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Global warming won't affect all deltas

Rising sea levels could submerge Mississippi Delta but leave other systems intact. Richard A. Lovett for Nature Whether river deltas become swamped by rising sea levels will depend on a multitude of factors, including the type of soil and the tectonic action of any nearby plates, say researchers. “In coastal systems we have to think [...]

Report says climate change is adding to migration

From AP and posted on Google News Researchers questioned more than 2,000 migrants in 23 countries about why they moved, said Koko Warner of the U.N. University, which conducted the study with CARE International. The results were “a clear signal” that environmental stress already is causing population shifts, she said, and it could be “a [...]

How to save the world's river deltas

From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Charles J. Vörösmarty’s entry in the Bulletin’s March/April 2009 edition The fragility of the world’s deltas is not solely a consequence of rising ocean waters. Human fresh water use is a predominant force behind receding coastlines. From the condensed web version… The world’s coastlines are highly dynamic landforms, [...]

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