Natrx representatives say: until now, there was no practical way to assess and prioritize coastal ecosystems at this speed ...

A major share of infrastructure, population and economic activities in Seychelles are located in the country’s coastal zone. In order to protect its coastline from ongoing erosion, the government of ...

New research has systematically demonstrated that a mild zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for generations -- greatly reducing the threat of erosion in the face of climate change ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 65: Proceedings of the 12th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS 2013, Volume 2 (2013), pp. 1710-1714 (5 pages) There has recently been growing concern about ...

OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Coastal communities like the Outer Banks are grappling with the realities of rapid erosion in areas of our community and how to address it with a push in Buxton for a rebuilding of ...

As efforts step up to protect coastal regions affected by erosion, scientists have found an unexpected way to protect communities—zapping the shoreline with electricity. In a study published in the ...

Industrial and urban development along the coast may exacerbate the changes induced by oceano-climatic processes to such an extent that the coast becomes uninhabitable. This paper presents a baseline ...

For as long as David Cottrell could remember, his hometown had been falling into the sea. In the early 1960s, when Cottrell was 3 years old, an abandoned US Coast Guard station teetered over the water ...

As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is waning due to melting permafrost and worsening coastal erosion, according to new research. A study published ...

A project to initiate a Maalaea Village Coastal Resilience and Erosion Management Plan will begin Tuesday, the Maui County Planning Department announced last week. The project, which will cover the ...