The overall theme of the high-level meeting will be “Addressing the threats posed by sea-level rise”. Taking place on the heels of the Summit of the Future, the high-level meeting will focus ...
Caused by rising water levels, this would happen about once a year in the 1950s. Between 2007 and 2016, that became eight times a year. If sea-level rise continues at its predicted rate, there's a 50% ...
In a 2-1 vote last month, Island County commissions adopted the Shoreline Master Program, which is mandated to be updated every 10 years under the the state Shoreline Management Act that must be ...
The final forum communique noted that regional leaders had discussed the “broad-ranging nature of climate change” and recognised that sea level rise is a “severe manifestation of climate ...
The Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring (PSLGM), operates under the Climate and Oceans Support Program in the Pacific (COSPPac). It is a continuation of the 20-year South Pacific Sea Level and ...
Even now, ice draining from Thwaites into the Amundsen Sea accounts for about four percent of global sea-level rise - as it dumps 50 billion tonnes of ice into the ocean each year - but if the ice ...