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Tag: West Africa

A streak of record global heat nears one-year mark – the Washington Post

Much Too Hot To Be Out (by Sue Thompson CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED via Flickr).

Hurricanes are more frequently escalating quickly, and the places they destroy may be those disadvantaged by racist housing policy…

Sweltering Lagos Has 25 Million People and Zero Free Public Beaches – Bloomberg

Tarkwa Bay Beach, Lagos, Nigeria, 2010 (by Nick M CC BY 2.0 DEED via Flickr).

Nigeria’s commercial capital boasts miles of white sand along the Atlantic Ocean that once teemed with locals looking to beat the heat. So what happened?

Can the ‘sand motor’ save West Africa’s eroding coast? – Grist Magazine

Aerial view of the middle of Zandmotor Beach, a large peninsula constructed on the coast of the Netherlands near the The Hague (by Joop van Houdt, courtesy of Rijkswaterstaat, Public Domain via Flickr).

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…

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