Study: Sea Levels In Northeast Jumped By About 4 Inches In Two Years
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Southampton School Board Member Nicholas Palumbo tallied up the votes on Tuesday night. SHAYE WEAVER
Southampton School Board Member Nicholas Palumbo tallied up the votes on Tuesday night. SHAYE WEAVER
on Mar 24, 2015
Even the most dire predictions about global warming, and the accompanying rise in sea levels, estimate that the most severe and observable effects of rising ocean levels will not be... more
Pity the poor horseshoe crab. It is, without question, a survivor almost beyond compare. Consider this: There are fossils of the creature dating back 445 million years. Dinosaurs arrived about 200 million to 250 million years ago — which means the time between us and dinosaurs is equal to the time between dinosaurs and the earliest horseshoe crabs. And they’re still here, nearly unchanged. But they finally may have met their match. The American horseshoe crab has “vulnerable” status, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The population faces a whole series of challenges, including sea-level rise, coupled ...
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on Mar 24, 2015