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Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers
2013-05-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IMAGINE your job is to protect London from surging seas. In one way it is easy: unlike most coastal cities, London has a formidable flood defence system in the form of the Thames Barrier, capable of protecting it from all but the highest storm surges. But as the seas rise, the risk of the barrier being breached will increase steadily. With a 1-metre rise in local sea level, London will get flooded every 10 years. So when do you start building new flood defences, and how high do you make them? The...
Philippines Navys second Gregorio del Pilar-class frigate conducts sea trials
2013-05-23 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The Philippines Navy's second Gregorio del Pilar-class frigate, BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF-16), has started sea trials following the completion of a $15.15m refurbishment programme.
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USS Minnesota successfully completes Alpha and Bravo sea trials
2013-05-21 01:00:00| Naval Technology
USS Minnesota (SSN 783), the US Navy's tenth Virginia-class submarine, has successfully completed its Alpha and Bravo sea trials at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division in Virginia, US.
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Northrop Grumman installs IP-based airspace communication system in the North Sea
2013-05-20 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Northrop Grumman's Europe-based air traffic management (ATM) systems subsidiary, together with the UK's air traffic management services provider (ANSP) NATS, has installed an airspace communication system in the North Sea to enhance air safety.
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Study quantifies sea level rise from melting glaciers
2013-05-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: The world`s major ice sheets -- on Greenland and Antarctica -- haven`t really started a major meltdown yet. But the rest of the world`s glacial regions have been losing ice at a rate of about 260 billion metric tons annually, raising sea level by about 0.03 inches per year -- about a third of the observed sea level rise. The biggest ice losses are happening in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalaya. Combined, the areas contribute as much to sea level rise...
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