We Will All End Up Paying for Someone Else’s Beach House – New York Times
As sea level rises and storm surges grow more intense, beach towns on every coast of the United States will soon be sacrificing more real estate to Poseidon… more than 300,000 coastal homes, currently worth well over $100 billion, are at risk of “chronic inundation” by 2045.
Florida’s Vanishing Beaches: The fight against coastal erosion – ABC Action News
According to a June report by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, more than half of the 825 miles of coastline they surveyed are critically eroded…
History of DDT ocean dumping off L.A. coast even worse than expected, EPA finds – Los Angeles Times
After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse — and far more sweeping — than what scientists anticipated.