Tag: sea levels
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Marin public health tool gauges sea-levels ‘vulnerability’
Homes in the Spinnaker Point neighborhood stand alongside wetlands in San Rafael, Calif., on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Nearly all of the residents in the Canal area live in the flooding zone, according to the county. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal) A new online tool created by Marin County’s public health office aims to chart the…
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California Ports hear sea level defense could cost SF Bay $110 bn
California ports heard a report that the cost of defending the San Francisco Bay from sea level rise could cost $110 billion while the City of San Francisco may need an additional $13 billion to defend itself. Even more ominously Brian Garcia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) noted that ice sheet…
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NASA-Led Study Pinpoints Areas of New York City Sinking, Rising
Photo: The land beneath the New York City area, including the borough of Queens, pictured here, is moving by fractions of inches each year. The motions are a legacy of the ice age and also due to human land usage. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists using space-based radar found that land in New York City is sinking…
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This sinking isle: homeowners battling coastal erosion
Photo: A house on the edge of the cliffs at Easton Bavents, Southwold, Suffolk. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian As sea levels rise, thousands of people on the coast of Britain have been forced to move inland. But a handful of hardy souls refuse to abandon their property to the ravages of the waves. After all, they say,…
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Keeping score on Earth’s Global Sea-Level Rise
A map of ocean salinity at the surface, one way scientists track the effects of shifting storms or melting ice. Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. An international collaboration among dozens of scientists has come within less than a millimeter of attaining a long-sought goal: accounting for all the jostling, overlapping, and…
