Tag: Rising sea levels
Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster
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
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
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
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
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.
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New Florida law seeks to protect state from sea level rise
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
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
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
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
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...
