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Dunes, reefs protect US coasts from climate change
2013-07-14 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Rising sea levels and extreme weather put 16% of U.S. coastlines at "high-hazard" risk and the number of threatened residents could double if natural habitats -- sand dunes, coral reefs, sea grasses, mangroves -- aren't protected, Stanford University researchers say in a study today. The study, noting that 23 of the 25 most densely populated U.S. counties are coastal, comes as U.S. and local officials are looking at "hardening" shorelines with billion-dollar sea walls and other projects in the...
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Forget the coasts. These VC funds are pouring millions into the Midwest
2013-06-19 14:31:29| Beverages - Topix.net
The UpTake: In the Midwest, the newest venture capitalists are regions. And they're raising millions of dollars from their biggest corporate patrons to make bets on startups within their bounds.
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Klein: How the Golden Spike Joined America's Coasts
2013-05-11 02:48:12| Railroads - Topix.net
Tomorrow happens to be National Train Day , which was designated as the first Saturday after the anniversary of the driving of the "Golden Spike." On May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads were joined in a remote area of Utah , completing the first transcontinental railroad.
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Greenlands Ice Loss Slows, But Still Wont Save Coasts
2013-05-08 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The flow of Greenland's glaciers toward the sea may have increased significantly in the past decade, but a new report in Nature finds that rate of increase is unlikely to continue. "The loss of ice has doubled in the past 10 years, but it's not going to double again,' said lead author Faezeh Nick, a glaciologist at the University Centre in Svalbard, in Longyearbyen, Norway, in an interview. That conclusion, based on a new, sophisticated computer model, makes the worst-case scenario of sea level...
Wildlife Sanctuaries Along Coasts and Sea Level Rise
2013-04-21 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new report on the potential effects of climate change on NOAA's Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary uses existing observations and science-based expectations to identify how climate change could affect habitats, plants and animals within the sanctuary and adjacent coastal areas. It also outlines new management recommendations for the sanctuary, and sanctuary officials called it the first step toward addressing them. They also said the report issued by the sanctuary, Climate Change and the...