Cancun’s Beaches: Vanishing Sand and Wasted Money
In a major restoration project last year, millions of cubic yards (meters) of sand were dredged from the sandy bottom of the Caribbean and pumped ashore in Cancun. The project created a seven-mile stretch of beach some 40 to 70 yards (meters) wide, at a cost of about $70 million. It is already washing away.
Many Coastal Wetlands Likely to Disappear this Century
Many coastal wetlands worldwide, including several on the U.S. Atlantic coast, may be more sensitive than previously thought to sea-level rise projections for the 21st century.
Norfolk, Virginia, Tackles Rise in Sea
Like many other cities, Norfolk was built on filled-in marsh.
The Last house of Sinking Chesapeake Bay Island
The story was strange enough to be a child’s fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly from the water. And, scurrying around it, there was a retiree, trying to keep the house from falling in.
Cancún must be about more than climate change
Our planet is finite, our fates are intertwined, our choice is clear: stand together or fall divided.
Bangladesh and Maldives: Sand Export Deal in Sight
Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed expressed keenness to import sand from Bangladesh, as his country would be inundated if the sea level rises by only a metre.
Sinking Sundarbans: A Photo Gallery by Peter Caton, Greenpeace
The seas around the islands in the Bay of Bengal that support a unique mangrove ecosystem, are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth, and the lives and livelihoods of more than 4 million residents are under threat from rising waters.
From the East and West Coasts, a Game Plan on Sea Level Rise
New York State and California are creating blueprints for how governments should plan, and pay for, a wholesale retreat from the shoreline in anticipation of a possible rise in sea level of three or four feet or more by 2100.
As world warms, negotiators give talks another try
The disappointment of Copenhagen, the failure of the annual U.N. conference to produce a climate agreement last year in the Danish capital, has raised doubts about whether the long-running, 194-nation talks can ever agree on a legally binding treaty for reining in global warming.