Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricanes Fiona and Ian brought destruction and death: the former to Puerto Rico, which still has not recovered from Hurricane María in 2017, and the latter to Florida, destroying the Fort Myers area. And, as we know, it only takes one to bring extreme devastation—and both of these did.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many communities are facing increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires, rising sea levels, more extreme rain, flooding, heat, and drought. For the past several years, TNC has worked alongside lawmakers, organizational partners, and communities across the state to update the GMA to incorporate considerations of climate change.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We wanted to contribute to new knowledge in this population that is often considered to be the same as the population living at sea level, and from a physiological point of view we are very different.”. Solving the mystery.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Home Sales and Water Levels are On The Rise in Flood Zones Written by Abigail Bailey and Dr. Guanchi Zhang Sea levels are rising in the United States, and so are home sales in flood zones. Both the emotional and financial loss of homes destroyed by sea level rise increasingly falls on those least able to tolerate it.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Challenge of Sea Level Rise Imagine your favorite beach town slowly disappearing beneath encroaching waves. Rising sea levels, a consequence of climate change, pose a significant threat to coastal communities worldwide.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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Washington Nature

MARCH 17, 2022

She came to TNC as a Sea Grant Marc Hershman Marine Policy Fellow in 2014 after completing a M.S Molly’s work at TNC has covered a wide range of topics including coastal sea level rise and resiliency planning, derelict crab pot removal, aquaculture, and fisheries. in Environmental Science at Washington State University.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica. In the Arctic this has led to regional warming four times faster than the global average.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The report-- Water Withdrawal and Consumptive Use Estimates for the Delaware River Basin (1990-2017) with Projections through 2060 -- shows more people using less water overall is indicative of the benefits of water efficiency in the Basin. Click Here for a copy of the report.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

At the very least, cities and counties could recoup some of the costs they are forced to spend on climate adaptation measures, such as building sea level rise defenses, or other costs incurred because of climate change, such as loss of tourist revenue. But localities must first establish that courts have jurisdiction to hear the cases.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

in 2015 and again in 2017 in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in Texas and Hurricane Irma’s wrath in Florida, two Category 4 hurricanes that made continental landfall in the same year for the first time since records began in 1851. and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018).

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 11, 2021

The entire delta is sinking at a rate faster than sea levels are rising, meaning that further saltwater intrusion is inevitable. Resolution 120 , a policy released in 2017, is both a response to current problems and a potential roadmap for natural solutions. Resolution 120.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1) 11, 2022); see generally G.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The local government wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 9.64% every year by 2026-27, using 2017-18 as a baseline. Its Urban-LEDS plan says it will reduce emissions by 20% by 2025 from 2017-18 levels, and identified actions with a mitigation potential of 614,376 tonnes of CO2 per year by 2025-26.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

The book predicted the threat of rising sea levels and the need to reform fresh-water management strategies to combat droughts. Verdict: This must-read book will give the reader a comprehensive understanding of the issues at hand. – Climate of Hope (2017). Climate of Hope was my favorite book last year.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 26, 2023

Glass Octopus Glass octopuses ( Vitreledonella richardi ) are very rarely seen, not only because they live around 3,000 feet below sea level, but also because they are translucent (hence the name!) In 2017, a sister species was discovered and dubbed the frilled giant Pacific octopus. Dive deeper with dumbo octopuses.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

When Hurricane Harvey slammed into the heart of the oil industry in 2017, it exposed as many as 650 energy and industrial facilities to flooding. Recent hurricanes have inundated energy and industrial infrastructure with the realities of a changing climate.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The North Carolina profile in the EIP report notes that the reductions occurred against a backdrop of ongoing problems associated with large animal operations; the need to address pollution at coal ash disposal sites; repeated flood events; and vulnerability to sea level rise.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population. That is a lot for just one technology.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

To be fair, most of these scientists-turned-consultants are also genuinely worried about the consequences and very much support aggressive mitigation efforts; it's just that they know we are way past the point of no return on threats like sea-level rise, desertification, and catastrophic flooding. Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:57.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The case against linking environmental degradation and national security. Millennium 19 (3): 461-476. Environmental security: approaches and issues. Hardt, J.N., Environmental security in the Anthropocene: Assessing theory and practice. Understanding the Nexus.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As Pennsylvania’s climate has become warmer and there have been more swings in extreme weather, we’re already seeing more frequent flood damage to communities, businesses, homes, and crops and livestock, as well as coastal sea level rise. The sector added 7,794 jobs from 2017 through 19, for an 8.7

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020). For example, in 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by hurricane Irma and Maria.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Since the lawsuit was originally filed in 2017, the costs of coping with the climate crisis have become increasingly clear. They engaged in large-scale, sophisticated advertising and public relations campaigns to promote pervasive fossil fuel usage and to portray fossil fuels as environmentally responsible and essential to human well-being.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

For example, with expected sea level rise over the next few decades what currently would be extreme coastal floods (50-year floods or a large flood with only a 2% chance in any given year) are likely to occur annually for most coastal U.S. Hurricane Harvey in Houston is another example of this.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2021

FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. Levels in Lake Ontario are currently 245.34 feet above sea level, only two feet higher than the record low for this time of year. Syracuse.com reports that the levels are well below the average for this time of year, making it difficult to use some fixed docks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Nowhere in the United States has this been more evident recently than in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María in 2017. Hurricane-related devastation amplifies inequities because people who are already facing hardship—and who are hit hardest by hurricanes—cannot recover quickly and often slip into more socioeconomic marginality.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

D-2017-009-2 ), located in Gloucester County NJ (the “Dock 2 Project”). The level of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere locks us into a rise in sea- level that is extremely detrimental to communities and businesses on our coastal lands and river banks.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since March 2018, a team led by Licai Deng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been monitoring cloudiness, night-sky brightness, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction at “Summit C” on Saishiteng Mountain, which lies some 4200 m above sea level.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

The horrible impacts of Matthew’s rainfall would soon be repeated by others, like Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018). Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts. Higher seas mean higher storm surge and more coastal flooding leading to coastal community and ecosystem damage.

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Law Columbia

JULY 14, 2021

Puerto Rico’s already troubled energy system was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and a magnitude 6.4 Much of the existing energy infrastructure is in flood-prone areas or at risk of sea-level rise, storm surge and tsunamis. earthquake in 2020. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has allocated $9.6

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Virginia Beach is located in a region that is experiencing the highest relative sea-level rise on the U.S. feet of sea-level rise. To deal with several feet of sea-level rise that is projected by the end of the century, larger structural items like tidal gates, levees, and raising roads would be required.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A similar recent case is the gain-of-function research on viruses with human pandemic potential that was subject to a funding moratorium between 2014 and 2017 – although this was controversial, because the same research may help develop vaccines or treatments. The enormous and rapid expansion of CDR needed to bolster 1.5°C

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Law Columbia

MAY 19, 2023

sea level rise). cyclones, droughts, floods, and fires) as well as longer-term shifts (chronic) in precipitation and temperature and increased variability in weather patterns (e.g., These regulatory developments aim to address the impacts of physical and transition climate risks on almost every aspect of the markets and economy.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court previously reached the same conclusion in December 2018, but the California Supreme Court directed it to reconsider the case in light of the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Friends of the Eel River v. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. California v. Bernhardt , No.

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