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Future of shoreline depends on how LI confronts rising sea level

2016-09-04 05:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Newsday: Long Island is changing, nowhere more so than on our coastline. Water and wind continue to sculpt our land. We have not always responded well. We pump sand onto our beaches, watch it wash away, then pump sand again. We build too close to the waters edge, despair when the sea rushes in, then build again. We protect one part of our shoreline with bulkheads and groins, see how that damages other parts of the shore, then remake those very same structures when they weaken. That became imperative...

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Wynne says Canadas future prosperity depends emissions cuts

2015-05-19 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: With the greenest speech a Canadian politician has delivered in Washington in at least a decade, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne sought Tuesday to recast the bilateral conversation as something other than wrangling over Keystone XL. "You may be conditioned to expect a Canadian politician to come to Washington and talk mostly about the Keystone Pipeline," she said, referring to the contentious plan to funnel Alberta oil sands oil across the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. For years, Prime...

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