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Chinese Ship Inches Closer To Vietnam Coastline Amid South China Sea Tensions
2019-08-24 13:00:19| OGI
A Chinese survey vessel on Saturday extended its activities to an area closer to Vietnam's coastline, ship tracking data showed, after the United States and Australia expressed concern about China's actions in the disputed waterways.
Regional Recycling Partners with Ocean Legacy to Support Ocean and Coastline Cleanup
2018-07-05 16:27:38| Waste Age
Funds collected from Regional Recyclings donation bins will be given to the Ocean Legacy Foundation.
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Heres how life looks on Louisianas forgotten coastline
2016-08-10 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The coast of southeast Louisiana is disappearing faster than anywhere else in the world - scientists estimate a football field of land is lost to rising sea levels every hour. With the earth literally shifting beneath their feet, communities have to adapt. Many families are stalwartly digging in, elevating their properties to precarious heights, though perhaps no more precarious than the conditions theyre responding to. Other residents appear to be living life as usual, enjoying the degree of...
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Thick, Putrid Algae Bloom Overwhelms Miles Of Florida Coastline
2016-07-02 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A massive bloom of blue-green algae has hit four southern Florida counties, blanketing beaches in foul-smelling muck and raising health and environmental concerns. The green goo along Florida's "Treasure Coast" prompted Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency in Martin and St. Lucie counties earlier this week, and he later added Lee and Palm Beach counties. Scott "blamed the federal government for neglecting repairs to the lake's aging dike that's considered one of the country's most at-risk...
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Antarctic coastline images reveal four decades of ice loss to ocean
2016-06-05 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: A study of images along 2000km of West Antarctica's coastline has shown the loss of about 1000km2 of ice - an area equivalent to the city of Berlin - over the past 40 years. Researchers were surprised to find that the region has been losing ice for such a length of time. Their findings will help improve estimates of global sea level rise caused by ice melt. A research team from the University of Edinburgh analysed hundreds of satellite photographs of the ice margin captured by NASA, the United...