Pilkey’s Call: Save The Beaches

Beaches move, and with rising sea levels they are moving faster. People try to slow or halt the process by dredging up sand or erecting imposing seawalls, but those are destructive and doomed efforts. To save the beaches, we must let beaches go where and how they want.

Blooms off Both North American Coasts

Phytoplankton are to the ocean what grasses and other ground cover are to land: the primary producers, the basic food source and carbon recycler for the rest of the environment. Algae and other forms of phytoplankton are floating, plant-like organisms that soak up sunshine, sponge up nutrients, and create their own food (energy).

Typhoon Soudelor Impacts

Typhoon Soudelor battered Taiwan and made landfall in China on Saturday after killing at least six, leaving four missing and causing a record-breaking amount of power outages.