Hurricane Sandy Challenges Short-Term Thinking On Nation’s Coasts
America is an aggressively coastal nation. While accounting for just 13 percent of the nation’s total land mass, coastal counties, including those along the two oceans and the Great Lakes, are home to roughly half the U.S. population, the authors noted, and 60 percent of civilian income…
Sculpting Of An Erodible Body By Flowing Water
Erosion by flowing fluids carves striking landforms on Earth and also provides important clues to the past and present environments of other worlds.
Superstorm Sandy: Interactive Before And After Images
Parts of the New Jersey coastline before and after the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Venice High Water Floods 70% of City
Venice’s high water, or “acqua alta”, said to be the sixth highest since 1872, flooded 70% of the city and was high enough to make raised wooden platforms for pedestrians float away.