Exploring links between Ocean Warming, Stronger Hurricanes and low-lying coastal zones
In an interview with Yale Environment, MIT meteorologist discusses current thinking on how higher sea surface temperatures are likely to lead to stronger hurricanes, thus believing subsidies and bailouts encouraging people to live in vulnerable, low-lying coastal zones are folly.
Melting sea ice forces walruses ashore in Alaska
Massive super-herds of walrus are being forced onto dry land because of a lack of sea ice, the World Wildlife Fund reports. Discovery News UGC video shows an estimated 10,000 animals gathered in Point Lay, Alaska. This massive move to shore by walruses is unusual in the United States.
Ending the Oceans’ ‘Tragedy of the Commons’
Leading international marine scientists are proposing radical changes in the governance of the world’s oceans to rescue them from overfishing, pollution and other human impacts.
Expanding Hypoxic Areas in Coastal Waters
Unnatural levels of hypoxia, which occur mostly in the summer, are primarily the result of human activities that deliver nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous into waterways.
Annual International Coastal Cleanup Day, 2010
Sign up for the 25th Annual International Coastal Cleanup Day: September 25th, 2010. Be part of the solution to marine and coastal pollution!
New York City and Risk of Higher Seas
Sea level may rise faster near New York than at most other densely populated ports, thus it has become an urban experiment in the ways that seaboard cities can adapt to climate change over the next century.
Coral Reef and Planet’s Changing Sea Levels
By studying ancient coral, scientists are hoping to put together the most accurate picture yet of how sea levels have changed over thousands of years.
Tar balls coat Indian beaches
Semisolid lumps of oil formed layers up to six inches deep (15 centimeters) on the renowned Goa beaches.
Barrier islands and sea-level rise
Over the next 100 years, according to recent estimates, we should expect 5 to 6 feet of sea-level rise.