Louisiana’s sinking coast is a $100 Billion nightmare for big oil
From 5,000 feet up, it’s difficult to make out where Louisiana’s coastline used to be. But follow the skeletal remains of decades-old oil canals, and you get an idea. Once, these lanes sliced through thick marshland, clearing a path for pipelines or ships. Now they’re surrounded by open water, green borders still visible as the sea swallows up the shore.
Climate change will redraw Louisiana’s flood risk maps
There is a lot of water in southern Louisiana right now. But the climate science prognosis doesn’t look good. This is the eighth time in about a year that 500-year rainfall has hammered the U.S., and climate change will make extreme weather events like this more common.
Experts Clash on Age of Land Bridge Connecting Americas
Finding the age of the Isthmus of Panama – the land bridge connecting the Americas -, has even broader implications. “It’s a fundamental question with major consequences for understanding ecology, evolution and the origin of life today in the seas and land of the Americas…”
Climate change prompts Shishmaref, Alaska, to vote for mainland move
Residents of a tiny island village in Alaska that has been ravaged by erosion blamed on climate change have voted to move to the mainland, but there likely isn’t enough money for the impoverished community of just 600 people to follow through on the decision.