We Need to Retreat From the Beach
As ocean waters warm, the Northeast is likely to face more Sandy-like storms. And as sea levels continue to rise, the surges of these future storms will be higher and even more deadly. We can’t stop these powerful storms. But we can reduce the deaths and damage they cause… An Op Ed by Orrin H. Pilkey.
San Francisco Bay Sand Mining Raises Question About Beach Erosion
The sediment in San Francisco Bay, once thought of as a renewable resource, is eroding and being removed much more quickly than nature replenishes it.
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…
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.