Bay Area coastal community is reeling as cliffs crumble and the land moves – the San Francisco Chronicle

The staircase leans in a disturbing direction. The view out the window is no longer straight to the horizon, and living room chairs almost feel like they’re sliding toward the ocean. But 91-year-old artist Carol Guion wishes to live out her days in her home of 55 years on the San Mateo County coast, in defiance of the earth slowly moving beneath her…“I can’t leave here,” said Guion, who is in hospice care.

Ghana’s vanishing coast: Climate change is eroding historic site – France 24

A view of the ruins of an ancient European fort at Keta. The devastation of the fort is largely due to sea erosion in the Keta area 2012 (by Gameli Adzaho Gameli Adzaho, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia).

In the Ghanaian city of Keta, a key part of the country’s history there is under threat from climate change. Fort Prinz en-stein, which was once a grim clog in the transatlantic slave trade, is now a shell of itself because of rising seas levels, relentless erosion and human neglect. Activists are now urging the government to act fast to preserve the UNESCO world heritage site…