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The 2007 Santa Barbara, California, Light Blue Line Project, designed to demarcate a 21 foot rise in sea level if the Greenland ice sheet melts completely, was scrapped due to objections by real estate interest groups that it would depress housing prices in flood-prone areas and that such an event would be a worst case scenario and unlikely to occur in the next 100 years. However, it turns out that the Greenland ice sheet is likely to...

The following is a European Space Agency news article dated 9 March 2012: The first global high-resolution map of the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle – the Moho – has been produced, based on data from ESA’s GOCE gravity satellite. Understanding the Moho will offer new clues into the dynamics of Earth’s interior. Earth’s crust is the outermost solid shell of our planet. Even though it makes...

The following is a press release by the UCSB Office of Public Affairs dated March 5, 2012: A 16-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has identified a nearly 13,000-year-old layer of thin, dark sediment buried in the floor of Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico. The sediment layer contains an exotic assemblage of materials, including nanodiamonds, impact...