Tag: Erosion
How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves...
Richard Aster, Colorado State University
As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below...
More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil...
Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high...
Dreaming of beachfront real estate? Much of Florida’s coast is at...
Zhong-Ren Peng, University of Florida
Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several...
It’s time to rethink the disrupted US food system from the...
David R. Montgomery, University of Washington; Jennifer J. Otten, University of Washington, and Sarah M. Collier, University of Washington
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic...
Where does beach sand come from?
David R. Montgomery, University of Washington
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
Why are Atlantic and Gulf coast property owners building back bigger...
Eli Lazarus, University of Southampton and Evan B. Goldstein, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
U.S. coastal counties are densely populated and extensively developed. They...
Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse
Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University
Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
