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Rising Sea Levels Would Hit U.S. East Coast Hardest

Posted by Environmental Leader on 19/11/2009

Miami would become an island city – and Miami Beach an underwater reef – if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea levels by century’s end hold true.Clean Air-Cool Planet presented new climate change models to Senate staffers Nov. 19. The projections are predicate ...

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Rising Currents: Soft infrastructure solutions to rising sea levels

Posted by AditiJ on 17/11/2009

MoMA has collaborated with P.S.1 in order to find solutions to sea level changes that are expected for Manhattan shores. Earlier this year the New York City Panel on Climate Change predicted that global warming could lead to an increase in the level..

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Restore Relics in Charleston morphs trash into treasure

Posted by DeshRaj on 16/11/2009

The renowned Christian housing ministry Habitat for Humanity International has been doing a sterling job in eliminating poverty housing, and conducting other rehabilitation and recycling programs. One of its affiliates, the ReStore is also...

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Greenbuild Conference News Roundup: Day 3

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2009

As the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo wraps up, more than 30,000 attendees are estimated to have attended the job fair or any one of more than 100 educational seminars, 800 exhibitors’ booths or green building tours of Phoenix, reports The Independent. Here are some more highl ...

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US designates key areas of polar bear habitat across Alaska

Posted by AditiJ on 23/10/2009

We have long forgotten the phrase live and let live. It about time we start taking it seriously and show some humanity towards animals. An effort by the U.S. Department of the Interior certainly deserves appreciation. The department has today...

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