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Coastlines are always in flux. In addition to facing wind, waves and currents, coasts are subject to fluctuating water levels, changing sediment supply, seasonal weather patterns, and growth cycles of biological organisms such as kelp and coral. Monitoring these changes is important for the millions of people that live along coasts in the U.S., particularly as climate change
While concerns over sea-level rise have typically focused on the ocean washing over previously dry land, higher seas also raise the coastal groundwater table — and that could expose far more Californians and their property to climate-change effects than overland flooding.
Print Last year, California’s massive wildfires were impossible to ignore. Four million acres burned. People and animals died, homes were lost, power faltered for days at a time, air quality deteriorated, the sky over San Francisco turned orange. And yet as massive a challenge as wildfire presents — especially as we face another drought year — a different climate crisis could rival it as a destroyer of the California dream: sea level rise. Most of California’s economy and its people — over $2 trillion in GDP; 68% of the population — are located in its coastal counties. Rising seas...
Shelby Township police searching for bank robbery suspect Advertisement SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Shelby Township Police Department is searching for a suspect who was recorded on surveillance video robbing a bank in Shelby Township Dec. 28. Shelby Township police responded to an alert that a man had entered the PNC Bank located at 45125 Hayes Road, at Hall Road, at 1:28 p.m. Dec. 28 wearing a mask and work gloves and that he then presented the teller with a note demanding money. The robber placed the money from the teller in a blue fabric bag that the robber had brought with him. After obtainin...
 A 25-year-old woman was arraigned on multiple weapons offenses following a weekend shooting in Shelby Township that resulted in the victim crashing her vehicle, which then caught fire. Simone Powell was charged Monday in 41A District Court on four felony charges stemming from the incident at Fox Lane Apartments off West Utica Road near Mound Road. - Advertisement - The incident took place about 4:25 a.m. Saturday when officers were dispatched to a report of several subjects arguing in the street. While officers were on their way, the call was upgraded to a call of shots fired after o...