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Isthmus of Taravao, Tahiti
Published November 7, 2020
This island’s rugged topography and dense rainforest has led most of its inhabitants to live along the coastline.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Ocean Altimetry
Published November 5, 2020
The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Land Motion
Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Ice Height
Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Gravimetry
Scientists measure ice’s gravitational pull on a pair of satellites, allowing them to estimate ice loss and its contribution to sea level rise.
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California’s Rising and Sinking Coast
Published October 23, 2020
Millions of people in the state live in low-lying coastal areas where land subsidence is exacerbating the risks of sea level rise.
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Great Fox is Disappearing
Published December 2, 2019
Rising waters are swallowing up another island in Chesapeake Bay.
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Snow over Antarctica Buffered Sea Level Rise
Published December 26, 2018
It snowed more, but the mass gained only compensates for some of the ice being lost in Antarctica.
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More Glaciers in East Antarctica Are Waking Up
Published December 11, 2018
Satellites detect changes in the height and velocity of ice in an area that was thought to be relatively stable and quiet.
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Sea Level Rise is Accelerating
Published February 20, 2018
The acceleration has been driven mainly by increased ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, and it has the potential to double the total sea level rise projected by 2100.
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Eastern New Orleans
Published June 12, 2017
Known as the rural side of New Orleans, the landscape is largely marshes and bayous and old European names.
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Water, Water Everywhere
Published January 15, 2017
The Maldives rise just a few meters above the surrounding ocean.
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