SEOUL nike air max 97 australia , Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The number of newborn babies in South Korea continued to fall for 19 straight months, fueling worry about the weakening growth potential of the economy, statistical agency data showed Wednesday.
About 28,900 babies were born in June, down 12.2 percent from a year earlier nike air max 2018 mens , according to Statistics Korea. Since December 2015, the number of newborn babies kept declining.
It was lower than any June figure since the statistical agency began compiling the data in 2000.
For the first six months of this year, childbirths amounted to 188,500, down 12.3 percent compared with the same period of last year.
The low birthrate has been a headache for the South Korean economy as it reduces the workforce amid the fast-aging population. The low birthrate and the population aging would drag down the economy's growth potential.
The number of marriages stood at 22 nike air max 2018 womens ,300 in June, down 8.2 percent from a year ago. During the April-June quarter, the figure declined 4.5 percent to 69,300 year on year.
The number of divorce shed 2.2 percent over the year to 9,000 in June. During the second quarter nike air max 2018 australia , the number fell 1.9 percent to 26,200.
The number of deaths increased 2.8 percent to 22,000 in June on a yearly basis. During the second quarter, it rose 2.4 percent to 68,900.
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SYDNEY, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Shifting winds are dragging warm water currents around the Antarctic coastline forcing ice to melt and sea levels to rise twice as faster than previously thought nike air presto womens australia , according to new Australian research revealed on Tuesday.
Scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) found the warm water can be 4 degrees warmer than the cold water it displaces and has serious consequences for rising global sea levels which will reshaping coastlines.
"What you usually have is cold water sitting next to the ice shelves at about minus 2 degrees Celsius and then warm water further out," Paul Spence from the Climate Change Research Center at UNSW told the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).
"We found by using projected wind forces to the end of this century that warm waters tend to flood onshore, right next to the grounding lines of the glacial ice sheets.
"It could lead to a massive increase in the rate of ice sheet melt, with direct consequences for global sea level rise."
Researchers said that the melting of some ice sheets in Antarctica is probably now irreversible.
A team of scientists from UNSW and the Australian National University (ANU) have for the first time modeled how sub-surface ocean temperatures down to 700 meters are rapidly changing around Antarctica because of shifting wind patterns, thought to be partly due to global warming.
"I didn't fully appreciate how sensitive this part of the ocean was to change and how ripe a situation it was for providing dramatic impacts on the ice sheets."
He said the research shows sub-surface warming at twice the rate previously thought.
"They weren't considering the types of temperature warming that we're seeing in our model simulations around the Antarctic coastline," Spence said.
But scientists cannot predict when these warm waters will trigger cascading glacial loss.
"It's not unlike an avalanche of snow, where you don't quite know when it's going to happen but when it happens, it can happen quickly," Spence said.
The Australian Antarctic Division's Tas van Ommen said the effects of a rapidly transforming Antarctica are now likely to be felt this century.
"We need to bear in mind that even modest sea level rises half- a-meter to a meter is a very big change and if we are going to see estimates now of several tenths of a meter more than that by the end of this century nike air max flair mens australia , that's going to rapidly reshape our response to sea level rise," he said.
"What's concerning is that with a heavily populated planet it's going to reshape our coastlines in ways that matter in this century."
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