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East Asia Typhoon Intensity on the Rise as G20 Leaders

Andrew Burger September 6, 2016

East Asia typhoons have been increasing in intensity, a trend that is expected to continue and take a heavier toll throughout the western Pacific rim and posing greater challenges to regional and world leaders.Read More

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New Studies Reveal Fastest Sea Level Rise in 2,000 Years

Andrew Burger February 23, 2016

Global mean sea level is rising faster than it has in more than 2,000 years along with temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions, according to four new climate research papers.Read More

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Land Masses Soaking Up More Water as Climate Warms

Andrew Burger February 17, 2016

As ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, continents and land masses around the world are soaking up and storing more water. That's temporarily slowing sea level rise, according to new research from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of California, Irvine. Read More

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Rising Seas – Adapting to Changing Coastlines

Thomas Schueneman June 20, 2014

Sea level rise and the changing shoreline Oceanographer and author of High Tide on Main Street, John Englander is a leading expert and educator on sea level rise. In this TED talk Englander explains how human civilization takes for granted global coastlines, given that for all of recorded human history, it hasn’t really moved in any significant way. But that […]Read More

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NASA Research Indicates Slow, Irreversible West Antarctic Ice Melt

Thomas Schueneman May 14, 2014

Bad news for Antarctic ice, but not particularly surprising to scientists Several news headlines this week have heralded the “unstoppable” decline of a major portion of the West Antarctica ice sheet in the Amundsen Sea, eventually disappearing in as little as two centuries. Projections for the complete collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet range from two hundred to […]Read More

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Sea Level Rise: Adaptation Strategies for the San Francisco Bay

Thomas Schueneman July 24, 2013

In a previous post we outlined the impacts of sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay region as a consequence of climate change. As stated in the original post, the San Francisco Bay region comprises the largest estuary on the North American west coast. The bay feeds into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a vital […]Read More

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Greenland and the Great Ice Dilema

Chris Keenan April 26, 2012

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting fast, which very well may affect the rise of the sea level.Read More