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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for #California
#Ocean phenomenon could raise #sealevels by up to a foot as #ElNiño keeps warm water trapped along coast
#KelvinWaves are not like crashing waves. They are planetary in scale, spanning thousands of miles. When a Kelvin wave kicks off, it brings with it an untold amount of warm water that slowly moves from the western Pacific, along the equator, towards South, Central and North America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/california-kelvin-wave -
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for #California
#Ocean phenomenon could raise #sealevels by up to a foot as #ElNiño keeps warm water trapped along coast
#KelvinWaves are not like crashing waves. They are planetary in scale, spanning thousands of miles. When a Kelvin wave kicks off, it brings with it an untold amount of warm water that slowly moves from the western Pacific, along the equator, towards South, Central and North America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/california-kelvin-wave -
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for #California
#Ocean phenomenon could raise #sealevels by up to a foot as #ElNiño keeps warm water trapped along coast
#KelvinWaves are not like crashing waves. They are planetary in scale, spanning thousands of miles. When a Kelvin wave kicks off, it brings with it an untold amount of warm water that slowly moves from the western Pacific, along the equator, towards South, Central and North America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/california-kelvin-wave -
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for #California
#Ocean phenomenon could raise #sealevels by up to a foot as #ElNiño keeps warm water trapped along coast
#KelvinWaves are not like crashing waves. They are planetary in scale, spanning thousands of miles. When a Kelvin wave kicks off, it brings with it an untold amount of warm water that slowly moves from the western Pacific, along the equator, towards South, Central and North America.
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Nearly 250,000 Australian Homes Face Threat from Rising Sea Levels, Report Reveals
📰 Original title: Hundreds of thousands of Aussie homes at risk from rising sea levels
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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#ExtremeHeat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists
By Eric Roston and Hayley Warren, July 6, 2026
"Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and prompting the cancellation of many events. Washington, DC, saw a high of 102F (39C) on Saturday, a new local record for the date. In Europe, punishing temperatures are set to return days after a deadly heat wave pushed thermometers as high as 43.8C (111F) in #France. A troubling pattern has emerged in this summer’s heat: Not only has it broken records, it’s done so often by margins far above the previous all-time highs.
"These heat jumps are part of a larger shift of #ClimateChange seeming to accelerate. #OceanTemperatures just reached a new high for the early summer. #SeaLevels are rising faster than before, while new records for daily rainfall are being set at a rapid clip. The pace of #GlobalWarming itself has quickened in recent years.
"While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them.
"Today’s climate can 'seem like an unexpected step change' from that of a few years ago, said atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University.
"Climate models from decades ago have proved prescient, closely aligning with what the mercury later showed: heat increasing around the planet, caused primarily by humans burning #fossilfuels ."
Read more [includes charts and graphics]:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-extreme-heat-climate-change-data/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2qtS2#CopernicusEarth #ClimateCrisis #ExxonKnew #FossilFools #Oiligarchy #Capitalism #CorporateGreed #ClimateDiary #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeHeat
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#ExtremeHeat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists
By Eric Roston and Hayley Warren, July 6, 2026
"Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and prompting the cancellation of many events. Washington, DC, saw a high of 102F (39C) on Saturday, a new local record for the date. In Europe, punishing temperatures are set to return days after a deadly heat wave pushed thermometers as high as 43.8C (111F) in #France. A troubling pattern has emerged in this summer’s heat: Not only has it broken records, it’s done so often by margins far above the previous all-time highs.
"These heat jumps are part of a larger shift of #ClimateChange seeming to accelerate. #OceanTemperatures just reached a new high for the early summer. #SeaLevels are rising faster than before, while new records for daily rainfall are being set at a rapid clip. The pace of #GlobalWarming itself has quickened in recent years.
"While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them.
"Today’s climate can 'seem like an unexpected step change' from that of a few years ago, said atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University.
"Climate models from decades ago have proved prescient, closely aligning with what the mercury later showed: heat increasing around the planet, caused primarily by humans burning #fossilfuels ."
Read more [includes charts and graphics]:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-extreme-heat-climate-change-data/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2qtS2#CopernicusEarth #ClimateCrisis #ExxonKnew #FossilFools #Oiligarchy #Capitalism #CorporateGreed #ClimateDiary #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeHeat
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#ExtremeHeat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists
By Eric Roston and Hayley Warren, July 6, 2026
"Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and prompting the cancellation of many events. Washington, DC, saw a high of 102F (39C) on Saturday, a new local record for the date. In Europe, punishing temperatures are set to return days after a deadly heat wave pushed thermometers as high as 43.8C (111F) in #France. A troubling pattern has emerged in this summer’s heat: Not only has it broken records, it’s done so often by margins far above the previous all-time highs.
"These heat jumps are part of a larger shift of #ClimateChange seeming to accelerate. #OceanTemperatures just reached a new high for the early summer. #SeaLevels are rising faster than before, while new records for daily rainfall are being set at a rapid clip. The pace of #GlobalWarming itself has quickened in recent years.
"While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them.
"Today’s climate can 'seem like an unexpected step change' from that of a few years ago, said atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University.
"Climate models from decades ago have proved prescient, closely aligning with what the mercury later showed: heat increasing around the planet, caused primarily by humans burning #fossilfuels ."
Read more [includes charts and graphics]:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-extreme-heat-climate-change-data/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2qtS2#CopernicusEarth #ClimateCrisis #ExxonKnew #FossilFools #Oiligarchy #Capitalism #CorporateGreed #ClimateDiary #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeHeat
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#ExtremeHeat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists
By Eric Roston and Hayley Warren, July 6, 2026
"Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and prompting the cancellation of many events. Washington, DC, saw a high of 102F (39C) on Saturday, a new local record for the date. In Europe, punishing temperatures are set to return days after a deadly heat wave pushed thermometers as high as 43.8C (111F) in #France. A troubling pattern has emerged in this summer’s heat: Not only has it broken records, it’s done so often by margins far above the previous all-time highs.
"These heat jumps are part of a larger shift of #ClimateChange seeming to accelerate. #OceanTemperatures just reached a new high for the early summer. #SeaLevels are rising faster than before, while new records for daily rainfall are being set at a rapid clip. The pace of #GlobalWarming itself has quickened in recent years.
"While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them.
"Today’s climate can 'seem like an unexpected step change' from that of a few years ago, said atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University.
"Climate models from decades ago have proved prescient, closely aligning with what the mercury later showed: heat increasing around the planet, caused primarily by humans burning #fossilfuels ."
Read more [includes charts and graphics]:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-extreme-heat-climate-change-data/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2qtS2#CopernicusEarth #ClimateCrisis #ExxonKnew #FossilFools #Oiligarchy #Capitalism #CorporateGreed #ClimateDiary #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeHeat
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The Ocean Has a ‘Fever.’ These Are the Symptoms
The Pacific isn’t just warm right now; scientists say a giant swath of it is in a…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #California #Climatechange #extremeweather #Headlines #heatdome #heatwave #PacificOcean #sealevels #TopStories #typhoon #westernUnitedStates #Wildfires
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The Ocean Has a ‘Fever.’ These Are the Symptoms
The Pacific isn’t just warm right now; scientists say a giant swath of it is in a…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #California #Climatechange #extremeweather #Headlines #heatdome #heatwave #PacificOcean #sealevels #TopStories #typhoon #westernUnitedStates #Wildfires
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Biscayne Bay Is Slowly Becoming the Ocean
In the shadow of Miami’s skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, juvenile great hammerhead…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #aquifers #climatechange #Miami #Science #Sealevelrise #sealevels #sharks
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Biscayne Bay Is Slowly Becoming the Ocean
In the shadow of Miami’s skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, juvenile great hammerhead…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #aquifers #climatechange #Miami #Science #Sealevelrise #sealevels #sharks
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Biscayne Bay Is Slowly Becoming the Ocean
In the shadow of Miami’s skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, juvenile great hammerhead…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #aquifers #climatechange #Miami #Science #Sealevelrise #sealevels #sharks
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Global Warming Is Tinkering With Time
You can’t feel it, but Earth’s spin is easing off the gas. The Wall Street Journal reports the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Climate #Fossils #meltingice #sealevels
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Global Warming Is Tinkering With Time
You can’t feel it, but Earth’s spin is easing off the gas. The Wall Street Journal reports the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Climate #Fossils #meltingice #sealevels
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Mangrove Forests Fight Climate Change—But Climate Change Is Fighting Back
Mangrove forests have adapted over tens of millions of years to survive in harsh flooding from salty seas,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #coastalerosion. #Flooding #Floods #mangrove #mangroves #ocean #oceans #Science #Sealevelrise #sealevels
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/688723/ -
Mangrove Forests Fight Climate Change—But Climate Change Is Fighting Back
Mangrove forests have adapted over tens of millions of years to survive in harsh flooding from salty seas,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #coastalerosion. #Flooding #Floods #mangrove #mangroves #ocean #oceans #Science #Sealevelrise #sealevels
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Global sea level rise threatens 77-132 million people with inundation
As the earth heats up due to the massive, ongoing anthropogenic (human-caused) release of greenhouse gases, the world’s…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #coastalinundation #environment #globalwarming #Science #sealevels #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Global sea level rise threatens 77-132 million people with inundation
As the earth heats up due to the massive, ongoing anthropogenic (human-caused) release of greenhouse gases, the world’s…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #coastalinundation #environment #globalwarming #Science #sealevels #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Global sea level rise threatens 77-132 million people with inundation
As the earth heats up due to the massive, ongoing anthropogenic (human-caused) release of greenhouse gases, the world’s…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Climatechange #coastalinundation #globalwarming #Science #sealevels
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Global sea level rise threatens 77-132 million people with inundation
As the earth heats up due to the massive, ongoing anthropogenic (human-caused) release of greenhouse gases, the world’s…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Climatechange #coastalinundation #globalwarming #Science #sealevels
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/517732/ Global sea level rise threatens 77-132 million people with inundation #ClimateChange #CoastalInundation #Éire #Environment #GlobalWarming #IE #Ireland #Science #SeaLevels
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Global sea level rise threatens 77-132 million people with inundation https://www.byteseu.com/2070169/ #Climate #ClimateChange #CoastalInundation #GlobalWarming #SeaLevels
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Global sea level rise threatens 77-132 million people with inundation
As the earth heats up due to the massive, ongoing anthropogenic (human-caused) release of greenhouse gases, the world’s…
#Climate #ClimateChange #Climate-Change #climatechange #coastalinundation #globalwarming #sealevels
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As Seas Rise, Louisiana Faces a Choice: Plan for Movement or Let Crisis Decide
The shoreline of Louisiana has never been still or fixed, though recent generations have treated it as such.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatemigration #CoastalAdaptation #CoastalCities #coastalerosion. #coastalresilience #erosion #Flooding #Floods #Gulfcoast #hurricanes #Louisiana #Migration #Science #Sealevelrise #sealevels
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Scientists say they’ve finally solved the sea level rise mystery as oceans climb nearly twice as fast
Scientists say they have finally explained a long-running sea-level rise mystery, tracing nearly all of the ocean’s rise…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #2millimeters #oceanwarming #scientists #Sealevelrise #sealevels
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/668970/ -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/505887/ Scientists say they’ve finally solved the sea level rise mystery as oceans climb nearly twice as fast #2Millimeters #Éire #Environment #IE #Ireland #OceanWarming #Science #Scientists #SeaLevelRise #SeaLevels
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7-May-2026
Rapidly melting #Antarctic ice shelves may cause global #seaLevels to rise far faster than expected – new study
Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than expectedhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127097
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7-May-2026
Rapidly melting #Antarctic ice shelves may cause global #seaLevels to rise far faster than expected – new study
Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than expectedhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127097
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7-May-2026
Rapidly melting #Antarctic ice shelves may cause global #seaLevels to rise far faster than expected – new study
Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than expectedhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127097
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7-May-2026
Rapidly melting #Antarctic ice shelves may cause global #seaLevels to rise far faster than expected – new study
Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than expectedhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127097
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Between land and water: Tribal relocation and resistance
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Published April 6, 2026"#ClimateChange is altering the land, and #Indigenous communities are on the frontline. This episode takes you to #Alaska, where rapid permafrost thaw is threatening the Native village of #Nunapitchuk. Then, we head to #Louisiana, where the #PointeAuChien Indian Tribe is losing its land to rising #SeaLevels. These tribes are forced to make a difficult decision between staying and adapting or leaving their ancestral homes. (This episode comes to us from the environmental podcast #SeaChange.)"
Listen:
https://www.kcur.org/2026-04-06/between-land-and-water-tribal-relocation-and-resistance#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousCommunities #ClimateChangeAdaptation #SeaLevelRise #AncestralLands #ClimateCrisis #KCUR
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Between land and water: Tribal relocation and resistance
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Published April 6, 2026"#ClimateChange is altering the land, and #Indigenous communities are on the frontline. This episode takes you to #Alaska, where rapid permafrost thaw is threatening the Native village of #Nunapitchuk. Then, we head to #Louisiana, where the #PointeAuChien Indian Tribe is losing its land to rising #SeaLevels. These tribes are forced to make a difficult decision between staying and adapting or leaving their ancestral homes. (This episode comes to us from the environmental podcast #SeaChange.)"
Listen:
https://www.kcur.org/2026-04-06/between-land-and-water-tribal-relocation-and-resistance#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousCommunities #ClimateChangeAdaptation #SeaLevelRise #AncestralLands #ClimateCrisis #KCUR
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Between land and water: Tribal relocation and resistance
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Published April 6, 2026"#ClimateChange is altering the land, and #Indigenous communities are on the frontline. This episode takes you to #Alaska, where rapid permafrost thaw is threatening the Native village of #Nunapitchuk. Then, we head to #Louisiana, where the #PointeAuChien Indian Tribe is losing its land to rising #SeaLevels. These tribes are forced to make a difficult decision between staying and adapting or leaving their ancestral homes. (This episode comes to us from the environmental podcast #SeaChange.)"
Listen:
https://www.kcur.org/2026-04-06/between-land-and-water-tribal-relocation-and-resistance#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousCommunities #ClimateChangeAdaptation #SeaLevelRise #AncestralLands #ClimateCrisis #KCUR
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Between land and water: Tribal relocation and resistance
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Published April 6, 2026"#ClimateChange is altering the land, and #Indigenous communities are on the frontline. This episode takes you to #Alaska, where rapid permafrost thaw is threatening the Native village of #Nunapitchuk. Then, we head to #Louisiana, where the #PointeAuChien Indian Tribe is losing its land to rising #SeaLevels. These tribes are forced to make a difficult decision between staying and adapting or leaving their ancestral homes. (This episode comes to us from the environmental podcast #SeaChange.)"
Listen:
https://www.kcur.org/2026-04-06/between-land-and-water-tribal-relocation-and-resistance#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousCommunities #ClimateChangeAdaptation #SeaLevelRise #AncestralLands #ClimateCrisis #KCUR
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#Louisiana has lost about 2,000 square miles of land to #coastal #erosion since the 1930s—a land mass about the size of Delaware.
#PlaqueminesParish, the state’s southernmost parish, juts into the water where the #MississippiRiver meets the #GulfOfMexico. The parish, which is crisscrossed with #oil & #gas canals, has already lost nearly half of its size in the last century as #SeaLevels rise because of #ClimateChange.
#law #environment #PublicHealth #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #money
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#Louisiana has lost about 2,000 square miles of land to #coastal #erosion since the 1930s—a land mass about the size of Delaware.
#PlaqueminesParish, the state’s southernmost parish, juts into the water where the #MississippiRiver meets the #GulfOfMexico. The parish, which is crisscrossed with #oil & #gas canals, has already lost nearly half of its size in the last century as #SeaLevels rise because of #ClimateChange.
#law #environment #PublicHealth #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #money
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#Louisiana has lost about 2,000 square miles of land to #coastal #erosion since the 1930s—a land mass about the size of Delaware.
#PlaqueminesParish, the state’s southernmost parish, juts into the water where the #MississippiRiver meets the #GulfOfMexico. The parish, which is crisscrossed with #oil & #gas canals, has already lost nearly half of its size in the last century as #SeaLevels rise because of #ClimateChange.
#law #environment #PublicHealth #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #money
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#Louisiana has lost about 2,000 square miles of land to #coastal #erosion since the 1930s—a land mass about the size of Delaware.
#PlaqueminesParish, the state’s southernmost parish, juts into the water where the #MississippiRiver meets the #GulfOfMexico. The parish, which is crisscrossed with #oil & #gas canals, has already lost nearly half of its size in the last century as #SeaLevels rise because of #ClimateChange.
#law #environment #PublicHealth #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #money
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A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View
Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.
By Fred Pearce • April 9, 2026
Excerpt: "The other new study focused on the world’s #RiverDeltas. It has long been known that many #deltas are sinking under the influence of #Groundwater pumping. But as Robert Nicholls, climate adaptation researcher at the University of East Anglia, notes, 'There have been lots of different estimates.' Data were inconsistent and based on crude, delta-wide estimates. 'Now at last we have a consistent data set, with high spatial resolution.'
"That data comes from Leonard Ohenhen, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who used satellite-mounted radar to produce 3D maps of subsidence on 40 of the world’s biggest and most populous river deltas. He has found that subsidence afflicts more than half those deltas. Most startlingly, in 18 cases subsidence rates exceed those of #RisingTides — hence, more than doubling the effective yearly rise in local sea levels, and in some cases multiplying it tenfold.
"This again puts tens of millions of people once thought safe from rising tides this century in imminent harm’s way, including those living on the deltas of the #Nile in #Egypt, the #Mekong in #Vietnam, the #Mahanadi in #India, and the #YellowRiver in #China. If the current rate of subsidence persists, these areas will be flooded much sooner than thought.
"Researchers say many deltas and other low-lying coastal areas not included in the two studies are at greater risk than believed and urgently require detailed investigation of both actual sea levels and the rate of land subsidence."
Read more:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/sea-level-rise-land-subsidence#SeaLevelRise #Subsidience #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevels #RiverDeltas #GroundwaterExtraction #BigWater
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A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View
Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.
By Fred Pearce • April 9, 2026
Excerpt: "The other new study focused on the world’s #RiverDeltas. It has long been known that many #deltas are sinking under the influence of #Groundwater pumping. But as Robert Nicholls, climate adaptation researcher at the University of East Anglia, notes, 'There have been lots of different estimates.' Data were inconsistent and based on crude, delta-wide estimates. 'Now at last we have a consistent data set, with high spatial resolution.'
"That data comes from Leonard Ohenhen, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who used satellite-mounted radar to produce 3D maps of subsidence on 40 of the world’s biggest and most populous river deltas. He has found that subsidence afflicts more than half those deltas. Most startlingly, in 18 cases subsidence rates exceed those of #RisingTides — hence, more than doubling the effective yearly rise in local sea levels, and in some cases multiplying it tenfold.
"This again puts tens of millions of people once thought safe from rising tides this century in imminent harm’s way, including those living on the deltas of the #Nile in #Egypt, the #Mekong in #Vietnam, the #Mahanadi in #India, and the #YellowRiver in #China. If the current rate of subsidence persists, these areas will be flooded much sooner than thought.
"Researchers say many deltas and other low-lying coastal areas not included in the two studies are at greater risk than believed and urgently require detailed investigation of both actual sea levels and the rate of land subsidence."
Read more:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/sea-level-rise-land-subsidence#SeaLevelRise #Subsidience #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevels #RiverDeltas #GroundwaterExtraction #BigWater
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A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View
Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.
By Fred Pearce • April 9, 2026
Excerpt: "The other new study focused on the world’s #RiverDeltas. It has long been known that many #deltas are sinking under the influence of #Groundwater pumping. But as Robert Nicholls, climate adaptation researcher at the University of East Anglia, notes, 'There have been lots of different estimates.' Data were inconsistent and based on crude, delta-wide estimates. 'Now at last we have a consistent data set, with high spatial resolution.'
"That data comes from Leonard Ohenhen, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who used satellite-mounted radar to produce 3D maps of subsidence on 40 of the world’s biggest and most populous river deltas. He has found that subsidence afflicts more than half those deltas. Most startlingly, in 18 cases subsidence rates exceed those of #RisingTides — hence, more than doubling the effective yearly rise in local sea levels, and in some cases multiplying it tenfold.
"This again puts tens of millions of people once thought safe from rising tides this century in imminent harm’s way, including those living on the deltas of the #Nile in #Egypt, the #Mekong in #Vietnam, the #Mahanadi in #India, and the #YellowRiver in #China. If the current rate of subsidence persists, these areas will be flooded much sooner than thought.
"Researchers say many deltas and other low-lying coastal areas not included in the two studies are at greater risk than believed and urgently require detailed investigation of both actual sea levels and the rate of land subsidence."
Read more:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/sea-level-rise-land-subsidence#SeaLevelRise #Subsidience #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevels #RiverDeltas #GroundwaterExtraction #BigWater
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A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View
Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.
By Fred Pearce • April 9, 2026
Excerpt: "The other new study focused on the world’s #RiverDeltas. It has long been known that many #deltas are sinking under the influence of #Groundwater pumping. But as Robert Nicholls, climate adaptation researcher at the University of East Anglia, notes, 'There have been lots of different estimates.' Data were inconsistent and based on crude, delta-wide estimates. 'Now at last we have a consistent data set, with high spatial resolution.'
"That data comes from Leonard Ohenhen, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who used satellite-mounted radar to produce 3D maps of subsidence on 40 of the world’s biggest and most populous river deltas. He has found that subsidence afflicts more than half those deltas. Most startlingly, in 18 cases subsidence rates exceed those of #RisingTides — hence, more than doubling the effective yearly rise in local sea levels, and in some cases multiplying it tenfold.
"This again puts tens of millions of people once thought safe from rising tides this century in imminent harm’s way, including those living on the deltas of the #Nile in #Egypt, the #Mekong in #Vietnam, the #Mahanadi in #India, and the #YellowRiver in #China. If the current rate of subsidence persists, these areas will be flooded much sooner than thought.
"Researchers say many deltas and other low-lying coastal areas not included in the two studies are at greater risk than believed and urgently require detailed investigation of both actual sea levels and the rate of land subsidence."
Read more:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/sea-level-rise-land-subsidence#SeaLevelRise #Subsidience #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevels #RiverDeltas #GroundwaterExtraction #BigWater
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Inside the race to understand Greenland’s ‘climate tipping point’.
An international team of scientists is determined to understand just how quickly Greenland’s melting glaciers are pushing the Atlantic Ocean towards a “critical climate tipping point”.
They’ll also trial a prototype ‘Early Warning System’ for glacier change in Greenland, as ice melt continues to accelerate.
#ClimateChange #Greenland #Icebergs #SeaLevels #GlobalWarming #Glaciers #AtlanticOcean #Science
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Inside the race to understand Greenland’s ‘climate tipping point’.
An international team of scientists is determined to understand just how quickly Greenland’s melting glaciers are pushing the Atlantic Ocean towards a “critical climate tipping point”.
They’ll also trial a prototype ‘Early Warning System’ for glacier change in Greenland, as ice melt continues to accelerate.
#ClimateChange #Greenland #Icebergs #SeaLevels #GlobalWarming #Glaciers #AtlanticOcean #Science
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Inside the race to understand Greenland’s ‘climate tipping point’.
An international team of scientists is determined to understand just how quickly Greenland’s melting glaciers are pushing the Atlantic Ocean towards a “critical climate tipping point”.
They’ll also trial a prototype ‘Early Warning System’ for glacier change in Greenland, as ice melt continues to accelerate.
#ClimateChange #Greenland #Icebergs #SeaLevels #GlobalWarming #Glaciers #AtlanticOcean #Science
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Inside the race to understand Greenland’s ‘climate tipping point’.
An international team of scientists is determined to understand just how quickly Greenland’s melting glaciers are pushing the Atlantic Ocean towards a “critical climate tipping point”.
They’ll also trial a prototype ‘Early Warning System’ for glacier change in Greenland, as ice melt continues to accelerate.
#ClimateChange #Greenland #Icebergs #SeaLevels #GlobalWarming #Glaciers #AtlanticOcean #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/32978/ Greenland Is Feeling Climate Change Differently Than Most Places #ClimateChange #Greenland #IceSheets #MeltingGlaciers #RelativeSeaLevel #RisingSeaLevels #SeaLevel #SeaLevels
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#SeaLevels Are Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows
Coastal sea levels are, on average, eight inches to a foot higher than these scientific studies and maps indicate worldwide, research found
The discrepancies are much bigger in certain regions, like Southeast Asia and Pacific nations, where #ocean dynamics are more complex. There, coastal sea levels are up to several meters higher than commonly estimated
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
https://archive.is/20260304160918/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
#sealevelrise #climatechange -
#SeaLevels Are Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows
Coastal sea levels are, on average, eight inches to a foot higher than these scientific studies and maps indicate worldwide, research found
The discrepancies are much bigger in certain regions, like Southeast Asia and Pacific nations, where #ocean dynamics are more complex. There, coastal sea levels are up to several meters higher than commonly estimated
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
https://archive.is/20260304160918/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
#sealevelrise #climatechange -
#SeaLevels Are Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows
Coastal sea levels are, on average, eight inches to a foot higher than these scientific studies and maps indicate worldwide, research found
The discrepancies are much bigger in certain regions, like Southeast Asia and Pacific nations, where #ocean dynamics are more complex. There, coastal sea levels are up to several meters higher than commonly estimated
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
https://archive.is/20260304160918/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
#sealevelrise #climatechange -
#SeaLevels Are Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows
Coastal sea levels are, on average, eight inches to a foot higher than these scientific studies and maps indicate worldwide, research found
The discrepancies are much bigger in certain regions, like Southeast Asia and Pacific nations, where #ocean dynamics are more complex. There, coastal sea levels are up to several meters higher than commonly estimated
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
https://archive.is/20260304160918/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/sea-level-underestimated.html
#sealevelrise #climatechange -
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: massive, sometimes abrupt, and undoubtedly disruptive. A much less habitable state of the climate for us.
"The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said."
"The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed."
“We know we are running profound risks on the current climate trajectory, which we can’t rule out could turn into a trajectory towards a much less habitable state of the climate for us. " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points
#FossilFuels #climate #HothouseEarth #AMOC #cryosphere #SeaLevels #habitability -
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: massive, sometimes abrupt, and undoubtedly disruptive. A much less habitable state of the climate for us.
"The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said."
"The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed."
“We know we are running profound risks on the current climate trajectory, which we can’t rule out could turn into a trajectory towards a much less habitable state of the climate for us. " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points
#FossilFuels #climate #HothouseEarth #AMOC #cryosphere #SeaLevels #habitability -
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: massive, sometimes abrupt, and undoubtedly disruptive. A much less habitable state of the climate for us.
"The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said."
"The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed."
“We know we are running profound risks on the current climate trajectory, which we can’t rule out could turn into a trajectory towards a much less habitable state of the climate for us. " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points
#FossilFuels #climate #HothouseEarth #AMOC #cryosphere #SeaLevels #habitability -
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: massive, sometimes abrupt, and undoubtedly disruptive. A much less habitable state of the climate for us.
"The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said."
"The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed."
“We know we are running profound risks on the current climate trajectory, which we can’t rule out could turn into a trajectory towards a much less habitable state of the climate for us. " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points
#FossilFuels #climate #HothouseEarth #AMOC #cryosphere #SeaLevels #habitability -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/324820/ Scientists make concerning discovery while studying ocean hidden under ice — here are the details #Éire #IceShelf #IE #Ireland #OceanTemperature #PolarIce #RossIceShelf #Science #SeaLevels
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/320773/ ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than we thought. Can a 150-metre wall stop it flooding Earth? #DoomsdayGlacier #Éire #Environment #IE #Ireland #Science #SeaLevelRise #SeaLevels #ThwaitesGlacier #WarmOceanWaters #WestAntarcticIceSheet
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/742145/ ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than we thought. Can a 150-metre wall stop it flooding Earth? #DoomsdayGlacier #Science #SeaLevelRise #SeaLevels #ThwaitesGlacier #UK #UnitedKingdom #WarmOceanWaters #WestAntarcticIceSheet