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 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…
Sculpting Of An Erodible Body By Flowing Water
Erosion by flowing fluids carves striking landforms on Earth and also provides important clues to the past and present environments of other worlds.
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.
Mozambique creates Africa’s largest coastal marine reserve
The Primeiras and Segundas have been approved as a marine protected area in Mozambique making this diverse ten-island archipelago Africa’s largest coastal marine reserve.
Billions in Subsidies Prop up Unsustainable Overfishing
Calls are mounting for the world’s big fishing powers to stop subsidising international fleets that use destructive methods like bottom trawling in foreign coastal waters…
Sea Level Rise Accelerating For US East Coast
This summer the North Carolina Senate passed a bill banning researchers from reporting predicted increases in the rate of sea level rise. But the ocean, unbound by legislation, is rising anyway, and in North Carolina this rise is accelerating, researchers reported…
Coral Files Reveal Time of First Polynesian Settlements
Polynesia was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans, and new techniques reveal that this settlement first occurred within a 16 year window nearly 3000 years ago.
War’s Silent Victim
November 6th, marks the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. In the havoc and destruction spread by war, damage to the environment is almost always regarded as a necessary price to be paid. We must not allow the environment to remain a silent casualty.