Coastal Erosion

Now you see it now you don't

Disappearing beaches in Gambia 0
Posted 1 month ago Hotel managers in Gambia say without the beach the tourists will not come but the beach in front of the country’s two landmark hotels is disappearing pretty fast. It is a very serious state of affairs for a country that derives a major percentage of its income from tourism.
The rising tide of environmental refugees 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Our early twenty-first century civilization is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the biologically productive land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking.
a sea change in climate

As the land disappears, an Indian tribe plans to abandon its ancestral Louisiana home 6
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago For at least 170 years, Isle de Jean Charles -- a narrow ridge of land lying between Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Pointe-aux-Chene in southeastern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish -- has been home to members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha tribe, native people related to the Choctaw and part of a larger confederation of Muskogees. But the tribe's history is about to take a dramatic turn due to climate change.
Morocco’s unique vulnerability to climate change 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
With most of its economic activity near the coast, no legislation preventing building in the coastal zone and the government reportedly selling coastal land to developers at notional prices, climate change is a real threat to Morocco.
while we're young?

White House announces Gulf restoration task force amid criticism of Army Corps 0
Posted 3 months ago
In response to criticism that the Army Corps of Engineers has failed to take needed action, President Obama is creating a federal task force to overhaul management of coastal restoration efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi.
the perils of mixing oil and water

Sen. Landrieu’s plan to export Louisiana’s coastal destruction to Florida 2
Posted 3 months ago
While Louisiana struggles to restore coastal wetlands ravaged in large part by decades of oil and gas drilling, its senior senator is leading the effort to lift the ban on drilling off Florida's Panhandle.
The Coastest With the Leastest 0
Posted 4 years, 2 months ago
How Stella Got Her Mangrove Back 0
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago
Oh, Yes! It’s Mr. Bill! 0
Posted 5 years, 10 months ago
Space Goes Coast to Coast 0
Posted 7 years, 4 months ago
Endless Summer? 0
Posted 10 years, 3 months ago