Rising Sea Level

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GoDaddy Wants You To Know: Tuvalu Is Sinking

Dave Burdick | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Rising Sea Level, The Island Is Sinking, Water, Climate Change, Environment, GoDaddy.Com, Pollution, Tuvalu, Tuvalu Godaddy, Tuvalu Sinking, Green News

I love the frantic, attention-span-deprived pace of internet memes. Thanks in no small part to boingboing, the nerd/treehugger/angry media blogger dem...

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Building a Nuke Underwater?

Carl Pope | Posted 04.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Florida, Rising Sea Level, Nuclear Power, Green News

It is four weeks since April Fool's Day -- but foolishness is not confined, alas, to that one day a year. Here is a snippet from one of the stranger precincts of American politics and economics.

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Islands Could Disappear, Energy Secretary Warns Island Nations

AP | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Steven Chu, Rising Sea Level, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Green News

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is warning that if countries don't do something about climate change, "some island st...

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Green News Report - April 16, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Tom Delay, Rising Sea Level, Tax Credits, Greenwashing, Pacific Gas & Electric, Somali Pirates, Terra Choice, Green News, Solar Energy Projects, Spam, Birds, Green News Report, Coral Reefs, Solar Power, Arctic, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Goodbye Tax Day '08, Hello Tax Day '09 (with big new incentives to sweeten the deal); Birds taking the long way home; "Green...

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Copenhagen 2009; An Interview With Katherine Richardson, Chair of The International Climate Conference

Jerry Cope | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Ipcc, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change, Global Warming, Rising Sea Level, The Guardian, Angela Merkel, Bjorn Lomborg, James Hansen, Katherine Richardson.Lord Stern, Bbc News, Green News

How many people in the US realize that the UN panel on climate change said there is 90% chance that the climate change we are seeing at the moment is caused by human activity?

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Icemelt Could Shift Earth's Rotation, Moving Water Northward

AP | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Global Warming, Climate Change, Icemelt, Antarctic Icemelt, Rising Sea Level, Oregon, Green News

WASHINGTON — Long-term sea level increases that could have a devastating effect on southern Florida and highly populated coastal areas may be ev...

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Sea Levels Rising: What You Need To Know

Grist | Umbra Fisk | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Glaciers, Rising Sea Level, Antarctica, Climate Change, Environment, Melting Ice Caps, Sea Level, Extreme Weather, Ice Shelf, Green News

Q. Dear Umbra, I'm a bit confused about the possible rise in sea level that may be caused by global warming. I know that in general water expands whe...

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Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice

Janet Ritz | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

A new study warns that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, and this summer may see the first ice-free North Pole for the first time in recorded history.

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Another Depressing Screed on Global Warming

Nicholas Brown | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Manhattan Sinking, India Pollution, Rising Sea Level, Carbon Emissions, Polar Bears, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Pollution in China, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Politics News

My generation, our generation for those of you twenty-somethings out there, is going to be the first, by most indications, to really feel the worst effects of climate change.

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