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Cape Cod Times Gordon Peabody likes to say that his company, Safe Harbor, uses the power of the wind and waves to rebuild natural shoreline protections like beaches and dunes. One technique involves placing thousands of slats in random patterns on a beach mimicking stalks of beach grass. In theory, they slow down wave velocity causing the sand it carries to settle out and bulk up a beach instead of destroying it. If there's one trend Peabody has noticed in over 30 years of work, it's the raw power he thinks climate change has injected into storms. It's what he saw at Ballston Beach in Truro...
Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say By Jeff Berardelli Climate crisis: Global tipping points close Through decades of research, and now lived experience, it has become clear that the impacts of climate change will have drastic and far-reaching consequences on our planet. And while some of those consequences are predictable — like more extreme weather, sea-level rise and loss of biodiversity — the pace at which these unfold and their eventual severity hinge on what happens with key linchpins in the climate system, called tipping points. A...
Miamiâs sea level rise bill â $4 billion by 2060 â still wonât keep every neighborhood dry So what kind of solutions does $3.8 billion buy? Â Â Visitors walk through a tunnel that connects the parking lot to the beach on Monday June 29, 2020 at Haulover Beach Park in North Miami Beach, Fl. [ SUSAN STOCKER / SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL | South Florida Sun Sentinel ] Published 1 hour ago Updated 1 hour ago MIAMI â Miami has to spend at least $3.8 billion in the next 40 years to keep the city dry from rising seas, according to a draft of the cityâs long-await...
Crashing waves were clearly eroding the land around a National Weather Service station on Massachusetts' Cape Cod. Still, officials thought it would stand for another 10 years...