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a view of the seacoast
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Sea Levels on the Move

 Through the use of satellites and land survey tools, scientists are learning about...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:36
Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.
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Climate Change

 Today, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in our atmosphere are the highest they've been...
A summertime channel carries melted ice to the sea. Antarctica and Greenland lose around 350 billion tons of ice each year from such melting.
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Ice Melt at the Poles

 It’s confirmed: both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice—around 350 billion...
On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late 1970s.
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Ice Melt in Iceland

 On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late...
To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San Diego Sediment Research Group) studied the environmental impact of dredging sediment from the waterways.
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Saving Venice, Italy

 To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San...