“The fear has properly set in”: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea – the Guardian
Inverbervie, on the north-east coast of Scotland, faces an existential threat, with storms carving away metres of shoreline. Can anything be done to save what is left?
The Precarious Future of Big Sur’s Highway 1 – the New Yorker
How climate change is threatening one of the country’s most famous roadways..
How is coastal erosion impacting life in San Diego? – NBC 7 San Diego
NBC 7 explores coastal erosion and the threat to people, property & infrastructure along San Diego’s coastline.
Add sand, lose sand, repeat. The climate conundrum for beaches – E&E News
Rebuilding beaches after hurricanes is costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars more than expected as the Army Corps of Engineers pumps mountains of sand onto storm-obliterated shorelines…
A Massachusetts town spent $600K on shore protection. A winter storm washed it away days later – the Washington Post
A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure…
Why Oak Island is looking 18 miles off its coast for sand to nourish its eroded beach – Wilmington StarNews Online
Faced with an eroding beach, Oak Island wants to pump fresh sand onto its oceanfront. But finding a viable sand source might mean going a long way offshore…
Can the ‘sand motor’ save West Africa’s eroding coast? – Grist Magazine
As sea levels rise, engineers are using massive Dutch-inspired sand sculptures to protect shorefront settlements…It’s called the “sand motor,” and it comes from the Netherlands, a low-lying nation with centuries of experience in coastal protection…
Slipping away: Erosion forces Olympic National Park to take a hard look at Kalaloch Lodge – the Seattle Times
Kalaloch is the third-most-visited of Olympic National Park’s nine districts…Kalaloch Lodge, run on a concessionaire’s contract by the global entertainment/hospitality company Delaware North…has grown into a beachfront hotel with a restaurant overlooking the ocean, a small grocery store, a campground and nearly 50 cabins sitting on the same bluffs where the Beckers built their rustic resort 95 years ago. Except there’s less bluff. And less of it every year….
St. Johns County receives $59 million for coastal protection, ‘managed retreat’ – First Coast News
Other funded projects include a railroad overpass in Nocatee and erosion control in North Ponte Vedra Beach.
With Gov. Ron DeSantis putting pen to paper in signing the state’s budget for the fiscal year Thursday, St. Johns County received $59 million — the largest amount of state appropriations the county has ever received and far more than the $12.4 million it got last year…