Life-Giving Deltas Starved by Dams
At a time when coastal areas are already battered by climate change, life-giving deltas are being sacrificed to dam building.
Conservationists Call On House To Stop Looser Beach Erosion Rules, SC
Environmentalists denounced a bill to let a handful of property owners rebuild the aging Debordieu seawall, despite a state law that banned seawalls about a quarter century ago. The ban, adopted as part of the 1988 beach management act, was enacted because seawalls are known to make beach erosion worse when slammed by waves.
Vanishing Clams on an Iberian Beach: Consequences and Implications of Loss of Shells to Tourism
A four-fold increase in global tourist arrivals over the last 30 years may have induced a comparable worldwide acceleration in shell removal from marine shorelines, resulting in multiple, currently unquantifiable, habitat changes such as increased beach erosion.
The Physics of Ocean Undertow: Creating More Robust And Sustainable Beaches?
People standing on a beach often feel the water tugging the sand away from under their feet. This is the undertow, the current that pulls water back into the ocean after a wave breaks on the beach. Large storms produce strong undertows that can strip beaches of sand.
Beach Sand Mining Detrimental Effects Explained, Saint- Louis, Senegal
Environmental expert Babacar Gaye explains how gravely coastal erosion is affecting Senegal, notably underlying the detrimental consequences of sand mining in Saint-Louis’ region (Barbary Tongue).
The Folly Of Poorly Executed Beach Renourishment
“Folly’s beach $30 million dredging/renourishment project is a fiasco that eclipses the 2009 dredging of live artillery onto the beach during a project in Surf City, N.J…” By journalist Chris Dixon.
Florida Communities Prepare For Rising Seas
While the nation looks for solutions to the problem of rising sea levels, some coastal communities in Florida are taking action to save themselves from sinking into the ocean…
DamNation; a Documentary That’s Testing the Waters of Corporate Social Responsibility
DamNation is a feature documentary, shown this week at SXSW in Austin, Tx. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.
Saving Caribbean Tourism from the Sea
Faced with the prospect of losing miles of beautiful white beaches, and the millions in tourist dollars that come with them, from erosion driven by climate change, Barbados is taking steps to protect its coastline as a matter of economic survival.