Newsletter: Essential California: How to react when the sea is rising
5 years, 6 months ago

Newsletter: Essential California: How to react when the sea is rising

LA Times  

Along Esplanade Avenue in Pacifica, a walkway is all that’s left of an apartment building. Los Angeles Times Rep. Eric Swalwell abandoned his uphill run for president Monday, as another California Democrat, Tom Steyer, who had earlier said he would not mount a 2020 presidential run, prepared to announce that he would be entering the race. Los Angeles Times Get the Essential California newsletter » L.A. Los Angeles Times Lucy Jones didn’t feel the 7.1 earthquake but helped the world understand it. AND FINALLY Today’s California memory comes from Judy Samuelson: “It was my freshman year at UCLA — Feb. 9, 1971, to be exact — when the Sylmar quake struck the San Fernando Valley.

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Residents on every U.S. coast are looking for solutions for rising sea levels
1 month ago

Residents on every U.S. coast are looking for solutions for rising sea levels

NPR  

Residents on every U.S. coast are looking for solutions for rising sea levels Communities along the three U.S. coastlines are exploring solutions for rising sea levels. This city's edge, with towering skyscrapers, metro lines and big tech companies is separated from San Francisco Bay by a sea wall that doubles as one of the city's main tourist attractions. ROMERO: UC …

NASA data provides crucial insights for tackling rising sea levels globally
2 months ago

NASA data provides crucial insights for tackling rising sea levels globally

India TV News  

Coastal communities across the world are facing the harsh realities of rising sea levels, threatening infrastructure and daily life. NASA Collaborates with Global Agencies for Sea-Level Data NASA has released a comprehensive tool designed to help governments and organizations around the world combat the challenges posed by rising sea levels. Collaborating with institutions like the US Department of Defense, the …

Surfs up takes on new meaning as California waves get bigger as Earth warms, research finds
1 year, 5 months ago

Surfs up takes on new meaning as California waves get bigger as Earth warms, research finds

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Giant waves, measuring as high …

Rising sea levels pose perilous threat to California coast as study raises new alarms
2 years, 11 months ago

Rising sea levels pose perilous threat to California coast as study raises new alarms

LA Times  

Joe Dombroski fishes off public access stairs during high tide at Broad Beach in Malibu. “As much as anywhere, here on the West Coast our sea level rise is very closely attached to global warming,” Hamlington said. What’s more, sea level rise “does not act alone,” the researchers said. “There will be highly variable impacts along those coastlines, but there’s …

U.S. could see a century’s worth of sea rise in just 30 years
2 years, 11 months ago

U.S. could see a century’s worth of sea rise in just 30 years

LA Times  

By 2050, the sea levels along U.S. shores will be 10 to 12 inches higher, according to a NOAA report. “Make no mistake: Sea level rise is upon us,” said Nicole LeBoeuf, director of NOAA’s National Ocean Service. “Many of our major metropolitan areas on the East Coast are going to be increasingly at risk.” The western Gulf of Mexico …

More than 400 toxic sites in California are at risk of flooding from sea level rise
3 years, 1 month ago

More than 400 toxic sites in California are at risk of flooding from sea level rise

LA Times  

The Halaco Superfund site in Oxnard, which is contaminated by a decades-old metal recycling operation, is projected to flood at least seven times per year by the end of the century. This three-year project, dubbed Toxic Tides, is the first systematic look at the environmental justice ramifications of sea level rise and hazardous sites along the entire coast of California. …

Some California cities think they’re safe from sea level rise. They’re not, new data show
4 years, 4 months ago

Some California cities think they’re safe from sea level rise. They’re not, new data show

LA Times  

Marin City, Calif., with Richardson Bay in the background. At a meeting held earlier this year by a special committee of state lawmakers who had started to revive these much-needed discussions on sea level rise, Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, who serves as speaker pro tem, didn’t mince words: “I’m feeling the urgency,” he said, “and blown away, frankly, by the magnitude …

Most California cities refuse to retreat from rising seas. One town wants to show how it’s done
4 years, 10 months ago

Most California cities refuse to retreat from rising seas. One town wants to show how it’s done

LA Times  

Ten miles north of Monterey and a world away from Santa Cruz, Bruce Delgado gazed up a towering sand dune. Officials instead are embracing ideas that have been political suicide elsewhere: Require real estate disclosures for sea level rise, move infrastructure away from the water, work with the private resort in town to relocate its oceanfront property — a policy …

California must act now to prepare for sea level rise, state lawmakers say
5 years, 1 month ago

California must act now to prepare for sea level rise, state lawmakers say

LA Times  

At a packed meeting catering to state lawmakers and top planning officials, Mark Merrifield played a video that he and his research team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have seen many times before. “This is a natural phenomenon; it’s feeding the beaches, but it’s happening more and more frequently in part because of sea level rise,” said Merrifield, director …

California’s coast is disappearing, and the debate over what to do about it is in full swing
5 years, 6 months ago

California’s coast is disappearing, and the debate over what to do about it is in full swing

LA Times  

On Pacifica Esplanade Dog Beach in January, the remains of an apartment building that fell from the cliffs can be seen along with one still standing. Even as quakes, wildfires and drought have taken up most of our focus, the slow-moving disaster of rising seas has paralyzed Californians, and left us with “both too much and not enough time” to …

The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim
5 years, 6 months ago

The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim

LA Times  

Leer en español The California coast grew and prospered during a remarkable moment in history when the sea was at its tamest. “If we don’t start managing retreat now, how much is it going to cost later?” — Charles Lester, director of UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center Responding to just this most recent El Niño season has …

Destruction from sea level rise in California could exceed worst wildfires and earthquakes, new research shows
5 years, 10 months ago

Destruction from sea level rise in California could exceed worst wildfires and earthquakes, new research shows

LA Times  

In the most extensive study to date on sea level rise in California, researchers say damage by the end of the century could be far more devastating than the worst earthquakes and wildfires in state history. “This sort of science is absolutely critical to our planning,” said Jack Ainsworth, executive director of the California Coastal Commission, which has used the …

Report shows detailed projections for Washington rising seas
6 years, 5 months ago

Report shows detailed projections for Washington rising seas

Associated Press  

SEATTLE — A new report provides the most detailed projections for how fast sea levels are expected to rise along Washington state shorelines over the next decades. The projections released Monday show what to expect at 171 sites in Puget Sound and along the state’s outer coast sea levels rise due to global warming. Scientists with Washington Sea Grant and …

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