Sentence examples for less sea level from inspiring English sources

Researchers will have to understand how and why glacier speeds can vary so much, he adds, before they can trust their models to forecast the fate of the ice sheets, much less sea level.

Threatened by climate change, with 80% of the area 1 metre or less above sea level.

Some scientists predict climate change will cause more intense and more frequent El Niño and La Niña events – although this is less certain than sea level rise.

What this "whereas" ignores is the indisputable fact that 60 million people live less than 3 feet above sea level; 600 million live less than 30 feet above sea level; 44% of humankind (almost 3 billion people) live within 100 miles of the coast.

The mountain rises 2,600 feet above sea level, less than a tenth the elevation of Everest.

Most of Bangladesh consists of floodplains; two-thirds of the country is less than 5m above sea level.

Part of the rise is from ocean warming – warm water is less dense so the sea level rises as temperatures increase.

In fact, the island itself is quite new – it was separated from the mainland by a rise in sea level less than 10,000 years ago.

This rate of warming is bringing Earth in line with temperatures last seen in the Eemian period, an interglacial era ending 115,000 years ago when there was much less ice and the sea level was 6-9 meters (20-30ft) higher than today.

The extra oxygen was a necessary precaution — the air in the mountains of Tibet contains thirty-five to forty per cent less oxygen than at sea level — but made the compartment look like a mobile clinic.

But to excited scientists, Tibet is the site of possibly the fastest case of human evolution through natural selection in the history of mankind.The Tibetan plateau has an altitude of 4,000 metres (13,000 feet or two-and-a-half miles), where the air has two-fifths less oxygen than at sea level.