Ten Things Kids Want Us to Know About Trash on Beaches and Oceans
Fourth-graders in New York City conducted cleanups at a local beach and tallied every item they found on Ocean Conservancy’s data card, an experience shared by hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year during Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup.
Sand Sharks Scour Gulf Beaches: Mixed Feelings
In a region still in shock over the financial and psychological damage inflicted by BP PLC’s months-long oil spill, the act of watching and listening to the Sand Shark at work is for many a form of therapy, even though, pancake-sized lumps of crude are exhumed from holes about 12 inches deep.
Call to Heal World’s Reefs
There is still time to save the world’s ailing coral reefs, if prompt and decisive action can be taken to improve their overall health, leading marine researchers said, in a major scientific symposium in Canberra, October 7th and 8th.
New Beach Sand Mining Restriction in The Turks and Caicos
Measures are being put in place to regulate beach sand mining in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Update from the USF Coastal Research Laboratory on Oil Sands
Areas just offshore from some of Florida’s most heavily oiled beaches appear to be free of visible oil contamination, yet erosion of buried beach oil and subsequent redistribution is still expected during storms.
Solar Power in the Maldives
With hardly any land more than 8 feet above sea level, thus particularly vulnerable should seas rise several feet by the end of the century, the Maldives stands at the front line of climate change, and has announced plans to green its energy sector and pledged under the Copenhagen Accord to become carbon neutral by 2020.
Sea level rise in Norway in the 21st century
The tables show estimated values for sea level rise, land rise and flooding for the years 2050 and 2100.
How sand mining mafia is plundering beaches and creeks
The entire coastal region in India, especially the west coast, will be denuded of natural sand, if the sector is not regulated. Most of Maharashtra’s beaches will resemble lunar surfaces, with the sand mined completely, leaving only a rocky shore.
Louisiana Curtails Coastal Plan
Officials are temporarily scaling back their ambitions for a massive sand berms program that was designed to block oil from hitting coastal marshes but that continues to draw federal opposition.