Beach Pollution: How We Can All Play a Part in Keeping Our Oceans Clean
This year the Travel Foundation’s Make Holidays Greener campaign (#greenerhols) has a direct and urgent message. We need to keep plastic rubbish off our beaches so that it doesn’t pollute our seas.
Coastal Erosion Eats Away at Mokau, New Zealand
At one pristine coastal spot in the Waikato, less than $100,000 can buy you a tidy, three-bedroom bach. The catch is, the sea may steal the land underneath it at some point in the future.
Northern Alaska Coastal Erosion Threatens Habitat and Infrastructure
In a new study published July 1st, scientists from the U.S.G.S found that the remote northern Alaska coast has some of the highest shoreline erosion rates in the world. Analyzing over half a century of shoreline change data, scientists found the pattern is extremely variable with most of the coast retreating at rates of more than 1 meter a year.