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Category: News

New Study Projects Climate-Driven Flooding for Thousands of New Jersey Homes – Inside Climate News

Beaches on the New Jersey shore in Cape May, New Jersey (by Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Library of Congress).

Sea-level rise threatens coastal communities even if global emissions drop…

Indonesia’s risky gamble with sea sand exports – Dialogue Earth

The Gardens by the Bay in Singapore sit on reclaimed land using sand mined from Indonesia and other neighboring countries(Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia).

Restarting exports to neighbouring countries could fuel ecological devastation, but a sustainable approach to sand dredging may be possible…

How the Klamath Dams Came Down – Grist Magazine

The Klamath River flowing through the depression left by Copco Lake, drained in spring 2024 prior to the demolition of the Copco Number 1 Dam (by Bob Pagliuco / NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation, Public Domain via Wikimedia).

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history.
This is their story…

How to eat and drink fewer microplastics – the Washington Post

Close-up of plastic water bottles (Courtesy of PxHere.com)

The peer-reviewed study detected microplastics in 180 of 182 samples comprising five types of fish and pink shrimp…

After the fire: Malibu scientists urge action to protect coastal ecosystems – the Malibu Times

Devastation of the Palisades Fire, 2025 (courtesy of CAL FIRE_Official CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr).

As cleanup efforts focus on land, marine experts warn of the Palisades Fire’s hidden toll on beaches and ocean life…

The World Can’t Keep Up With Its Garbage | Book Review – the Atlantic

Mountain of Landfill at Dawn, West Java, Indonesia (by Tom Fisk via pexels.com)

Trash dumping is taking a devastating environmental toll—especially on poorer countries….

Global sea level rose higher than expected last year. Here’s why – the Washington Post

Single frame from NASA animation shows the rise in global mean sea level from 1993 to 2024 (by Mark SubbaRao, visualizer (NASA/GSFC) and Benjamin Hamlington, scientist (NASA/JPL) based on data from a series of five international satellites. Courtesy of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, public domain).

The rate of global sea level rise follows a trend of rapidly increasing rates over the past 30 years…

Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection – Inside Climate News

Climate Change Art (by geralt, courtesy of pixabay.com).

Environmentalists vow to fight “the greatest increase in pollution in decades.”…

Bad News for the Oceans and the Earth – Gary Griggs | Op-Ed

The Burning of the Sky (by Justin Vidamo CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).

Decisions made and actions taken over the past several weeks in Washington, D.C. by the new administration are going to have a profound, negative and lasting impact on the health of the oceans and the Earth as a whole…

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