BP Gets Record US Criminal Fine Over Deepwater Disaster
BP has received the biggest criminal penalty in US history after agreeing to pay $4.5bn (£2.8bn) to settle criminal charges related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
To Birds, Storm Survival Is Only Natural
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the northeaster, much of the East Coast looked so battered and flooded, so strewed with toppled trees and stripped of dunes and beaches, that many observers feared the worst. Any day now, surely, the wildlife corpses would start showing up, especially birds…
Ha Long Bay Clean-Up Could Force Floating Fishing Village Inland
Vietnamese authorities devise resettlement plan for floating residents, whose dumping of waste is killing their livelihood
Hurricane Sandy Damage Amplified By Breakneck Development Of Coast
Pell-mell, decades-long rush to throw up housing and businesses along fragile and vulnerable coastlines trumped commonsense concerns about the wisdom of placing hundreds of thousands of closely huddled people in the path of potential cataclysms.
Climate Adaptation, a Blog by Michael Cote
Despite the bold talk of massive infrastructure improvements in the direct aftermath of the storm called Sandy, Cote wonders if the nation’s famously short memory will prove a barrier now…
Hurricane Sandy Challenges Short-Term Thinking On Nation’s Coasts
America is an aggressively coastal nation. While accounting for just 13 percent of the nation’s total land mass, coastal counties, including those along the two oceans and the Great Lakes, are home to roughly half the U.S. population, the authors noted, and 60 percent of civilian income…
Superstorm Sandy: Interactive Before And After Images
Parts of the New Jersey coastline before and after the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Venice High Water Floods 70% of City
Venice’s high water, or “acqua alta”, said to be the sixth highest since 1872, flooded 70% of the city and was high enough to make raised wooden platforms for pedestrians float away.
Post Sandy: Most Recent Aerial Images of New Jersey and New York Shoreline
Most recent aerial pictures of New Jersey and NY shoreline after superstorm Sandy devastated the areas, by PSDS / WCU.