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Oil spill cleanup continues along Delaware, Maryland coast

Oil Pollution

Crews are continuing a cleanup operation from an oil spill that affected a significant stretch of coastline in Delaware and Maryland…

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Plastic Pollution

Beach strewn with plastic debris (courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).

New Satellite Tech Tracks Plastic on Beaches – SciTechDaily

Art + Science

Sunset On The Klamath River (by Linda Tanner CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

Undammed: Amy Bowers Cordalis and the fight to free the Klamath − Patagonia Flims

Sand Mining

Sand extraction in Villeneuve-sur-Verberie, France, c 1910 (Dury, editor, Public domain, via Wikimedia).

A Civilization Built on Sand – Le Figaro

SL Rise | Climate Change

Satellite view of the Mediterranean Sea (from Google Earth: data from Landsat /CopernicusData SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCOIBCAOImagery , 12/14/2015–newer).

Mediterranean sea level found to be rising three times faster than expected – Murcia Today

Coastal Care JR

Sunrise on the Annapurna Range from Bandipur, Nepal © 2024 Deepika Shrestha Ross

How the Himalayas Changed the World – PBS Eons

Ecosystem Destruction

Polyethylene heat welded sculpture made to demonstrate the great Oceanic Gyres created by waste. This artwork is part of a collection titled "The creation of Plastikos" (by Simon MAX Bannister, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia).

Surprising Creatures Lurk in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Scientific American

Shoreline Armoring

An aerial view of the damage Hurricane Ike inflicted upon Gilchrist, Texas (by Jocelyn Augusitno/FEMA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).

Shelter from the Storm – Science

Problematic Development

Anini Beach, 2018 (by Alan Grinberg CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flicker).

Hawaii homeowner hired security to kick people off Kauai beach – SFGate