Rising seas are engulfing Tangier Island so quickly that most of its remaining residents may be forced to flee the low-lying Chesapeake Bay community during the next decade, according to a bleak new assessment published Nov. 8 in Frontiers of Climate.
Permafrost covers 65% of Russia's landmass, and scientists say that greenhouse gas emissions from its thaw could eventually match or even exceed the EU's industrial emission.
Subsidence in Tehran is linked to over-extraction of groundwater, with the falling water levels causing the soil to shift and settle in many neighborhoods.
Current models are probably underestimating how vulnerable Arctic infrastructure is to climate change, finds a new study that examined the heat-driven deterioration of the sole highway to the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope.
