Disputed island lost to the sea - Central & South Asia A tiny island claimed for nearly 30 years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say. The uninhabited territory south of the Hariabhanga river was known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, the School of Oceanographic Studies in Calcutta said. New Moore Island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, Sugata Hazra, oceanographer and professor of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University in Calcutta, said. "What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming," he said. Anyone wishing to visit now, he observed, would have to think of travelling by submarine. Rising sea levels At least 10 other islands in the area were at risk as well, Hazra said.
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Rising waters threaten Nile Delta - Focus Deep inside the waterways of the Nile Delta, it is hard to believe that this region is in an environmental crisis. It is an idyllic setting as the canoes of fishermen drift through the swamps; kingfishers and egrets fly overhead, and reeds glisten in the early morning sunshine. But the fishermen are not happy. They say their catches are down, and that the water is more and more polluted from nearby factories. There is certainly enormous pressure on the Delta's resources; most of Egypt's 80 million people are crammed into this fertile, green landscape, where the Nile ends its epic journey half the length of Africa, and fans out into a series of tributaries and lakes, before flowing into the Mediterranean. I ask the fishermen if they know about global warming, and the threat to the Delta posed by the possibility of sea-levels rising. We leave the fishermen, and drive north, closer to the Mediterranean coastline. Rising salinity levels Alexandria threatened? "But now, those days are over."
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Newsroom : Study finds CO2 behind ancient global warming event Study finds CO2 behind ancient global warming event [Date: 2010-11-23] A global warming event of the Middle Eocene period 40 million years ago was triggered by increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, new EU-funded research shows. This latest study was funded in part by the DINOPRO ('From Protist to proxy: dinoflagellates as signal carriers for climate and carbon cycling during past and present extreme climate transitions') project, which clinched a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth EUR 1.5 million under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to develop and apply a sophisticated method for the integrated reconstruction of past changes in carbon cycling and climate change. Experts agree that our planet warmed up for a short time, disrupting the long-term cooling that had been in progress for 10 million years. The finding also adds weight to much speculation about the use of existing climate models. For more information, please visit:
Molecular Workbench - An Interface to the Molecular World Ben Strauss on Rising Seas & the Fate of New York on PBS By Climate Central Ben Strauss, COO of Climate Central and director of our program on sea level rise, appeared on PBS NewsHour to discuss the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, as well as the long-term challenges that sea level rise poses to coastal cities such as New York. Related Content Sea Level Rise: Floods Threaten Coastal U.S. Rising Seas a Real Threat to New Jersey Senate Hearing Focuses on Threat of Sea Level Rise Sea Level Rise Threatens Hundreds of U.S. Energy Facilities
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