Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
OAR also monitors the Arctic’s rapidly changing environment, as it significantly influences global weather patterns and sea levels. From melting sea ice to shifts in marine life, this research is vital to understanding and adapting to climate impacts.
Scientific American
JULY 25, 2025
What science doesn’t know is how the Greenland ice sheet might come apart. And that’s a really important question to answer, since it has a total of 24 feet of sea-level rise still locked up in its icy mass. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University.
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Scientific American
JUNE 17, 2025
If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. The NEGIS is how a good deal of that planet-altering flood would enter the sea. Dahl-Jensen knows that ice streams are a big factor in sea-level rise, but she’s also aware that we don’t yet know how they behave.
Legal Planet
APRIL 7, 2025
Systematic measurements of atmospheric CO2 levels begin at Mauna Loa observatory. First paper on risk of sea level rise due to climate change. Antarctic ice cores extend record of global temperatures and CO2 levels back 150,000 years. Measurements continue to present, tracking annual increases.
Legal Planet
MARCH 10, 2022
C during an overshoot period this century, will result in irreversible impacts on certain ecosystems with low resilience, such as polar, mountain, and coastal ecosystems, impacted by icesheet, glacier melt, or by accelerating and higher committed sea level rise.” The report also says that: “Additional warming, e.g., above 1.5°
Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
Massachusetts pointed to the loss of coastal land from sea-level rise, while the Urgenda judgments ultimately concluded that there is a serious risk that climate change will cause the human rights of people in the Netherlands to not be met. First, who can stand as a plaintiff?
Academy of Natural Sciences
JULY 30, 2021
As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.
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