Learning from the past
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The magnitude of flooding can be affected by small changes in climate, as shown by a study of the past 5,000 years of the Upper Mississippi River tributaries. James Knox studied floods which went over the banks of the rivers and found that climatic cooling increased the flooding, such as at times preceding the Little Ice Age. This knowledge can help with current models of the dangers of global warming or other climatic changes.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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Subsidence risk from thawing permafrost
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Issues are discussed concerning the damage caused to infrastructure and buildings in the Arctic through the acceleration in the disappearance and thawing of the permafrost. A geographic overview of the problem is presented.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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Critical politics of carbon sinks
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The US government is calling for more research into the positive use of carbon quota trading while also refusing to cut its emissions of carbon despite having signed the Kyoto agreement in 1998.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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