Colombia’s Receding Coastline – Jacobin

View of the Atrato River Delta, Colombia, March 27, 2007 (Courtesy of NASA - taken by an Expedition 14 crewmember onboard the International Space Station shows the Atrato River Delta and Gulf of Urabá in Colombia CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr).

In Colombia, coastal erosion caused by a combination of climate change and environmentally destructive industrial agriculture is displacing the country’s poorest citizens. But the scale of the disaster means that it has no easy solutions…

“Erosion in Rodanthe: The Fight to Protect the Outer Banks” – the Outer Banks Voice

Collection of debris south of collapsed house site 02-10-2022 (courtesy of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, public domain, via Flickr).

Dare County has released an in-depth and informative video titled, “Erosion in Rodanthe: The Fight to Protect the Outer Banks,” highlighting the serious erosion issues facing the Village of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island, where rapid erosion and significant shoreline loss has led to 11 oceanfront homes collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean since May 2020…