May 06, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Alan Ojeda is CEO of the Rilea Group, which won a gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the United States Green Building Council. Ojeda recently spoke at a resiliency conference in Miami. He explained that to prepare for sea ...
Read More...May 05, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to new analysis from the Center for Progressive Reform, at least 17 communities across the United States are currently being forced to relocate due to climate change. In many of these communities stronger storm surge and rising sea levels, coupled with industry activities ...
Read More...May 04, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis -Remote island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have for many years been considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of sea level rise. Scientists have now created a replica of a coral reef island to reveal what a metre (3.3 feet) of ...
Read More...May 03, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The recent predictions from NOAA of one foot of sea level rise by 2100 under the best case scenario, and more than eight feet of sea level rise in the “extreme” scenario has prompted a study that shows what extreme sea level rise ...
Read More...May 02, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A crack that could create an iceberg the size of Delaware – and destabilize one of the largest ice shelves in the Antarctic – has branched out and begun to widen more quickly. The new fissure has turned toward the shelf’s ocean edge, ...
Read More...May 01, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – If there’s anything more complicated than the global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea-level rise, it might be the forces of real estate speculation and the race-based historical housing patterns that color present-day gentrification ...
Read More...April 29, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study on arctic melting was released on Tuesday. About 90 scientists helped produce the report, while more than two-dozen experts peer-reviewed the results. The report found that even with rapid action to curb global warming pollutants like carbon dioxide and ...
Read More...April 28, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The oceans are rising and already creating problems from Boston to Miami. But the true scope of what the world is in for is hard to imagine. Standing on dry land today and knowing that it will be underwater by 2100 is understandable in ...
Read More...April 27, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A report released by NOAA in January included an extreme sea-level rise forecast of 10 to 12 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 around the U.S., compared to the previous estimate of about 8 feet. This would put The U.S. Naval Academy, JFK Airport, ...
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