Bay Area coastal community is reeling as cliffs crumble and the land moves – the San Francisco Chronicle

The staircase leans in a disturbing direction. The view out the window is no longer straight to the horizon, and living room chairs almost feel like they’re sliding toward the ocean. But 91-year-old artist Carol Guion wishes to live out her days in her home of 55 years on the San Mateo County coast, in defiance of the earth slowly moving beneath her…“I can’t leave here,” said Guion, who is in hospice care.

Survival at sea: Cuba is rewriting its coral story – Oceanographic

Christmas tree worms on coral, Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2017 (by q phia CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).

While ocean warming and coral bleaching events make the headlines around the globe, there’s a team of pioneering marine researchers quietly working on new methods to rebuild coral populations more resilient to rising temperatures through groundbreaking means. And it’s all happening in Cuba…