"Sea Level Rise Now" News Digest

Marin Supervisors Receive Harrowing Report on Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise – Marin Independent Journal

April 09, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 09 2019

Credit: Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal.Article Synopsis – Climate change is already negatively affecting the health of Marin County, California residents and “within 15 years, sea level rise could threaten the county’s shoreline buildings, roads and utility systems”. Officials warn residents should expect an “increase in ...

April 08, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 08 2019

Credit: Mario Tama Getty Images.Article Synopsis – The $14 billion network of levees and floodwalls that was built to protect New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina will be inadequate in just four years due to sea level rise and ground subsidence. Repair costs to raise hundreds ...

April 06, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 06 2019

Credit: Alexis Bonogofsky for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.Article Synopsis – “Rising temperatures are triggering cascading effects across the Arctic, from diminishing ice to changes in when plants flower and where wildlife is found.” These changes in the Arctic are also having an effect on ...

April 05, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 05 2019

Credit: Blue Planet.Article Synopsis – A new method for building concrete, which accounts for 4-8% of CO2 emissions, has been developed that actually pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere. In order to return to the 300ppm CO2 concentration that is safe for the planet (we ...

April 04, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 04 2019

Credit: Travis Bubenik/Houston Public Media.Article Synopsis – A new marketplace in Texas “allows businesses and people to offset their carbon emissions by paying landowners to keep coastal marshes in their natural state”. Coastal marshes naturally remove CO2 from the atmosphere. However, some environmentalists fear that ...

April 03, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 03 2019

Credit: Oceanix.Article Synopsis – The UN has just released plans for a floating city that could “help protect people from sea-level rise while addressing the lack of affordable housing in major cities”. The city can hold around 10,000 residents and could withstand tsunamis and Category ...

April 02, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 02 2019

Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.Article Synopsis – The seven cities most likely to disappear from sea level rise by 2100 are New Orleans, Miami, Houston, Atlantic City, Charleston, Boston, and Virginia Beach. All of these cities are low-lying coastal cities and projections are based on current ...

April 01, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Apr 01 2019

Credit: Dominic Hogdson / Sentinel-2/ESA.Article Synopsis – “A huge iceberg about twice the size of New York City is about to break away from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf.” According to NASA, this will be the largest iceberg to break from the Brunt Shelf in more ...

March 30, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Mar 30 2019

Article Synopsis – Severe flooding from rainstorms in the midwest has led to dozens of levee breaches across hundreds of miles of roads and farmlands. “The devastation to the levees has left much of the Midwest with nothing to hold back the waters from even ...