The ice shelf that holds Antarctica’s massive Pine Island Glacier from collapsing into the Southern Ocean is breaking up faster than before as climate change weakens the natural barriers to glacial melting, a new study finds. The research raises alarms over the potential for further accelerated sea level rise. The Pine Island … [continued]
Officials are building barriers to protect homes from rising seas, but the barriers are hastening erosion.
Human-caused climate change was responsible for $8 billion of the damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, new research published Tuesday in Nature found. The additional flooding attributed to melting glaciers and ice sheets affected an additional 71,000 people, and just the climate-caused damage on its own would have been the fourth-most expensive weather-related … [continued]
As the ice sheets of the world melt, an enormous amount of pressure will be lifted off of the continental crusts that play host to them, as well as the surrounding oceanic basins. Something similar is broadly true, but to a much lesser degree, of the world’s remaining large glaciers (think of the Himalayas).
A new study by NASA and MIT helps demonstrate how the oceans absorb heat and carbon dioxide and sequester them for up to a century or more. It also shows how that ability is coming to an end as ocean temperatures rise.
Originally published on the ECOreport Sea levels have been rising 0.14 inches (3.5 millimeters) per year since the early 1990s, and in the decades to come, many of the world’s coastal cities will be threatened. Hamburg’s new city core responded to this challenge with a relatively inexpensive solution, HafenCity is designed to … [continued]
