“Coming To A Beach Near You” by Eddie Jarvis
The beaches of the Pacific Northwest are being invaded by stowaways from a nuclear catastrophe that would have made Dr. Strangelove flinch…
Farming in Bangladesh Stays Afloat, Literally
Due to frequent flooding over the last 50 years, the farms around the capital of Dhaka, have turned into a wetland. For the residents rice cultivation is now only a memory. But, instead of cursing the havoc created by changing climate, the local inhabitants have made the best of a bad situation…
Kerala: Caught Between Quarries And Sea Erosion
After more than a century of fighting sea erosion by massively dumping granite boulders along the beaches of southern Kerala state, environmentalists and administrators are beginning to see that this has been a costly and ineffective solution. Hills are vanishing as vast pits are gouged out to extract granite illegally in India’s prime tourism state…
Arctic sea ice shatters previous low records; Antarctic sea ice edges to record high.
This September, sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean fell to the lowest extent in the satellite record, which began in 1979.
New Zealand Oil Spill: Cleanup Costs Settlement
A Greek shipping company has agreed to pay the New Zealand government up to $31.5 million toward the cleanup costs of a cargo ship’s grounding on a reef near popular swimming and surfing beaches last year. But taxpayers will still be footing some of the bill.
46 Pilot Whales Stranded In Indonesia, 3 Alive
Indonesian officials say 46 pilot whales washed ashore, on Raijua beach on Sabu, a small islet between Timor and Sumba islands in southern Indonesia. All but three have died.
Half Of The Great Barrier Of Reef Lost In 3 Decades
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is a glittering gem, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, chock-full of diverse marine life. But new research shows it is also in steep decline, with half of the reef vanishing in the past 27 years.
Beachfront Development along the Pacific Coast of Colombia: A good thing? By Orrin H. Pilkey & William J. Neal
When we were studying the Colombia’s Pacific Coast barrier islands, we visited a couple of small villages perched on the edge of rapidly eroding beaches. At first the high-risk location of these villages didn’t make any sense to us. Why should the locals live so dangerously? After a few days, however, we began to understand…
Venice Lagoon Research Indicates Rapid Climate Change in Coastal Regions
Researchers believe that this is partly as a result of a process known as the ‘urban heat island effect’; where regions experiencing rapid industrial and urban expansion produce vast amounts of heat, making the area warmer than its surroundings.