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Map showing areas vulnerable to sea-level rise: Map showing housing units vulnerable to sea-level rise. Video; PBS News Hour segment on how New York City is preparing for future hurricanes, October 28, 2013 (8:16). PBS News Hour segment on Dutch lessons for protecting New York Harbor, Oct 29, 2013 (8:39).
Sea level rise of 0.2-0.3 meters is likely by 2050. In these conditions what is currently a 100-year flood would occur every year in the New Zealand cities of Wellington and Christchurch. With 0.5 m sea level rise, a current 100-year flood in Australia would occur several times a year.
The Sea Bright–Monmouth Beach Seawall is a seawall located along the Jersey Shore in the Monmouth County, New Jersey towns of Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach. It roughly runs north-south direction along 4.7 miles (7.6 km) of the barrier spit of land along the lower Sandy Hook peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Shrewsbury River estuary.
Burlington County is a county in the South Jersey region of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The county is the largest by land area in New Jersey and ranks second behind neighboring Ocean County in total area. [2] Its county seat is Mount Holly. [1]
Most people know about sea-level rise as a result of warming oceans and melting glaciers, but not many are aware of the fact that geological changes as a result of the last ice age are also ...
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Map of Holmdel Township in Monmouth County.Inset: Location of Monmouth County in the State of New Jersey.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 18.05 square miles (46.75 km 2), including 17.85 square miles (46.22 km 2) of land and 0.20 square miles (0.53 km 2) of water (1.13%).
A study by scientists with the University of Miami, NOAA, NASA and other institutions, which has not yet undergone peer review, found that the Southeastern sea-level rise accounted for “30%-50% ...