‘Overshoot Day’ 2015: Earth is Now Officially in the Red
Today is Earth Overshoot Day: that annual moment when humankind’s use of natural resources exceeds the planet’s ability to produce and replenish them. A call for action.
Shores Are Final Frontier for Archaeology Project
Archaeologists want to enlist the help of the public as they attempt to tackle what they describe as the “final frontier”: England’s coastline.
Pilkey’s Call: Save The Beaches
Beaches move, and with rising sea levels they are moving faster. People try to slow or halt the process by dredging up sand or erecting imposing seawalls, but those are destructive and doomed efforts. To save the beaches, we must let beaches go where and how they want.
10 Years After The Storm: Has New Orleans Learned The Lessons of Hurricane Katrina?
A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, David Uberti goes in search of the people who were at the heart of its recovery, to understand what the city has gone through – and where it might be heading.
Blooms off Both North American Coasts
Phytoplankton are to the ocean what grasses and other ground cover are to land: the primary producers, the basic food source and carbon recycler for the rest of the environment. Algae and other forms of phytoplankton are floating, plant-like organisms that soak up sunshine, sponge up nutrients, and create their own food (energy).
Typhoon Soudelor Impacts
Typhoon Soudelor battered Taiwan and made landfall in China on Saturday after killing at least six, leaving four missing and causing a record-breaking amount of power outages.
Engineering away our natural defenses: An analysis of shoreline hardening in the US
Rapid coastal population growth and development are primary drivers of marine habitat degradation. Although shoreline hardening, a byproduct of development, can accelerate erosion and loss of beaches and tidal wetlands, it is a common practice globally. 22,842 km of continental U.S. shoreline, 14% of the total, has been hardened.
Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source
Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution. In many places, such as the U.S. East Coast, hydroelectric dams have damaged the ecological integrity of nearly every major river…
Beach Erosion Troubles in Sarasota, Fl
For as long as Roger Barrow can remember, the sand along Lido Key has been on the move.