The Muldrow Glacier, on the north side of Denali in Alaska, is undergoing a rare surge. In the past few months the 39-mile-long river of ice has been moving as much as 90 feet a day, 100 times its usual speed.
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Climate Change | Erosion | Sea Level Rise
US climate research outpost abandoned over fears it will fall into sea
Twice a day for the past half a century, a weather balloon to measure atmospheric conditions was released from a research station situated on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Faced with advancing seas that are set to devour it, the outpost has now been abandoned.
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Climate Change | Erosion | Sea Level Rise
Sea-level rise is creating ‘ghost forests’ on an American coast
In coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass is lined with dead or dying trees.
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Climate Change
Greenland ice sheet on course to lose ice at fastest rate in 12,000 years, study finds
The Greenland ice sheet is on track to lose mass at about four times the fastest rate observed over the past 12,000 years.
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Climate Change
California’s Pacific Coast Highway is falling into the ocean. Is this the end of the road for one of America’s most scenic drives?
The PCH’s days are numbered, Griggs said. It’s “inevitable” one day the fixes and repairs won’t be enough or will be too costly to save the highway.
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The Atlantic Ocean circulation that underpins the Gulf Stream, the weather system that brings warm and mild weather to Europe, is at its weakest in more than a millennium, and climate breakdown is the probable cause…
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…restoring whale populations to their pre-whaling numbers could be an important tool in tackling climate change…
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Beach Maintenance | Climate Change
How travelers help to protect the Outer Islands of the Seychelles
There are few places in the world as beautiful, or as vulnerable as the Outer Islands of Seychelles.
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Rebuild or Leave ‘Paradise’: Climate Change Dilemma Facing a Nicaraguan Coastal Town
Two major November hurricanes slammed into the same part of Nicaraguan coast, laying waste to the Miskito village of Haulover. Faced with a future of intensifying storms, the residents must now consider whether to abandon their way of life by the ocean and move inland.
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