If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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