First Artificial Island to Be Built In The Americas
Boskalis is sourcing the sand for the land reclamation process from its own borrow area…
50 Houses on Kiawah Sand
A documentary about proposed development at south end of Kiawah Island, produced by Mary Edna Fraser and Celie Dailey. Includes interviews with Dr. Orrin Pilkey, Professor of Earth Scieces at Duke University, and Nancy Vinson, Coastal Conservation League’s Program Director for Air and Water Quality.
Norfolk, Virginia, Tackles Rise in Sea
Like many other cities, Norfolk was built on filled-in marsh.
The Last house of Sinking Chesapeake Bay Island
The story was strange enough to be a child’s fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly from the water. And, scurrying around it, there was a retiree, trying to keep the house from falling in.
From the East and West Coasts, a Game Plan on Sea Level Rise
New York State and California are creating blueprints for how governments should plan, and pay for, a wholesale retreat from the shoreline in anticipation of a possible rise in sea level of three or four feet or more by 2100.
Potentially devastating impacts of major coastal developments, Australia
100 major coastal developments were proposed for the Queensland coast, with potentially devastating impacts.
Battling Flood issues, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
The coastal city of Port of Spain, was built on mud flats and reclaimed lands from the sea. At high tide, with virtually a drizzle, the city is prone to major flooding.
Shipwrecks and Vanishing Coastlines: a Nigerian Predicament
The ocean is advancing menacingly towards populated areas, surge that caused severe erosion, which occurred as a result of shipwrecks and uncontrolled development of the coastlines, involving poorly done sand filling.
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.