Sea level rise threatens coastal communities throughout the United States, and South Florida is on the front line. The iconic and built-up city of Miami Beach, Florida, has a well-developed, high-value property market, and the municipality has been lauded for proactively taking action to ...
And Professor Ben Kirtman,of the University of Miami,says the long-term projections look much worse. "By 2100, when sea level rise has been a full foot, I would say that 10 to 15 million people in Florida would have to be relocated," he said. That's why Florida's top scientists and...
"Indeed it has changed by about 3mm per year," said Robert Molleda, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Miami office. Data they collect measures the sea level rise. "Again it doesn't seem like a lot but if you extended that out over 50-100 years we're talking almost a...
With sea levels on the rise, prevailing thought suggests such investment should not occur in South Florida. However, the City of Miami could very well be the best place for tall new building construction within this region. Aside from the advantages of building upon an already established city ...
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rise. The capacity of island-dwelling species to adapt to climate change and sea level rise may be limited because many species do not have the ability to shift their distribution off the island to track favorable conditions. We assessed the vulnerability of Florida’s islands to inundation from...
"Sea level rise has kind of transformed some of the communities in southeast Florida, and really all along the coast of Florida," she said. "Particularly in areas where there's poor infrastructure and poor drainage of our sewer systems," she said. ...
Several coastal U.S. cities are "disappearing" into the Earth, which could further exacerbate complications of sea level rise in the near future, new research shows.
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Maps show the projected impact of different levels of sea level rise on Miami, Florida.Climate Central For now, the ice melt and corresponding sea-level rise remains at a manageable level. In the past 40 years, Antarctica's contribution to global sea level rise has only been a half an inc...