Whose job is it to save North Topsail Beach ?
The Atlantic Ocean is eroding parts of North Topsail Beach by about five feet per year. The town of 800 residents is running out of cash and solutions in its efforts to protect its north shore. Whose job is to save this popular North Carolina tourist destination?
Indonesia to resume work on giant seawall
Greater Jakarta, one of the world’s most densely populated cities, sits on a swampy plain and is sinking at a faster rate than any other city in the world.
‘Ghost Forests’ Appear As Rising Seas Kill Trees
Bare trunks of dead coastal forests are being discovered up and down the mid-Atlantic coastline, killed by the advance of rising seas. The “ghost forests,” as scientists call them, offer eerie evidence of some of the world’s fastest rates of sea level rise.
Lives in the balance: climate change and the Marshall Islands
The numerous atolls that make up the island nation are now regularly swamped due to sea level rise. But as more people flee for the US, many fear their culture will be lost to a country that has already taken so much from them.
Here’s why private property can become the public’s beach, NC
Unknown to many residents and tourists is the potentially pesky fact that property lines for most oceanfront lots extend well onto the dry sand beach.
Flooding of coast caused by global warming, has already begun
Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical.
Hermine a Coastal Flood, Erosion Menace from Delmarva Peninsula to southeast New England Through Labor Day
Hermine is expected to slowly meander off the Northeast coast through Tuesday, and will continue to impact areas from the Delmarva Peninsula to southeast New England with battering waves, coastal flooding and beach erosion over the next couple of days.
Thousands of Homes Keep Flooding, Yet They Keep Being Rebuilt Again
Can you imagine living in a property that has flooded 10 times? How about 20 times? These properties—and more than 30,000 others that have flooded multiple times—illustrate the current problems of the National Flood Insurance Program and also provide some insights into how challenging it will be to cope with sea level rise, flooding due to extreme weather, as well as other impacts of climate change.
Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise
The cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines masked the full impact of greenhouse gases on accelerating sea level rise, according to a new study.