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11 total sentences available.
Accelerating climate change has caused serious impacts. Higher temperatures and extreme weather events are damaging food production, rising sea levels and more damaging storms are putting our coastal cities increasingly at risk and the impacts of climate change are already harming economies around the world, including those of the United States and China. These developments urgently require enhanced actions to tackle the challenge.
Source: tatoeba (3650991)
For decades scientists warned that the accelerating sea level rise would eventually put coastlines in many countries at risk.
Source: tatoeba (5402217)
Greenland's melting is accelerating. By itself, the full melting of that country's ice sheet could increase sea levels by over six metres.
Source: tatoeba (5402225)
One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that result from masses accelerating in space.
Source: tatoeba (6479015)
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Closest matches include accelerate industrial growth, accelerated motion, accelerated program, acceleratory, acceleratory factor.
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