Congressional Caucus Will Focus on Coastal Issues
A bipartisan caucus has been formed in the U.S. House of Representatives to address coastal community issues including storm protection, tourism and environmental issues.
New Land on the Louisiana Coast
While most of the delta plain of the Mississippi River Delta is losing ground, new land is forming in Atchafalaya Bay at the mouths of the Wax Lake Outlet and the Atchafalaya River.
Robert Young: Seaward of Common Sense? SC Needs to Put an End to Building on the Beach
South Carolina’s beautiful beaches are a vital component of this state’s economy. Managing them wisely is critical to the health of the economy and to ensuring that state and local tax dollars are not wasted on futile efforts to protect homes needlessly placed in areas of obvious high hazard.
The Beach: a River of Sand
You get up in the morning and go out on the beach. It is the same beach you walked on yesterday. Tomorrow you will go to the same beach and it will be there as always. The tide may have brought in some new shells or possibly some trash, but the beach is the beach. It hasn’t gone anywhere. That is an illusion.
Row Erupts over Jamaica’s Bid to Slow Beach Erosion
A plan that government says will slow the rate of erosion on Jamaica’s world-famous Negril beach is being opposed by the people whose livelihoods it is meant to protect. Those opposing the plan say the structures will do more damage than good.
U.S. Cities Lag in Race against Rising Seas
In just a few decades, most U.S. coastal regions are likely to experience at least 30 days of nuisance flooding every year.
Coral Reefs Threatened by Changing Ocean Conditions
Erosion rates increase tenfold in areas where corals are also exposed to high levels of nutrients, according to a study published January 2015 in the journal Geology. As sea level rises, these reefs may have a harder time growing toward the ocean surface, where they get sunlight they need to survive.
Progreso’s Prolonged Pier, Yucatan
The pier that extends from Progreso into the Gulf of Mexico is among the longest such structures in the world. Despite its arches, the structure as a whole has likely decreased the amount of sediment transported alongshore, leading to updrift accretion and downdraft erosion.
Erosion Creates Dangerous Situation on Waikiki Beach
Over the past several months severe erosion has caused a concrete slab near the water’s edge at Kuhio Beach to become exposed. Beach erosion in Waikiki has been a problem for decades and has resulted in at least 10 sand replenishment projects since 1939. 300,000 cubic yards of sand has been placed onto Waikiki Beach over the past 77 years.