Life-Giving Deltas Starved by Dams
At a time when coastal areas are already battered by climate change, life-giving deltas are being sacrificed to dam building.
Fiji Leads Pacific Region on Climate Adaptation Efforts
Still a long way off in many parts of the world, climate displacement is already a reality in the Pacific Islands, where rising seas are contaminating fresh water and agricultural land, and rendering some coastal areas uninhabitable.
Conservationists Call On House To Stop Looser Beach Erosion Rules, SC
Environmentalists denounced a bill to let a handful of property owners rebuild the aging Debordieu seawall, despite a state law that banned seawalls about a quarter century ago. The ban, adopted as part of the 1988 beach management act, was enacted because seawalls are known to make beach erosion worse when slammed by waves.
Vanishing Clams on an Iberian Beach: Consequences and Implications of Loss of Shells to Tourism
A four-fold increase in global tourist arrivals over the last 30 years may have induced a comparable worldwide acceleration in shell removal from marine shorelines, resulting in multiple, currently unquantifiable, habitat changes such as increased beach erosion.
A Tracking System To Check Illegal Mining, Maharashtra, India
Even though stringent laws are in place to curb illegal sand mining, they are frequently violated. Pune division will soon emulate the Solapur model of barcoding system that aims to check illegal sand mining. The authorities will issue a barcoded slip to the driver ferrying sand and track the vehicle from the loading spot to the delivery point.
Trash-Scooping Wheel Cleans Up Garbage From Baltimore Harbor
A new contraption is helping to clear trash and debris, up to 50,000 pounds of it each day, from the Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
How Rising Seas Could Sink Nuclear Plants On The East Coast
After the 2011 Japan tsunami disaster, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ordered nuclear facilities in the U.S. to review and update their plans for addressing extreme seismic activity and potential flooding from other events, such as sea level rise and storm surges. Those plans aren’t due until March 2015…
A Blueprint to End Paralysis Over Global Action on Climate?
The international community should stop chasing the chimera of a binding treaty to limit CO2 emissions. Instead, it should pursue an approach that encourages countries to engage in a “race to the top” in low-carbon energy solutions.
More Sea Turtles Will Be Born Female As Climate Warms
Hotter sands triggered by a warming climate could cause greater numbers of sea turtles to be born female, risking the animal’s extinction, research shows.