‘Sand mattress’ technology to combat Mother Nature at Kuhio Beach
Photograph: Waikiki beach-renourishement, 2012 © SAF — Coastal Care.
“Hawaii’s famed Waikiki Beach started to erode again, less than a year after the completion of
How can we save America’s vanishing beaches? California shows the way, according to Surfrider report
Refugio Beach, severe coastal erosion, February 2016. Refugio State Beach is one of the true gems of the Gaviota Coast, 20 miles west of Santa Barbara, California. Photo: © SAF – Coastal Care
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Shorelines are shrinking. Storms are flooding …
Study: NC gets ‘D’ for climate change policies
Photograph: North Carolina © William Neal, Orrin Pilkey & Norma Longo.
Days after a federal report issued a harsh warning about climate change, an environmental group said North Carolina’s policies leave the state among the most ill-prepared on the East
Florida without its beaches: Seawall dooms state oceanfronts, By Robert Young
Photograph: Seawall and beach erosion © SAF — Coastal Care
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued an emergency authorization last week that will allow individual property owners in a portion of St. Johns County to build new seawalls without
Seawalls: Ecological effects of coastal armoring in soft sediment environments
Photograph: Seawall, Butterfly Beach, Santa Barbara, California © SAF — Coastal Care
For nearly a century, America’s coasts — particularly those with large urban populations — have been armored with human made structures such as seawalls.
These structures essentially draw
Australia: Erosion rate rise along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road prompts effort to bolster beach sand dunes
Coastal restoration, New York. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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More than 16,000 cubic metres of sand is being moved along beaches at Apollo Bay to protect the Great Ocean Road from coastal erosion…
The sand works will add …
Inventory Tracks ‘Armoring’ of Beaches, Inlets
Fire island, NY. Aerial pictures of Fire island, after superstorm Sandy devastated the area. Photograph courtesy of: © Rob Young and Andy Coburn, Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines / Western Carolina University
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The Beach and Tidal Habitat …
Bills would ease rules on sandbags, pumping sand from shoals; NC
“A continuous sandbag wall on North Topsail Beach, N.C. shows the shore-hardening effect of such structures on beach loss, either by initial placement or by causing beach narrowing and loss. The photo was taken in October 2016 after Hurricane Matthew …
Let’s end war with ocean, Op-Ed by Orrin H. Pilkey
Sandbagged, trashed beach at South Nags Head, N.C. in February 1987, with some evidence of bags that have been torn or ruptured and have leaked sand. The scarp under the houses indicates that storm waves are topping the bags, and …