Half of the world’s beaches could disappear by the end of the century, study finds
Climate change poses an existential threat to the world’s sandy beaches, and that as many as half of them could disappear by the end of the century, a new study has found. The study was published Monday in the scientific Journal Nature Climate Change and was conducted by scientists from the European Commission’s Joint Research Center, as well as universities in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.
A mini-Mississippi river may help save Louisiana’s vanishing coast
A scale model of a bend in the river in Louisiana, painstakingly recreated at 1/65th scale, right down to the simulated sand. The model is one of the most striking parts of an ambitious project to rebuild Louisiana’s vanishing coast.
As Gulf swallows Louisiana island, displaced tribe fears the future
Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana. Photo source: ©© Maitri Excerpts; It’s all but assumed Isle de Jean Charles will one day disappear beneath the waves… Read Full Article; MSN (02-27-2020) Resettling the First American Climate Refugees – Louisiana; The New York Times (05-03-2016) The Isle de Jean Charles resettlement plan is one of the first […]
As SC island homes fall into ocean, owners behind them wonder if they’re next
This small slip of land on the eastern tip of Beaufort County is the legacy of an opportunistic time when a wave of businessmen descended on the South Carolina coast keen-eyed for fragments of paradise to package and sell off.
Natural disasters could cost 20 percent more by 2040 due to climate change
Climate change could add more than 20 percent, or $100 billion annually, to the cost of extreme weather events around the world by 2040, according to a new analysis by researchers at Cambridge University.
Study examines coastal erosion, drawbacks of standard setback requirements
Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care Excerpts; Research on the Big Island’s coastal erosion, led by a University of Hawaii at Hilo graduate student, is being used to shape county planning policies. Hawaii County is the only county in the state that hasn’t done research to understand the island’s shoreline changes. Despite the island’s differing […]
Series of coastal engineering projects underway amid race to save Waikiki Beach
A $700,000 — 95-foot-long sand bag groin made of 83, 10,000-pound bags of sand — installed in November to restore the coastline and slow erosion at Kuhio Beach, is to be followed by another more expensive project.
Can these giant dams keep Europe from drowning?
A plan for a giant a 400-mile enclosure, The Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED), would cut off the North and Baltic Seas from the Atlantic Ocean to protect 15 European countries from those rising seas. The project’s scale is unprecedented. Its cost phenomenal. But it’s still cheaper than all the alternatives—including doing nothing.
On rising Great Lakes, backyards are disappearing overnight
Document and near-record water ranges in all 5 Nice Lakes are inflicting tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in injury from Minnesota to New York as eroding shorelines and monster waves trigger properties to plummet into the water.