"Coastal erosion" refers to the gradual wearing away, or loss, of land along the coast due to the natural action of waves, tides, and other processes. It is when the land along the coast slowly gets eroded or worn away over time.
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Researchers have long understood that global sea level rise will affect the rate
of coastal erosion.
The island nation's future is under threat from anticipated global sea level rise, with many of its islands already suffering
from coastal erosion.
At the very local scale, members of the general public can now make assessments without expert assistance if their houses are threatened
by coastal erosion.
The variability, changes and trends in
coastal erosion at the beaches have been tracked since 1976.
Students monitor water quality, plant trees to
halt coastal erosion, and educate others about the importance of environmental stewardship.
It truly is a beautiful part of the world, such a
shame coastal erosion is slowly taking it away from us.
It was the end of the Ice Age that initiated
dramatic coastal erosion and only a return to those frozen years will stop it.
But the ranks of climate alarmists are filled with legions of scientific ignoranti who blindly see such
coastal erosion as another «proof» of impending CO2 - caused climate hell.
Pacific storms with waves 20 percent stronger than normal hammered the West Coast of North America in 2009 - 2010,
causing coastal erosion rates to spike, the U.S. Geological Survey announced this week.
For 150 years,
severe coastal erosion from groundwater and the North Sea has undermined land near the beaches — but that's not always a bad thing.
Third - grade students from Zachary Elementary traveled to Grand Isle to plant bitter panticum, a marsh grass, in the fight
against coastal erosion.
BUILD RESILIENCY by supporting our local municipalities and County and help fund efforts to
address coastal erosion and flood mitigation and manage our wetlands.
DEC spokesperson Emily DeSantis says the department's operations budget would remain flat and the cuts would be to the part of the budget that pays for capital works projects, things
like coastal erosion prevention and flood mitigation, that are contracted out by the department.
Acting for national leisure operator in pursing multi-million stautory compensation claim
for coastal erosion against a port operator
What about earthquake - induced elevation change,
coastal erosion change following a cliff fall, temperature and precipitation change from variation in ocean currents, effects of ENSO, PDO and AMO, etc..?
In addition to court precedents, Florida law
requires coastal erosion disclosures, radon gas, mandatory membership in a homeowner's association and condo disclosures.
In addition to court precedents, Florida law requires
coastal erosion disclosures, radon gas, mandatory membership in a homeowner's association and condo disclosures.
As part of ongoing research, the resulting erosion hazard zones are overlain on aerial photos and other geographic layers in a geographic information system to provide a tool for identifying resources, infrastructure and property exposed to
future coastal erosion.
During the final weeks of Obama's presidency, Congress passed a water infrastructure bill that aimed, among other things, to curb
worsening coastal erosion.
Many factors
affect coastal erosion, but new research along the coast of two Hawaiian islands suggests that sea level rise can be the strongest erosional force.
From a story on «how a donkey inspired a community to save itself» to a family divided on wind power to concerns about
coastal erosion through the eyes of a Texas town, the radio series captures the struggles of every - day Americans as they come to terms with change in their communities.
My heart goes out to the activists working to save all these spots, from the ongoing fight to save Trestles from being destroyed by road development, to the efforts to restore Ocean Beach and Pacifica from the negative effects of
accelerated coastal erosion.
However, on September 2, 2015, the President announced that the Denali Commission will play a lead coordination role for federal, state, and tribal resources to assist communities in developing and implementing both short - and long - term solutions to address the impacts of climate change,
including coastal erosion, flooding, and permafrost degradation.
In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and
coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»
We wanted to share this story because Surfer's Point is a perfect example of how local communities can work together to proactively
fight coastal erosion and adapt to climate change impacts.
In Louisiana, the 10,000 miles of canals dug to transport oil and lay pipelines contribute to
coastal erosion because the canals crisscross the state's coastal wetlands.
«With global warming, sea level rise is enhancing
coastal erosion not only in Aringay but in all the coastal areas of the Philippines.
In 2003, she sued the organizers of California Coastal Records Project, a group
documenting coastal erosion in the state using aerial photographs, because one of their helicopter snaps included views of the singer - songwriter - actress - filmmaker's Malibu home.
The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals heard comments on a controversial application that could set a precedent for
coastal erosion structures in the town.
Pohnpei itself shows
little coastal erosion, perhaps because it is fairly high above sea level and ringed by mangrove forest.
«This study demonstrates a methodology that can be used by many shoreline communities to assess their exposure to
coastal erosion resulting from the climate crisis,» said Chip Fletcher, associate dean at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and co-author on the paper.
«Global climate change has
made coastal erosion a topical issue in the 21st Century, but Dunwich demonstrates that it has happened before.
For the study «Doubling of
coastal erosion under rising sea level by mid-century in Hawaiʻi,» published this week in Natural Hazards, the research team developed a simple model to assess future erosion hazards under higher sea levels — taking into account historical changes of Hawaiʻi shorelines and the projected acceleration of sea level rise reported from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).