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May 18, 2021 —Combining natural salt marsh habitats with conventional dikes may provide a more sustainable alternative for fully engineered flood protection. Researchers studied how salt marsh management can be ...
Nov. 28, 2022 —Researchers show that seagrass can reduce cliff erosion by up to 70% thanks to its root mats binding the ...
Oct. 27, 2020 —An international team of coastal scientists has dismissed suggestions that half the world's beaches could become extinct over the course of the 21st ...
June 18, 2021 —The combination of sea level rise, tides, storm surge and waves has increased the overtopping of natural and artificial coastal protection by nearly 50% in the last two ...
Nov. 18, 2022 —Rock coasts, which make up over half the world's coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level ...
Dec. 28, 2020 —Researchers have always known that waves were an important part of the cliff erosion process, but they haven't been able to separate the influence of waves and rain before. After decades of ...
Jan. 11, 2022 —Arctic coasts are characterized by sea ice, permafrost and ground ice. This makes them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which is already accelerating rapid coastal ...
Dec. 7, 2020 —The mangrove forests on Java's north coast are slowly suffocating in plastic waste. The plastic problem in northeast Asia is huge and a growing threat to the region's mangroves; a natural ...
Sep. 21, 2020 —The reactive and piecemeal approach historically used to manage beaches in Hawai'i has failed to protect them. If policies are not changed, as much as 40% of all beaches on O'ahu, ...
Oct. 16, 2020 —Sea floor sediments of the Arctic Ocean can reveal how permafrost responds to climate warming. Researchers have found evidence of past permafrost thawing during climate warming events at the end of ...
