City Island and Hart Island, off Orchard Beach, Pelham Bay and Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York, are the largest of the Pelham Islands. Captions and Photo source: ©© Doc Searls
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Hart Island, a massive burial ground near the Bronx borough of New York City, is eroding, unearthing human bones along the shoreline. Advocates said the city hasn’t done anything – until now…
Read Full Article; CBS News (04-25-2018)
Cemeteries in the Sea; By William J. Neal & Orrin H. Pilkey
Cemeteries by the sea are silent sentinels. Like lighthouses and coastal fortifications, they bear dates of former times when they were on high and dry land…
Cooks government ready to deal with vulnerable cemetery, Radio NZ (02-22-2016)
The Cook Islands government says work on a retaining wall that will protect a cemetery from losing more graves to the sea is going to start immediately…
Kiwi graves disappearing off cliffs in Rarotonga ‘like no one cares’, TVNZ (02-23-2013)
A cemetery in the Pacific nation literally washing away, and the Cook Islands government is refusing to do anything about it…
Rising Seas Wash Dead Away from Marshall Islands Graves, Guardian UK (06-06-2014)
