Climate Change: Global Sea Level Has Risen This article originally appeared on climate.gov Global mean sea-level has risen about 8–9 inches (21–24 centimeters) since 1880, with about a third of that coming in just the last two and a half decades. The rising water level is mostly due to a combination of meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets and thermal expansion of seawater as it warms. In 2019, the […] SnowBrains | October 7, 2020 4 Comments
VIDEO: Powerful Water Floods Town After 2 Dams Break in Michigan, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate 2 dams busted in central Michigan on Tuesday forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and causing the national weather service to issue a flash-flood warning for areas near the Tittabawassee River. The dams were the Edenville Dam and the Stanford Dam near Midland, Michigan. It is believed that severe flooding in the area had put too much pressure […] SnowBrains | May 22, 2020 0 Comments
What Revelstoke, BC’s Most Deadly Disaster Can Teach Us 110 Years Later On March 4, 1910, Canada had its worst avalanche disaster in history. The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 62 men clearing a railroad line near the summit of Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia near the town of Revelstoke. This is the accident summary, provided by Wikipedia: On the evening of March 4 work crews were dispatched to clear a big […] Avalanche Martin Kuprianowicz | March 4, 2020 0 Comments
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