Mangroves die-off in Queensland’s Gulf Country and Limmen Bight
Experts have been focusing on hundreds of kilometres of mangroves along the coast in Queensland, that have turned a ghostly white. Serious concerns about the situation, which is compared to coral bleaching happening on the Great Barrier Reef, which is the result of warmer ocean temperatures, are raised.
Borneo – Malaysia: Machinery seized over illegal sand mining
According to the Lands and Surveys Department record, the department has made numerous raids on illegal sand mining activities since 2015
Danger in the sand: Miami beach votes to secure control over sand
The City of Miami Beach voted to secure some control over the donation of sand to its beaches- which are owned by the state of Florida.
Woman sets out to paddleboard length of England to highlight plastic pollution
Lizzie Carr is aiming to become the first person to paddleboard the length of England via connected waterways to highlight the issue of plastic pollution.
New study shows rapid marsh bank sediment build up does not equate land loss resilience
A new study proposes a new framework to look at sediment fluxes in marsh channels that takes into account the natural process of sediment recycling. Understanding how sediments are transported within salt marshes is critical to predict the effect that processes such as nutrient loading, sea-level rise and sediment supply have on marsh erosion.
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas.
People may be breathing in microplastics, health expert warns
People could be breathing in microparticles of plastic, according to a leading environmental health expert, with as yet unknown consequences on health.
Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise
Five of the Solomon Islands have been swallowed whole by rising sea levels, offering a glimpse into the future of other low-lying nations.
Illegal Chinese Sand Mining Causing Massive Land Reduction in Kinmen
From 2007 to 2012, the coastline in parts of Taiwan-governed Kinmen -located off the coast of southeastern China- has reduced more than 200 meters and the total land loss currently adds up to 250,000 square meters. Many experts and Kinmen locals, believe this ongoing phenomenon can be attributed to illegal Chinese sand miners operating along the coast.