Residents on every U.S. coast are looking for solutions for rising sea levels
3 months 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 Berkeley professor Kristina Hill calls the seawall a joke because not only is it barely tall enough to keep water at bay now before major sea rise, it's also poorly built. ROMERO: Hill says if no action is taken, the rising ocean could eventually overwhelm the existing seawall and flood the city's tourist center in downtown.

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Researchers release animated models of rising sea levels drowning coastal cities
1 year, 3 months ago

Researchers release animated models of rising sea levels drowning coastal cities

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Climate scientists with Climate Central have curated a collection of animated models showing us what 196 cities will look …

Nearly 200,000 homes set to be lost to rising sea levels in next 30 years
2 years, 9 months ago

Nearly 200,000 homes set to be lost to rising sea levels in next 30 years

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The research examines how rising sea levels caused by climate change, combined with erosion of foreshores by waves, are …

Rising sea levels pose perilous threat to California coast as study raises new alarms
3 years, 1 month 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 …

Some California cities think they’re safe from sea level rise. They’re not, new data show
4 years, 6 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
5 years 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 …

A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas
5 years, 1 month ago

A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas

New York Times  

What do you do when the sea comes for your home, your school, your church? A large part of Metropolitan Manila is facing more water-related impacts because of decades of myopic, cross-eyed land use planning.” More than 30 years ago, before Ms. Alay-ay was born, her parents, migrants from the countryside, built a small house in Malabon, the only neighborhood …

Rising seas already overwhelm the Bay Area. Time is running out for California to act
5 years, 1 month ago

Rising seas already overwhelm the Bay Area. Time is running out for California to act

LA Times  

When Jeff Moneda first started working for Foster City, where trails wind along the town’s scenic lagoons and the nicest homes perch along its picturesque canals, he received an email from federal emergency officials that jolted him into action. The fate of Foster City and the rest of the Bay Area was front and center last week as state lawmakers …

California’s coast is disappearing, and the debate over what to do about it is in full swing
5 years, 8 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 …

Newsletter: Essential California: How to react when the sea is rising
5 years, 8 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 …

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

Want to Fight Sea Level Rise? Look to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach
55 years, 2 months ago

Want to Fight Sea Level Rise? Look to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach

Wired  

Most mornings when I step out of my San Francisco apartment, I hear the waves, the seagulls, and occasionally kids yelling out the window across the street. Matt Simon for Wired That sandy exodus is part of San Francisco’s campaign to fight severe erosion at the southern end of the beach that faces the Pacific Ocean. “It's the one area …

How cities are defending themselves against sea level rise
7 years, 4 months ago

How cities are defending themselves against sea level rise

Associated Press  

HOBOKEN, N.J. — Superstorm Sandy and a series of lesser coastal storms since that 2012 disaster compelled some coastal communities to defend themselves by elevating homes and critical infrastructure, building sand dunes, widening beaches and erecting or raising sea walls. But as sea levels continue to rise around the world, that’s not an option in large cities, where skyscrapers can’t …

Higher seas to flood dozens of US cities, study says
7 years, 8 months ago

Higher seas to flood dozens of US cities, study says

CNN  

Story highlights A new study lists the cities that are expected to be affected by higher sea levels Almost 200 places may not be livable in the next 15 or 20 years, it says CNN — For the past several years, scientists have been trying to get people to wake up to the dangers that lie ahead in rising seas …

Rising sea levels could mean twice as much flood risk in Los Angeles and other coastal cities
7 years, 9 months ago

Rising sea levels could mean twice as much flood risk in Los Angeles and other coastal cities

LA Times  

The effects of rising oceans on coastal flooding may be even worse than we thought. “Most of these tide gauges are within harbors or in protected areas, so they don’t record any water level associated with waves,” said Sean Vitousek, a coastal scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “You’ll still see impacts at higher latitudes — the California …

13.1 million U.S. coastal residents could face flooding from rising sea levels, study says
9 years ago

13.1 million U.S. coastal residents could face flooding from rising sea levels, study says

LA Times  

As many as 13.1 million people living along U.S. coastlines could face flooding by the end of the century because of rising sea levels, according to a new study that warns that large numbers of Americans could be forced to relocate to higher ground. “Such spatial mismatch is likely to overestimate the future populations at risk of sea-level rise, as …

Sea Level Rise Is Predictable. It Will Be Anything From Bad to Awful
9 years ago

Sea Level Rise Is Predictable. It Will Be Anything From Bad to Awful

Wired  

San Francisco is a city surrounded on three sides by water. High tides already spill onto the sidewalks, and future sea level rise threatens roads, homes, and infrastructure. Last week the city released an action plan to protect its coastal assets and population against sea level rise. A new study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change warns that …

Washington underwater? Why rising sea levels could cause devastating flooding in the near future
10 years, 5 months ago

Washington underwater? Why rising sea levels could cause devastating flooding in the near future

Salon  

Sea level rise means a sharp increase in the flooding of coastal American cities, according to a report released late Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists. By 2045, the trend will affect even more cities including Washington D.C. and Atlantic City, N.J., with half the cities studied expected to face more than 100 floods a year and nine towns …

The rising and sinking threats to our cities
11 years, 9 months ago

The rising and sinking threats to our cities

BBC  

The rising and sinking threats to our cities Getty Images Over 3 billion people live in coastal city areas that are at risk of rising sea levels and other consequences of global warming. Sea-level rise due to climate change has already raised the risk of extreme floods in major coastal cities around the world, and many are slowly sinking into …

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