Tag: Sea Level Rise
Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024, major...
Pep Canadell, CSIRO and Rob Jackson, Stanford University
The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by...
Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida’s...
Jayur Mehta, Florida State University and Tara Skipton, Florida State University
Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these...
As climate change erodes US coastlines, an invasive plant could become...
Judith Weis, Rutgers University Newark
Many invasive species are found along U.S. coasts, including fishes, crabs, mollusks and marsh grasses. Since the general opinion...
Protecting the world’s wetlands: 5 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 marks the date when 18 nations signed the Convention on Wetlands in 1971, in the...
Far-sighted adaptation to rising seas is blocked by just fixing eroded...
Andrew G. Keeler, East Carolina University; Dylan McNamara, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Jennifer Irish, Virginia Tech
Coastal communities around the world are struggling...
Melting Arctic sends a message: Climate change is here in a...
Mark Serreze, University of Colorado
Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
