The Race to Keep an Amtrak Train From Falling Into the Pacific – The Wall Street Journal
The Pacific Surfliner has shut down frequently because of coastal erosion and eventually must be moved inland..
Why Highway 1 Near Big Sur Is Always Collapsing Into The Ocean – LAist
About 2,000 motorists, mostly tourists, were stuck in the area on Saturday night after a section of Highway 1 fell into the ocean. No injuries were reported….
Travelers Stranded by Highway Collapse Begin to Leave Big Sur – the New York Times
About 2,000 motorists, mostly tourists, were stuck in the area on Saturday night after a section of Highway 1 fell into the ocean. No injuries were reported….
California’s Highway 1 road conditions will only get riskier, experts say – the Guardian
Chunk of famed route crumbled into sea causing another closure, and conditions are expected to only worsen with climate crisis…
California’s Pacific highway is beautiful, famous … and collapsing – the Times, UK
2,000 people were stranded recently when a chunk of Highway 1 fell into the sea near Big Sur. The solution may lurk in an unlikely place: Yorkshire…
Landslides are changing Calif.’s coastline. 100 years ago, one swallowed a city – SF Gate
Coastal landslides and shifting ground have made headlines recently around Los Angeles, particularly on the otherwise quiet Palos Verdes Peninsula at the southern tip of the county. The looming landmass juts out into the Pacific Ocean near Long Beach and is topped with rolling hillsides, dramatic ocean views and multimillion-dollar homes…
Clifftop mansions stand on the brink after severe storms inundate California – the Washington Post
Across Southern California, slope failures and ground movement after a series of storms have put homes in harm’s way…
9 times the US Army Corps of Engineers miscalculated badly at the expense of taxpayers, wildlife – Jefferson Public Radio (JPR)
The agency has a history of diving into big construction projects that exceed projected costs, fall short on projected benefits and, in some cases, create new problems that engineers hadn’t bargained for…
Can Seawalls Save Us? – the New Yorker
Pacifica, California, just south of San Francisco, is the kind of beachfront community that longtime residents compare to Heaven…Pacifica embodies one of the central disagreements about rising seas. Fight or flight? Stay or go? Flight can seem unimaginable. But, if we try to fight the ocean with rock and concrete, it will cost us—and it may not work…