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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Miami's Little Haiti has been an immigrant community for decades. Its streets are lined with small homes and colorful shops that cater to the neighborhood, a predominantly Afro-Caribbean population with a median household income well below Miami's. But Little Haiti's character may be changing. A $1 billion…

Researchers from Utah State University and the University of Queensland examine sands from eastern Australia's K'Gari (Fraser Island). Their work sheds new light on the formation of the massive sand island, as well as the Great Barrier Reef. Credit: Utah State University How did the world's largest sand island K'gari, the indigenous name for eastern Australia's Fraser Island, along with the Great Barrier Reef, the world's…

River of meltwater on the Zachariae Glacier, northeast Greenland. Credit: Shfaqat Abbas Khan, DTU SpaceA new study combined GPS, satellite data, and numerical modeling. It found ice loss from northeast Greenland could be six times greater by the end of the century than previously thought.Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland’s melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published in the journal Nature on November 9 indicate that existing models have underestimated…

A report from the Asian Development Bank recommends raising imaginary waterline demarcation for projects in the Asia Pacific region by two metres instead of one metre to improve resilience against sea-level rise. Credit: Neil Andrew/WorldFish (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recommends raising the imaginary waterline demarcation for projects in the Asia Pacific region to two meters, instead of the existing…

As ice sheets and glaciers on Greenland melt and the water is redistributed around the global oceans, sea level does not rise uniformly. New research using high-latitude measurements by satellites confirms computational models that forecast lower sea level around Greenland but higher levels farther away. Credit: Matthew Hoffman Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets pose an increasing threat to coastal…

(a) Sea-level regression resulted in highly restricted hydrographic circulation, increased salinity, depleted seawater RSTE, low sediment Mo/TOC and U/TOC, stably stratified water column and euxinic bottom water, and predominant siliceous mudrock deposition. (b) Sea-level transgression resulted in improved deep-water renewal, normal marine salinity, resupply of seawater RSTE, elevated sediment Mo/TOC and U/TOC, destratification of the water column and…

Researchers have identified an additional process that could have a significant effect on an ice sheet’s future: thawing of the bed, where the ice sheet touches land.Scientists seeking to understand how melting ice in Antarctica will impact the planet’s oceans often use computational modeling. Their recent efforts have focused on ice-sheet geometry, fracture, and surface melting – processes that could potentially trigger or accelerate ice-sheet mass loss. Now, an additional process that could have a similarly significant…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Recent efforts using computational modeling to understand how melting ice in Antarctica will impact the planet's oceans have focused on ice-sheet geometry, fracture, and surface melting—processes that could potentially trigger or accelerate ice-sheet mass loss. Now, researchers from Stanford University have identified an additional process that could have a similarly significant effect on…

University of South Florida geologist Bogdan Onac stands next to preindustrial overgrowths in the Cala Varques cave in Mallorca, Spain. Credit: University of South FloridaA geology professor at the University of South Florida has uncovered the influence of the industrial boom on global warming.The early 1900s were a thrilling moment for people all around the globe, with tremendous breakthroughs in the steel, electric, and car sectors. Industrial developments also represent a tipping point in our climate. The sea level has…

The warming up of the planet and its adverse effects on the life on Earth is the bleak reality today. A recent study has now added to the worries by revealing that warmer water in the ocean is moving towards the East Antarctic ice sheets and is likely to accelerate the rise in global sea level. This, according to experts, will damage the marine life and threaten human coastal settlements. Researchers were familiar with the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet and its contribution to the rising sea-level. However,…