Tag - sea-levels

 
 

SEA LEVELS

EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2019
Rising sea levels will transform our world
Japan must not only be ready to protect its own threatened populations, but be ready to help those elsewhere in the world that are also at risk from rising sea levels.
EDITORIALS
Sep 2, 2019
Asia gets that sinking feeling
Asian leaders, and their publics, and indeed coastal residents around the world, must begin preparing for a future marked by inundation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2019
Greenland's rapid melting is a hugely underplayed story
It's officially time to panic — or at least pay more attention.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 30, 2017
Rising seas will swallow 14,000 U.S. historic sites by 2100, study finds
Almost 14,000 archaeological sites and national monuments in the United States could be lost by 2100 as seas rise due to climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2017
Taxpayers expected to take hit as Trump moves to dump Obama-era flood-risk building standards
U.S. President Donald Trump will revoke an Obama-era executive order on Tuesday that required strict building standards for government-funded projects to reduce exposure to increased flooding from sea level rise, sources said.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 23, 2015
Obama, in Everglades, wades into climate change politics
President Barack Obama strolled past reedy sawgrass and twisted mangrove tree roots in Florida's Everglades on Wednesday, part of a push to get Americans thinking and talking about the damage climate change is causing close to home.

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