News tagged with sea level
Related topics: climate change , sea level rise , ocean , ice sheet , glaciers
Wind, warmer water driving Antarctica ice loss
(AP) -- West Antarctica has been losing ice and scientists now think they know why.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Sea level rise a 'challenging issue' that needs to be addressed: scientists
Sea level is rising, and California's coastal communities will need to prepare for the gradual inundation of low-lying areas, as well as increased erosion rates and damage from storms. Gary Griggs, professor ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Ice-age reptile extinctions provide a glimpse of likely responses to human-caused climate change
A wave of reptile extinctions on the Greek islands over the past 15,000 years may offer a preview of the way plants and animals will respond as the world rapidly warms due to human-caused climate change, according ...
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Heaven on Earth melting away
On a November evening, with the spring sun in northern Antarctica slowly setting about 11 p.m., the view from the top of the Marr Ice Piedmont - a glacier nearly 40 miles long by 20 miles wide - was all ice and sky. ...
Dec 03, 2010 |
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Global sea-level rise at the end of the last Ice Age
Southampton researchers have estimated that sea-level rose by an average of about 1 metre per century at the end of the last Ice Age, interrupted by rapid 'jumps' during which it rose by up to 2.5 metres per century. The ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Man, climate combine to erode Cancun's beaches
(AP) -- Cancun's eroding white sand beaches are providing a note of urgency to the climate talks being held just south of this seaside resort famed for its postcard-perfect vistas.
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Satellites reveal differences in sea level rises
Glaciers are retreating and parts of the ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are melting into the ocean. This must result in a rise in sea level, but by how much? A new measurement of the gravity everywhere ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Predicting sea level rise: Understanding how icebergs form could lead to better forecasts
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to understand how fast sea level could rise as the climate warms, a University of Michigan researcher has developed a new theory to describe how icebergs detach from ice sheets ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Archaeological sites threatened by rising seas, urban development
Should global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world will be lost to erosion.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 12, 2010 |
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Tiny marine creatures could help diagnose the health of Puget Sound
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Washington researchers are using tiny sea creatures called foraminifera to help diagnose the health of Puget Sound.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Marshall Islands plan seawall to block rising seas
The low-lying Marshall Islands, a Pacific atoll chain that rises barely a metre above sea level, has announced plans for a wall to hold back rising sea levels.
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Troubled islands: Hurricanes, oil spill and sea level rise
The islands flanking the outlet of the Mississippi River are not only facing losses due to sea level rise and local subsidence, according to one study, but new unknown impacts from oil recovery operations, say researchers ...
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Scientists issue call to action for archaeological sites threatened by rising seas
Should global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world will be lost to erosion. With no hope of saving all of these ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Measuring sea-level rise in the Falklands
Sea levels around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic have risen since the mid nineteenth century and the rate of sea-level rise has accelerated over recent decades, according to newly published research. The findings ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2010 |
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With rising sea levels, the time for adapting is now
The authors of a new book have called for the development of more robust international ocean and ice sheet monitoring and modelling programs designed to help community adaptation planning keep pace with the ...
Oct 11, 2010 |
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