Earth`s mantle affects long-term sea-level rise estimates

Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013, 13:57

A Syracuse University researcher has argued that the Earth`s mantle affects long-term sea-level rise estimates.

Sea level change influenced tropical climate during last ice age

Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 15:36

A new study looks to the past to learn about the future of tropical climate change, and our ability to simulate it with numerical models.

Melting glaciers account for third of sea-level rise

Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013, 18:34

World`s shrinking glaciers contributed to almost a third of the sea-level rise between 2003 and 2009, a new study has found.

NASA satellite data reveals glaciers` role in sea level rise

Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013, 10:16

Observations from two NASA satellites have helped scientists resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers worldwide are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise.

Link between CO2 concentrations, sea level discovered

Last Updated: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 15:53

Researchers have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present are systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels.

`Rising sea levels swallowing island nations`

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 19:34

Rising sea level is putting island nations such as Nauru, the world’s smallest independent republic on the verge of disappearing.

Sea level rising 60 percent faster than estimated

Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 19:47

The world`s sea level is rising 60 percent faster than the central projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says a new study.

Sinking Shanghai to draft a new law to stay afloat

Last Updated: Thursday, November 22, 2012, 18:25

Shanghai, China`s biggest city, is literally sinking under the weight of its massive development and the local legislature is finalising a draft plant to halt its slide in order to keep it above the sea level.

Warming temperatures could change Greenland’s face

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 19:53

Increasing global temperature would change the face of Greenland over the next century and this would impact sea level rise, a new study has revealed.

`Sea level rising faster than expected`

Last Updated: Friday, November 2, 2012, 12:58

The sea level is rising faster than expected and may cross one metre mark by the end of this century -- double that of the estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, says a study.

Sea level rise `may pose imminent threat to island nations`

Last Updated: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 19:12

Low-lying island nations that are threatened by the rising sea levels this century could see the disastrous consequences of climate change far sooner than expected, researchers say.