Colombia’s Receding Coastline – Jacobin

View of the Atrato River Delta, Colombia, March 27, 2007 (Courtesy of NASA - taken by an Expedition 14 crewmember onboard the International Space Station shows the Atrato River Delta and Gulf of Urabá in Colombia CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr).

In Colombia, coastal erosion caused by a combination of climate change and environmentally destructive industrial agriculture is displacing the country’s poorest citizens. But the scale of the disaster means that it has no easy solutions…

California regulators approve huge Ocean Beach seawall – San Francisco Chronicle

Ocean Beach in San Francisco, along the Great Highway. (by Sara Rosado, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, via Flickr).

On Thursday, California’s main coastal protection agency approved a $175 million climate-related project that will transform the southern portion of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach despite fierce opposition from some members of the public. A sticking point is a massive seawall that some surfers fear could make the beach disappear…