Tag: Rising sea levels
Charleston weighs wall as seas rise and storms strengthen
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Vickie Hicks, who weaves intricate sweetgrass baskets in Charleston, South Carolina's historic city market, remembers climbing onto the table at...
US-European ocean monitoring satellite launches into orbit
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface heights was launched into...
Europe, US ‘climate guardian’ satellite to monitor oceans
BERLIN (AP) — A "climate guardian" satellite set for launching this weekend will greatly help scientists keep track of the rise in sea levels,...
US formally exits Paris pact aiming to curb climate change
BERLIN (AP) — The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact it helped forge five years ago to avert...
Elusive eastern black rail threatened by rising sea levels
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Eastern black rail a threatened species on Wednesday, but stopped short of the stronger protections some...
Leaders to UN: If virus doesn’t kill us, climate change will
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning:...
Greta Thunberg and youth climate protests make a return
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg is back. She joined fellow demonstrators outside the Swedish Parliament on Friday to kick off a...
Close call with storm renews debate over Houston barrier
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Houston, a Gulf Coast city that barely rises above sea level, has long worried about a worst-case weather scenario —...
Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019
Greenland lost a record...
Experts find early ocher mine in Mexican underwater caves
MEXICO CITY (AP) —...
