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United Kingdom: Severe weather warnings as high tides put coastline at high risk of flooding
2014-01-03 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Britain is bracing itself for another series of devastating storms, as high tides, heavy rains and strong winds combine to cause yet more severe flooding to parts of the country. The whole of the UK is facing exceptional bad weather in the coming days, with a high risk of flooding expected, particularly in coastal towns and villages. The Environment Agency (EA) has issued 21 of the most serious severe flood warnings, indicating that there is a threat to life or property, to areas in the South...
Federal Agencies Remap Hurricane Damaged Coastline
2013-09-03 22:47:38| ENR.com: Headline News
Hurricane Sandy destroyed the shorelines and seabeds of the Eastern coast to such an extent that Federal agencies plan to remap the coastline.
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Survey finds 4,000 items of litter for each km of Northern Ireland coastline
2013-08-07 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There are more than 4,000 items of litter on every kilometreof Northern Ireland's beaches and shores, a new survey has revealed. A report by Tidy Northern Ireland for the Department of the Environment has found that 14 beaches and shorelines were strewn with rubbish included sheep carcasses and the chassis of an abandoned truck. Nearly three-quarters of the litter was plastic, including cigarette lighters and bottles (290 for each km) while there were also crisp packets and pieces of rope and string...
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Historic sea-level change along New Jersey coastline mapped
2013-05-29 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Hurricane Sandy caught the public and policymakers off guard when it hit the United States' Atlantic Coast last fall. Because much of the storm's devastation was wrought by flooding in the aftermath, researchers have been paying attention to how climate change and sea-level rise may have played a role in the disaster and how those factors may impact the shoreline in the future. A new study led by the University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin P. Horton, an associate professor in the Department of Earth...
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Rebuilding the coastline, but at what cost?
2013-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When a handful of retired homeowners from Osborn Island in New Jersey gathered last month to discuss post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding and environmental protection, L. Stanton Hales Jr., a conservationist, could not have been clearer about the risks they faced. I said, look people, you built on a marsh island, its oxidizing under your feet its shrinking and that exacerbates the sea level rise, said Dr. Hales, director of the Barnegat Bay Partnership, an estuary program financed by the Environmental...
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