Coastal States Are Preparing The Most For Climate Change: A Study
The Columbia Center for Climate Change Law released a report showing that land-locked states are doing the least to prepare for climate change, while many coastal states vulnerable to sea level rise and storm surges are doing the most to prepare.
Reprieve For Whales At Risk From Oil Platform
Across the globe the world’s most extraordinary places and rare species are coming increasingly under threat from oil and gas exploration activities. In a victory for conservationists, an oil platform planned near the habitat of a critically endangered whale population has been postponed for at least five years.
Sea Level Rise in Metro Miami, Video
Prepared as part of the High Water Line | Miami project/movement, this video depicts sea level rise in greater metropolitan Miami at one-foot intervals, ranging from one foot to ten feet.
Typhoon Haiyan’s Deadly Surge Noted in Warsaw Talks
While Haiyan’s winds have garnered most of the headlines, reports from the hardest-hit areas now indicate that it was likely the massive storm surge that caused the most damage and greatest loss of life, particularly in Tacloban City, a city of 220,000.