Category Archives: Sea Level Rise

Sinking Islands from The Sierra Club Magazine

from the Sierra Club Magazine for May, 2018 The World’s Sinking Islands Challenge Our Imagination Life on the Maldives and Marshall Islands, at the risky fringes of a warming world PHOTOS BY DAN LIN BY REBECCA SOLNIT | APR 26 … [Read more]

Communities of Action for SDG 14 – “Life Under Water”

UN Launches SDG 14 Communities of Action STORY HIGHLIGHTS To follow-up on outcomes from its World Ocean Conference*, held in June 2017, the UN has launched nine thematic, multi-stakeholder “Communities of Ocean Action”. The communities are meant to generate new … [Read more]

Ocean Conference Addresses MPAs, Ocean Acidification

from the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s (IISD’s) daily coverage of the Ocean Conference 5-9 June 2017. STORY HIGHLIGHTS On the second day of the UN Ocean Conference, two partnership dialogues took place on: (1) managing, protecting, conserving, and restoring marine … [Read more]

Mangroves Can Cope with Sea Level Rise by Increasing Soil Height

[From a post by the Washington Office of IUCN, to the DC Marine Conservation e-mail group]                  30-Jul-2013  A new report by The Nature Conservancy and Wetlands International shows that mangroves can adapt … [Read more]

Sea Level Rise in South Pacific Atolls

Late last year, Dr. Arthur Webb of the Pacific Island Applied Geoscience Commission made a presentation on Atoll shoreline response to sea level rise over the last 50 years – Pingelap & Mokil Atolls, FSM (Federated States of Mictronesia). [Read more]

Sea Level Rise: Important Article in NewScientist, July 2009

These reports are both a good reference, and AN IMPORTANT REMINDER that we need to feature future SEA LEVEL RISE issues in all of our reports. [Read more]