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How Nantucket Is Preparing for Rising Seas – Inside Climate News

Nantucket Island (by Randy Levine CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

Sea-level rise threatens coastal communities even if global emissions drop…

Deadly ambush at sand winning site leaves five dead in Eastern Region – Modern Ghana

On the shore of the Volta River, near Akosombo, Eastern Region, Ghana - December 2018 (by Konrad Lembcke CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

A violent confrontation at a sand mining site in Asiyaw in Ghana’s Eastern Region has left at least five people dead and several others injured, following a deadly ambush during a community-led engagement aimed at curbing illegal sand mining in the area…

New Study Projects Climate-Driven Flooding for Thousands of New Jersey Homes – Inside Climate News

Beaches on the New Jersey shore in Cape May, New Jersey (by Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Library of Congress).

Sea-level rise threatens coastal communities even if global emissions drop…

Indonesia’s risky gamble with sea sand exports – Dialogue Earth

The Gardens by the Bay in Singapore sit on reclaimed land using sand mined from Indonesia and other neighboring countries(Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia).

Restarting exports to neighbouring countries could fuel ecological devastation, but a sustainable approach to sand dredging may be possible…

Global sea level rose higher than expected last year. Here’s why – the Washington Post

Single frame from NASA animation shows the rise in global mean sea level from 1993 to 2024 (by Mark SubbaRao, visualizer (NASA/GSFC) and Benjamin Hamlington, scientist (NASA/JPL) based on data from a series of five international satellites. Courtesy of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, public domain).

The rate of global sea level rise follows a trend of rapidly increasing rates over the past 30 years…

A city looked at the sea as a blessing. It’s now sinking into it – the Independent

Washed Away, 2008 (by Nasha Ila CC BY-NC-SA 2.0via Flickr).

The ocean has now become an existential threat…

Mexican fishers relocate in wake of sea level rise, raising job concerns – Mongabay

Satellite view of the fishing village of el Bosque in Tabasco, Mexico (Imagery © TerraMetrics, Map data © Google, INEGI via Google Maps).

The isolated Pacific nation is trying to build its first football team amid a battle for survival against rising sea levels…

Marshall Islands’ vanishing kit for a team under threat from climate crisis – the Guardian

Aerial view of Majuro, one of the many atolls that make up the Marshall Islands (By Christopher Michel CC BY 2.0 via wikimedia).

The isolated Pacific nation is trying to build its first football team amid a battle for survival against rising sea levels…

Despite Government Ban, Illegal Mining Flourish In Bauchi, Children Abandon Schools – Sahara Reporters

Collecting sand from river bottom, Nigeria (by Fatih Bilen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia).

In Bauchi State’s mining communities, children as young as 10 abandon classrooms for mining sites. They toil alongside adults, extracting sand and breaking rocks under the scorching sun, hoping to scrape together enough for their families to survive. For these children, education is a distant dream distorted by the immediate demands of poverty…

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