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Tag: USA

Dammed but Not Doomed – Hakai Magazine

Illustration of the fish Alewife. Alosa pseudoharengus. (Courtesy of NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED, via Flickr).

As dams come down on the Skutik River, the once-demonized alewife—a fish beloved by the Passamaquoddy—gets a second chance at life…

The East Coast Is Sinking | Interactive – the New York Times

Charleston, South Carolina, is among the cities scrambling to react to subsidence and rising seas. This city of 800,000 people is one of the fastest sinking cities (about 4 millimeters per year) in the eastern U.S (caption by by Adam Voiland and image by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Ohenhen, Leonard O., et al. (2023) courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory).

New satellite-based research reveals how land along the coast is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level rise.
A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater.

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