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Sea-level rise threatens 311, 000 US homes
About 311,000 coastal homes across the United States with a collective market value of about $120 billion in today's dollars are at risk of chronic flooding by 2045, a report issued yesterday by the Union of Concerned ...
- June 19, 2018
China faces consequences for intimidation, US warns
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says China’s placement of weapons systems on man-made islands in the South China Sea is designed to intimidate and coerce other countries in the region. Laying out a sharp criticism of ...
- June 3, 2018
US coastline to rise 30 cm by 2050
The US coastline is expected to experience up to a foot (30 centimeters) of sea-level rise by the year 2050 because of climate change, making damaging floods far more common than today, a US government study said Tuesday ...
- February 17, 2022
US defense chief warns of conflict in disputed sea
SIMI VALLEY, United States: US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) that land reclamation efforts and a military build-up in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) could lead to conflict ...
- November 9, 2015
Setback for the Great Barrier Reef
Australia’s plan to rescue the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef has been set back at least two decades after the fragile ecosystem suffered its worst-ever bleaching last year, experts said Friday. The vast coral reef―which ...
- February 25, 2017
'Deepest shipwreck': US WWII ship found off Samar
A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 metres below sea level off the Philippines, making it the world's deepest shipwreck ever located, an American exploration team said. The USS Samuel ...
- June 26, 2022
Climate debate takes global pulse before summit
From the typhoon-ravaged Philippines to the Arizona desert, thousands of people began gathering Saturday, June 6 in small groups in 79 countries for what was touted as the biggest public debate on climate change. Results ...
- June 8, 2015
Climate change affects whales
The sight of thousands of whales surfacing, jumping and playing off the coast of South America as they migrate toward their breeding grounds is one of nature’s most majestic displays. But global warming is killing off their ...
- December 3, 2015
AFP chief to increase sea patrols
The new Armed Forces of the Philippines chief said Tuesday he would increase patrols in contested waters due to what he described as an "alarming" China law that allows its Coast Guard to at foreign vessels and tear down ...
- February 10, 2021
1 M species risk extinction due to humns - draft UN report
Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report obtained by Agence France-Presse that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which ...
- April 27, 2019