Giant waves are becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the surf's increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.
Around the world, communities are bracing for sea level rise: the Netherlands is stabilizing its dikes, Senegal is relocating neighbourhoods, Indonesia is moving its entire capital city. These projects are hefty, expensive and slow. But they may need to pick up the pace.
One of the great infrastructure challenges of the next few decades is to figure out which coastal sites should be abandoned and which can be saved. Lichens can help.
The desire for waterfront property on Canada’s east coast is fuelling a shoreline building boom, as landowners and developers rush to beat pending regulations that could curb coastal development.