Residents to Pay for Sand Replenishment at Malibu Beach, CA
Residents of Malibu’s Broad Beach have agreed to pay $31 million over the next decade to truck in tons of sand to build up the diminished shoreline filled with homes of the rich and famous.
An Intolerable Unimaginable Heat Forecast For Persian Gulf
If carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current pace, by the end of century parts of the Persian Gulf will sometimes be just too hot for the human body to tolerate, a new study says.
Morocco Poised to Become a Solar Superpower With Launch of Desert Mega-Project
World’s largest concentrated solar power plant, powered by the Saharan sun, set to help renewables provide almost half of Morocco’s energy by 2020.
Asia’s Coasts to Experience Most Extreme Weather
Over the next 50 years, people living at low altitudes in developing countries, particularly those in coastal Asia, will suffer the most from extreme weather patterns, according to researchers.
A Delicate Balance: Protecting Northwest’s Glass Sponge Reefs
Rare and extensive reefs of glass sponges are found only one place on earth – a stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast. Now, efforts are underway to identify and protect these fragile formations before they are obliterated by fishing vessels that trawl the bottom.