Tag: Huybers

  • Nation & World

    And now, land may be sinking

    A new study, which used everything from tide gauges to GPS data to paint the most accurate picture ever of sea-level rise along the East Coast of the U.S., is suggesting that in addition to rising seas, communities along the coast may also have to contend with the land sinking.

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    Heavy seas come ashore in Massachusetts.
  • Nation & World

    Of orbits and ice ages

    In a paper published in the journal Nature, Harvard Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter Huybers confirms that changes in the orientation of the Earth’s spin axis have contributed to periods of major deglaciation in the past million years.

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