Ecosystems as Infrastructure: A New Way of Looking at Climate Resilience – Yale Environment 360
![Kate Orff, SCAPE, September 21, 2015 (courtesy of Columbia GSAPP CC BY 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/22023559245_7b31f96305_k-798x532.jpg)
Landscape architect Kate Orff works on rebuilding natural systems to help communities and cities reduce their climate risks. Places with interwoven ecological systems, she says, are more resilient and better able both to respond to emergencies and adapt for the future….
No, 11,200 Climate Refugees Aren’t Heading to Australia – the New York Times
![Aerial view of Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu (by Aurélia Rusek courtesy of UNDP, public domain).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tuvalu_1-798x598.jpeg)
Low-lying Tuvalu has reached a deal with its large Pacific neighbor to address the challenge of rising oceans, but it is not planning to pack up and go…
Lessons from California on How to Adapt to Sea Level Rise – NPR | On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
![Mediterranean style beach cottages at Capitola-by-the-Sea. The lagoon is formed by Soquel Creek. California, Capitola. 2003 October (Courtesy of NOAA Photo Library, photo by Captain Albert E. Theberge, NOAA Corps (ret.) CC BY 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/5436391882_820985fbd5_k-1-798x382.jpg)
The Pacific Ocean off the California coast could rise more than six feet by the end of this century, according to some estimates…
Guests: Rosanna Xia, environmental reporter for the LA Times. Author of “California Against the Sea: Visions for our Vanishing Coastline.”
A.R. Siders, director of the Climate Change Hub and professor on climate change adaptation at the University of Delaware.
A sea change on managed retreat? – CommonWealth Journal
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As waters rise, coastal residents are increasingly facing a difficult choice: try to relocate in a difficult housing market and take losses on their homes, or get comfortable with a future where there may be multiple feet of water in their living rooms…
Managed Retreat? Please, Not Yet – Hakai Magazine
![Screenshot from Reuter's video "Stay or Flee? Fijians forced to abandon disappearing homes" via Youtube.](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-9.32.41-PM-798x450.png)
Salt water is already seeping through gardens, under homes, and among the headstones on Serua Island, Fiji. As climate change rolls on, and as the sea level continues to rise, this low-lying island off the southern coast of Viti Levu, one of the country’s two largest islands, seems like an obvious candidate for relocation efforts—and its inhabitants the latest face of climate refugees. Fiji’s national government has offered its support to help the island’s 100 or so inhabitants move. Yet almost all are choosing to stay put…