Where Seas are Rising at Alarming Speed – the Washington Post
![Southeastern United States, after winter rains brought sediments from rivers flowing to the East of the Rockies into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast (captured by the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 satellite on December 18, 2023, courtesy of NASA/OB.DAAC).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/JPSS1_VIIRS_20231218T190600_southeastern_plumes_sm-798x532.png)
One of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth is besieging the American South, forcing a reckoning for coastal communities across eight U.S. states…At more than a dozen tide gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels are at least 6 inches higher than they were in 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades…
Climate change is rewiring fish brains — and probably ours, too – Grist Magazine
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Acidifying oceans are leading to sensory loss in fish. Scientists fear people might be next…
A climate Q&A with coastal geologist Gary Griggs – Pacifica Tribune
![Coastal Geologist. Oceanographer and University of California Santa Cruz professor Gary Griggs stands in the sand dunes along Monterey Bay © D Shrestha Ross.](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMGP4094-2-Edit-798x528.jpg)
A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing…
Why Is the Sea So Hot? – the New Yorker
![Ocean Sunset (by mpntag451 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License via DiviantArt)](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ocean_sunset_by_montag451_df4l5ry-fullview-798x449.jpeg)
A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing…
The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone – the Atlantic
![Ocean Life - watercolor by James M. Sommerville (probably the artist), Christian Schussele (probably the lithographer), courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ocean_Life_MET_APs2566-e1709941816906-798x547.jpeg)
As far as humanity is concerned, the transformation of our seas is “effectively permanent.”
Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it – Grist Magazine
![Aerial view of the Runit Dome (or Cactus Dome), Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll c. 1977-1980. The crater created by the Cactus shot of Operation Hardtack I was used as a burial pit to inter 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil scraped from the various contaminated Enewetak Atoll islands Courtesy of US Defense Special Weapons Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Runit_Dome_001-714x900.jpeg)
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands…The report summarizes disagreements between Marshall Islands officials and the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the risks posed by U.S. nuclear waste. The GAO recommends that the agency adopt a communications strategy for conveying information about the potential for pollution to the Marshallese people.
The East Coast Is Sinking | Interactive – the New York Times
![Charleston, South Carolina, is among the cities scrambling to react to subsidence and rising seas. This city of 800,000 people is one of the fastest sinking cities (about 4 millimeters per year) in the eastern U.S (caption by by Adam Voiland and image by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Ohenhen, Leonard O., et al. (2023) courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/vlmcharleston_se1_2020_lrg-798x532.jpeg)
New satellite-based research reveals how land along the coast is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level rise.
A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater.
A ‘collapse’ is looming for Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, scientists say – the Washington Post
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Scientists say the overwhelming majority of the state’s wetlands — a natural buffer against hurricanes — are in a state of ‘drowning’ and could be gone by 2070…
Six Spongy Sea Creatures Suggest Warming Might Be Worse Than Thought – the New York Times
![The sun's glint beams across the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean highlighting Cuba and Haiti in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above, Nov. 20, 2022 (courtesy of NASA Johnson CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/52517167489_f6db8a899e_c.jpg)
Research on a long-lived but rarely seen species in the Caribbean is helping scientists piece together a revised history of climate change…