Climate Science: Rising tide

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Severe coastal erosion, Anegada, British Virgin Islands. Photograph: © SAF

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Researchers struggle to project how fast, how high and how far the oceans will rise.

As the IPCC prepares to release its latest summary of climate science next week, researchers say that they now have a better grasp of the problem…

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A Guide to Understanding Mathematical Models Used to Predict Beach Behavior, For Those Who Had a Hard Time With Algebra, By Orrin H. Pilkey
Many of you may have read environmental impact statements or engineering design documents or have attended public hearings about plans to engineer beaches. You suspect that the plan is flawed but you find yourself up against a brick wall in the form of a mathematical model. You are not the only one…

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