Rising Seas Wash Dead Away from Marshall Islands Graves
Rising sea levels have washed the remains of at least 26 Japanese second world war soldiers from their graves on a low-lying Pacific archipelago, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands has said.
The Colorado River Returns to the Sea
More than eight weeks after the he Morelos Dam on the Arizona-Mexico border was opened to allow a “pulse flow” , which began on March 23, and now nearing its end, the Colorado River, after coursing through its delta, touched the Sea of Cortez.
Malibu’s Residents Plot New $20 Million Plan to Stop Sand Erosion
For several years, the wealthy residents of the exclusive oceanfront enclave at the north end of Malibu have been fighting both Mother Nature and environmentalists over their plan to tax themselves $20 million to widen their shore, which has eroded in recent decades to a slender strip unrecognizable from its namesake.
Life-Giving Deltas Starved by Dams
At a time when coastal areas are already battered by climate change, life-giving deltas are being sacrificed to dam building.
Conservationists Call On House To Stop Looser Beach Erosion Rules, SC
Environmentalists denounced a bill to let a handful of property owners rebuild the aging Debordieu seawall, despite a state law that banned seawalls about a quarter century ago. The ban, adopted as part of the 1988 beach management act, was enacted because seawalls are known to make beach erosion worse when slammed by waves.
Vanishing Clams on an Iberian Beach: Consequences and Implications of Loss of Shells to Tourism
A four-fold increase in global tourist arrivals over the last 30 years may have induced a comparable worldwide acceleration in shell removal from marine shorelines, resulting in multiple, currently unquantifiable, habitat changes such as increased beach erosion.
The Physics of Ocean Undertow: Creating More Robust And Sustainable Beaches?
People standing on a beach often feel the water tugging the sand away from under their feet. This is the undertow, the current that pulls water back into the ocean after a wave breaks on the beach. Large storms produce strong undertows that can strip beaches of sand.
Beach Sand Mining Detrimental Effects Explained, Saint- Louis, Senegal
Environmental expert Babacar Gaye explains how gravely coastal erosion is affecting Senegal, notably underlying the detrimental consequences of sand mining in Saint-Louis’ region (Barbary Tongue).
The Folly Of Poorly Executed Beach Renourishment
“Folly’s beach $30 million dredging/renourishment project is a fiasco that eclipses the 2009 dredging of live artillery onto the beach during a project in Surf City, N.J…” By journalist Chris Dixon.