sea level rise

Keeping heads above rising sea, barely

6 March 2018

Joydeep Gupta, Tuesday March 6th, 2018 Villagers around the Sundarbans in Bangladesh have become totally dependent on prawn and crab farming as the water and soil have turned too salty for anything else. Laila Khatun was carrying an armful of mud from the river. “Come, I’ll show you,” she [read more]

Short-term stability and long-term collapse: exploring the complex behavior of the Antarctic ice sheet | Eyes on Environment | Learn Science at Scitable

24 March 2017

What is the future of the Antarctic ice sheet, and is its melting contributing to current sea level rises? Find out about two recent studies illuminating the short-term and long-term prospects of the massive continent. Source: Short-term stability and long-term collapse: exploring the complex [read more]

Karachi could be submerged by 2060

30 August 2016

By: Peer Muhammad, 9 March 2015, The Third Pole Rising sea levels in the Indus delta and along Pakistan’s coastlines could submerge three major cities in Sindh in less than five decades, warns chief of Pakistan’s National Institute of Oceanography Three coastal cities in Pakistan’s Sindh [read more]

James Hansen’s Climate Bombshell: Dangerous Sea Level Rise Will Occur in Decades, Not Centuries

22 March 2016

Even scientists who question findings say ‘we ignore James Hansen at our peril.’ by Lauren McCauley, staff writer Taking into consideration “rapid, large, human-made climate forcing,” the study predicts a much more accelerated rate of sea level rise of several meters, [read more]

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Keeping heads above rising sea, barely

Short-term stability and long-term collapse: exploring the complex behavior of the Antarctic ice sheet | Eyes on Environment | Learn Science at Scitable

Karachi could be submerged by 2060

James Hansen’s Climate Bombshell: Dangerous Sea Level Rise Will Occur in Decades, Not Centuries