 20 feet of his bayou-front land wash away in just four years. Living shorelines, once considered...
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Rising temperatures, seas seen costing US billions
2014-06-27 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: Ignoring the effects of climate change will cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars, with a large part of that loss connected to farms that struggle to adapt and coastal lands flooded by the oceans, according to a report released this week. The report, entitled "Risky Business," broadly addresses the risks climate change poses to the U.S. economy, and is endorsed by a bipartisan group of heavy hitters from the investing and business worlds. The report doesn't provide new climate change science....
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Rising seas uncover Pacific war dead
2014-06-07 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Rising sea levels have disturbed the skeletons of soldiers killed on the Marshall Islands during World War Two. Speaking at UN climate talks in Bonn, the Island's foreign minister said that high tides had exposed one grave with 26 dead. The minister said the bones were most likely those of Japanese troops. Driven by global warming, waters in this part of the Pacific have risen faster than the global average. With a high point just two metres above the waters, the Marshall Islands are...
Rising seas threaten Delaware coastal areas
2014-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Delaware Online: Along Prime Hook Beach, one of Delaware's most flood-threatened spots, longtime resident James A. Joyce Jr. said he pays attention to hurricane hazards, but worries more often about winter northeast storms. "I've been here 18 years now and we've been fortunate so far," Joyce said. "None of the hurricanes have really hit us hard. But hurricanes are always bad for somebody, and eventually our luck is going to run out." For Delaware's coastal residents, all storms be it a fast moving but highly...
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Rising Seas + Dams + Aquifer Pumping = Delta Blues
2014-03-28 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Gardiner Harris has a comprehensive feature in The Times today taking a close look at the impact of advancing seas and sinking landscapes on Bangladesh, with a related story taking a global look at sea-level rise from global warming. Therell be much more from The Times in the next few days as Justin Gillis reports from Yokohama, Japan, on the scheduled release on Monday of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global warming impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Whats...