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?
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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.
Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
A new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Science has revealed that, in addition to the influence of gradual global heating, Antarctica is increasingly affected by extreme environmental events; a recognized and predicted outcome of our heating world. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JULY 21, 2021
Sea-level rise caused by the warming ocean means that there is no beach at high tide at several Jersey and Delaware coast points. Higher sea level has also caused more frequent flooding problems in Delaware Bay and increased saltwater intrusion farther up into the Delaware River.
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 in Environmental Science at Washington State University. 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.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 12, 2023
This year, five Drexel students and recent alumni have been selected as recipients, including the Academy’s own Curatorial Assistant Daouda Njie, a recent graduate of Drexel’s Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science who was awarded a study research grant to Fiji. I think you’d be good.
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