Tag: Rising sea levels

Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster

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A critical Antarctic glacier is looking more vulnerable as satellite images show the ice shelf that blocks it from collapsing into the sea is...

Danish lawmakers give go-ahead to built Copenhagen island

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COPENHAGEN — Denmark’s Parliament on Friday voted in favor of building a 20-billion-kroner ($3.3 billion) artificial island in Copenhagen that will house at least...

Biden doubling spending to prepare for hurricanes, storms

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is doubling U.S. emergency spending to help communities prepare for hurricanes and other extreme weather events, while launching a...

Blinken brings Biden’s anti-Trump climate policy to Iceland

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — On a trip overshadowed by the crisis in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday touted the...

Study: Climate change added $8 billion to Sandy’s damages

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Climate change-triggered sea level rise added $8 billion in damage during 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, one of nation's costliest weather disasters, a new study said. ...

New Florida law seeks to protect state from sea level rise

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida — one of the most vulnerable places in the world to sea level rise — will spend hundreds of millions...

Revamped EPA website shows increased climate change risks

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WASHINGTON — After a gap of more than four years, the Environmental Protection Agency is relaunching a website highlighting evidence of climate change in...

Thunberg: ‘We will not accept’ giving up on limiting warming

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg says those in power may “have given up” on the 2015 landmark Paris climate deal to...

Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever

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Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31% more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of...

In Biden climate show, watch for cajoling, conflict, pathos

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WASHINGTON — It won't rival Netflix for drama, but 40 world leaders will try to save the planet from ever-worsening global warming in a...