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Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes

Grist

All that rain is significant because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet — like the melting of other glaciers around the world — is one of the most important drivers of sea level rise. Read Next Can the ‘sand motor’ save West Africa’s eroding coast?

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. It ranges from 10 percent of GDP in advanced economies to more than 30 percent in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

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28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

Green Market Oracle

Read more » Remembering Berta on International Women's Day On International Women's Day 2016 we mourn the loss of Berta Cáceres, a truly heroic environmental organizer. On January 18, 2016, Dr. Brundtland received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zayed Future Energy Prize 2016 for her global leadership on sustainability.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay. Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts.