Malibu’s Residents Plot New $20 Million Plan to Stop Sand Erosion
For several years, the wealthy residents of the exclusive oceanfront enclave at the north end of Malibu have been fighting both Mother Nature and environmentalists over their plan to tax themselves $20 million to widen their shore, which has eroded in recent decades to a slender strip unrecognizable from its namesake.
Life-Giving Deltas Starved by Dams
At a time when coastal areas are already battered by climate change, life-giving deltas are being sacrificed to dam building.
Fiji Leads Pacific Region on Climate Adaptation Efforts
Still a long way off in many parts of the world, climate displacement is already a reality in the Pacific Islands, where rising seas are contaminating fresh water and agricultural land, and rendering some coastal areas uninhabitable.
11 Islands With Amazing Biodiversity
Around the globe, islands preserve habitats for a wealth of unique plants and animals on land and in the water.