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New Sea-Level-Rise Modeling Forecasts Major Climate Impact to Low-Lying Pacific Islands via @USGS
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New Sea-Level-Rise Modeling Forecasts Major Climate Impact to Low-Lying Pacific Islands via @USGS

Dynamic modeling of sea-level rise, which takes storm wind and wave action into account, paints a much graver picture for some low-lying Pacific islands under climate-change scenarios than the passive computer modeling used in earlier research, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report.

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