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is rising sea levels, and already coastal areas have started making plans to handle the flooding that will come with rising ocean waters. Butfinds that those plans might need to accelerate, as the scientists behind it found that the flooding impacts of increased sea levels are likely to happen faster than previously thought. Not because of any change in carbon emissions, but because of better technologies.
In decades past, researchers used radar to determine coastal elevations, which were then plugged into flooding models. But the problem, these researchers found, is that radar can’t always tell the difference between plants and the ground. Advances in lidar, however, don’t have that issue, enabling more accurate measurements.
AC Energy is deepening its investments in renewable energy with the construction of a 300-megawatt solar farm in Zambales province, north of Manila.
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