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Why seas are surging | Interactive – the Washington Post

Installing a tide gage near Castle Cape (courtesy of NOAA Photo Library CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).

What one tide gauge reveals about America’s climate future…

Bay Area homeowners battle California Coastal Commission over right to build seawall – the San Francisco Chronicle

View of coast North of the City of Half Moon Bay and Pillar Point Harbor © 2002-2024 Kenneth & Gabrielle Adelman, California Coastal Records Project, www.Californiacoastline.org

A legal battle playing out between the California Coastal Commission and homeowners who want to build a large seawall near Half Moon Bay could have repercussions along the entire coast.

Why are Puducherry’s beaches fast disappearing? – Eco India | Scroll.in | DW (11-30-2024)

"Lady and couple watching waves" Puducherry, India (by Kate Fisher, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

Coastal erosion is reshaping India’s shores, threatening fishing villages and bustling tourist hubs like Puducherry. And what makes it worse – much of the erosion is manmade. Is there a way to reverse the damage?

Ocean acidification is a deeper crisis than we first thought – Oceonographic

Effects of ocean acidification on this pteropod include ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right, and severe abrasions and weak spots on on its lower whorl (courtesy of NOAA Photo Library CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).

Once thought to be the concerns of surface level layers of the ocean, headlines over the past week indicate that ocean acidification is now sinking into marine regions as deep as 1,500 metres – posing new threats to the marine life…

As Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melts, an Island Town Rises – Smithsonian Magazine

View to Aasiaat's Harbor, May 31, 2016 (by Vaido Otsar, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia)

Geologists are working with local communities to determine how residents can adapt as the area’s sea level, in effect, goes down…

Climate change made all of this year’s Atlantic hurricanes so much worse – Grist

Climate change is fueling hurricane intensification (courtesy of Climate Central).

A new analysis finds that the storms’ wind speeds increased by up to 28 miles per hour, boosting their destructive power..

How a powerful bomb cyclone ravaged the Northwest (USA) – the Seattle Times

View of the sun setting on a powerful mid-latitude cyclone on November 19, 2024 (GOES-18 GeoColor imagery courtesy SCU/CIRA and NOAA)

This storm was off the charts. The bomb cyclone emerged from the middle of the Pacific Ocean and swirled with such intensity off Washington’s coast that it ravaged the region Tuesday night, ripping down trees, toppling power lines and killing at least two…

‘The sea was coming closer, it was so painful to see my house being destroyed’ – the Guardian

"Atafona, Brazil: The sea is swallowing the city" (by Samuel Kobayashi CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

‘The sea was coming closer, it was so painful to see my house being destroyed’…

Home collapses into ocean in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It’s the 6th time this year – USA Today

Rodanthe Beach, North Carolina: latest collapsed house was at the end of Surfside Drive (Google Earth imagery by Airbus, Maxar Technologies 2024).

A North Carolina coastal storm sent a home into the ocean off the Outer Banks island of Hatteras overnight Friday, marking the sixth house collapse in the area this year.

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