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DMTX.The Centro Previsioni e Segnalazione Maree (High Tide Studies Institute) has announced that 2009 and the first months of 2010 have seen record levels of water in the city. Venice, Italy. 26/02/2010.

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The "acqua alta" in Venice

DMTX.The Centro Previsioni e Segnalazione Maree (High Tide Studies Institute) has announced that 2009 and the first months of 2010 have seen record...

by Ferdinando Piezzi in Italy on 26/02/2010

Indonesian people were forced to walk through high tide seawater in order to reach their homes in Bintan Island, Sumatera. Climate change has brought about rising sea levels causing the flooding of parts of Indonesia in recent years. Bintan, Sumatera, Indonesia. 05/12/2009.

Indonesia people were walking through the sea water high tide to go to his home in Bintan Island, Sumatera, Indonesia December 5, 2009. Climate change makes water level rising alut Indonesia so that many areas are flooded by tidal waters and also many small islands would be submerged by the influence of climate change.
Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s top climate official, said on the eve of the 192-nation conference in Copenhagen, Denmarak that despite unprecedented unity and concessions, industrial countries and emerging nations need to dig deeper.

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Climate Change, sea level high tide

Indonesian people were forced to walk through high tide seawater in order to reach their homes in Bintan Island, Sumatera. Climate change has brought...

by Yuli Seperi in Indonesia on 05/12/2009

The Sphinx Laboratory which belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research that must be carried out at an altitude of 3000-3500 meters above sea level or for which a high alpine climate and environment are necessary. Switzerland, 15/10/2009.

As an international organization, the Foundation is dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research of international significance that must be carried out at an altitude of 3000-3500 meters above sea level or for which a high alpine climate and environment are necessary. The Research Station and Sphinx Laboratory at Jungfraujoch, together with the two astronomical observatories, Gornergrat South and Gornergrat North, are run for this purpose.

Scientists from universities, schools of technology, and research institutes of the member countries, and exceptionally from other countries, can carry out research in the laboratories and observatories provided by the Foundation. Administrative assistance and information are provided by the Foundation’s offices that are integrated in the University of Bern, Switzerland.
The Sphinx Laboratory is part of the Sphinx building and belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, a subsidiary company of the Jungfraubahn Holding AG. It is at the free disposal of the Foundation. It has an astronomical dome, two large and two small laboratories, a workshop, two terraces for scientific experiments, and a weather observation station. The observation instrument in the astronomical dome is a 76 cm telescope with Cassegrain and Coudé focus, and is part of the solar spectrometer of the Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique de l’Université de Liège, Belgium, and the LIDAR experiment run by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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High altitude laboratory at Jungfraujoch

The Sphinx Laboratory which belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research that...

by Anamitra Chakladar in Switzerland on 15/10/2009

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