Tanzania: Rising Sea Ruins Isles Beaches
The Union Government cannot just look at Zanzibar sinking without providing help, said officials after a short tour to areas affected by erosion caused by the sea rise. Negative impacts of climate change in the Islands are real, and aggravated by people’s unnecessary cutting down of trees, and illegal mining to get sand and stones as building materials.
Coastal Kenyan villages bringing their mangrove forest back to life
A community on Kenya’s east coast is fighting climate change with its own mangrove restoration, conservation and carbon-trading project
El Niño prolongs longest global coral bleaching event
Global warming and the current intense El Niño are prolonging the longest global coral die-off on record, according to NOAA scientists, who will will present the latest global bleaching update and outlook Friday, Feb. 26 at the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans.
Cape Cod Beach Erosion
With the bluff in the area washing away at 1-2 feet a year, homeowners know they’re at the mercy of mother nature…