Shell: Skimmers in Gulf begin to clean 88,200 gallon spill
Vessels have begun cleaning up an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after about 88,200 gallons of oil were released from a Shell flow line about 90 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the company said Friday.
Ghana’s coastal erosion: The village buried in sand
Rising sea levels are swallowing up land along the West African coastline at an astonishing rate. The geographical location of Fuveme, in Keta municipality of the Volta region, Ghana, makes it particularly prone to sea erosion. A 2010 study by the World Bank paints a grim picture for the rest of the country.
Mangroves die-off in Queensland’s Gulf Country and Limmen Bight
Experts have been focusing on hundreds of kilometres of mangroves along the coast in Queensland, that have turned a ghostly white. Serious concerns about the situation, which is compared to coral bleaching happening on the Great Barrier Reef, which is the result of warmer ocean temperatures, are raised.
Borneo – Malaysia: Machinery seized over illegal sand mining
According to the Lands and Surveys Department record, the department has made numerous raids on illegal sand mining activities since 2015
Danger in the sand: Miami beach votes to secure control over sand
The City of Miami Beach voted to secure some control over the donation of sand to its beaches- which are owned by the state of Florida.
‘Unusually’ Thin And Fractured Arctic Ice Hints At Yet Another Record Melt
According to new data, the Arctic sea ice melt season is running as much as one month earlier than average. Unless weather patterns change dramatically, that could mean a record year for summer melting of Arctic ice.
Woman sets out to paddleboard length of England to highlight plastic pollution
Lizzie Carr is aiming to become the first person to paddleboard the length of England via connected waterways to highlight the issue of plastic pollution.
New study shows rapid marsh bank sediment build up does not equate land loss resilience
A new study proposes a new framework to look at sediment fluxes in marsh channels that takes into account the natural process of sediment recycling. Understanding how sediments are transported within salt marshes is critical to predict the effect that processes such as nutrient loading, sea-level rise and sediment supply have on marsh erosion.
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas.