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Melting glaciers have been shifting the Earth’s poles since 1995, new study suggests

Physics World

In 2013, Jianli Chen and colleagues at the University of Texas, Austin showed that an eastward drift of the poles that began in 2005 is linked to melting glaciers and the associated sea-level rise. Convection in the mantle is also believed to contribute to this long-term drift. Amazing GRACE.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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Unweighted Cost-Benefit Analysis Under Arbitrariness & Environmental Justice Principles

Vermont Law

2013)(West). . Coke & Coal Chems. 3d 930, 941 (D.C. 2006) (West); See also Nat’l Assoc. of Clean Water Agencies v. 3d 1115, 1145 (D.C. Ed Diener et. The Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being: Relative or Absolute. , INDICATORS RSCH 195, 204 (1993); See also. Ruut Veenhoven, Is Happiness Relative?