Storms dramatically eroded midcoast Maine’s sand dunes last winter – the Bangor Daily News
It was clear after a series of storms hit Maine’s coast last winter that they took away lots of sand from the state’s beaches. Now, state officials have gathered the data — and it turns out the erosion was record-breaking. …
U.S. East Coast adopts ‘living shorelines’ approach to keep rising seas at bay – Mongabay
Excerpt: Along the U.S. East Coast, communities are grappling with the dual destructive forces of rising sea levels and stronger storms pushed by climate change, resulting in effects ranging from ‘ghost forests’ of saltwater-killed coastal trees in the Carolinas, to inundations of New York City’s subway system. While the usual response has been to build […]