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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first. Observed Past Rise.

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Where’d the wood go? The importance of wood in rivers and how we can learn to appreciate it

HumanNature

We also know that wood is stored for a period of time in streams, but that an essential function of wood is movement through river systems at varying rates 19,20 to its final destinations of lakes and oceans 21. Hydrol Process 20 , 183–196 (2006). Geomorphology 80 , 295–309 (2006). Earth Surf Process Landf 44 , 624–640 (2019).

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The fertilisation of the Amazon rainforest by Saharan dust

Our Environment

The winds pick up Saharan dust, which then travels across the Atlantic Ocean to where it is deposited in the Amazon basin [4]. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Oehlert, A. Gaston, C. Shukman, D. O’Shea, N. Kaufman, Y.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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