I have been studying coastal geology and wetlands for more than 40 years. The rates of sea-level rise that we’re seeing now mean portions of today’s coastal wetland ecosystems will be lost to the ...

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New book California Catastrophes challenges coastal communities to confront reality It’s no secret that Californians live with the ... —like highway closures from landslides and even the changing ...

Marine and coastal geoscience play a critical role in understanding ancient and modern geological history, offshore and coastal hazards, and climate change. Deep-water environments prevent ...

Orrin H. Pilkey, a coastal geologist whose blunt and often successful arguments against sea walls and other armor on the saltwater beaches of the United States won him reverence from ...

Wetland revival project aims to fight flooding, sea level rise 03:29. In recent years, storms have battered the California coast, flooding vulnerable communities, as the threat of sea level rise ...

New evidence suggests current estimates about tsunami size and how quickly waves make it to shore may be too high and too ...

The researchers were able to see that the coastal land has dropped by that amount during previous Cascadia earthquakes, based on the coast geology and evidence in the sediment in coastal marshes.

Isolated in the vast Firth of Clyde, Arran is situated just south of the Hebrides and is Scotland's seventh biggest island.