Preparing for the flood: Visualisations help communities plan for sea level rise

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‘Gravity is climate’: 10 years of climate research satellites GRACE

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 04:53 PM PDT

For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland can now be measured with high accuracy from space. A new sharp image also renders the spatial distribution of the glacial melt more precisely.

Overfishing leaves swaths of Mediterranean barren

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:09 PM PST

Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources — as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea — have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren places, an unprecedented study of the Mediterranean concludes.

Preparing for the flood: Visualizations help communities plan for sea-level rise

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:08 AM PST

Researchers have produced computer visualizations of rising sea levels in a low-lying coastal municipality, illustrating ways to adapt to climate change impacts such as flooding and storms surges.
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