Kerala: Caught Between Quarries And Sea Erosion
After more than a century of fighting sea erosion by massively dumping granite boulders along the beaches of southern Kerala state, environmentalists and administrators are beginning to see that this has been a costly and ineffective solution. Hills are vanishing as vast pits are gouged out to extract granite illegally in India’s prime tourism state…
Arctic sea ice shatters previous low records; Antarctic sea ice edges to record high.
This September, sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean fell to the lowest extent in the satellite record, which began in 1979.