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The City of Marco Island recently applied for a grant for a project called Tigertail Lagoon/Sand Dollar Island Ecosystem Restoration for consideration under the Florida DEP Protecting Florida Together Program. According to the City’s application, the project is supposed to address “vulnerability to storm damages and establish a sustainable natural based resilient barrier system to preserve… Read More
Louisianans have faced enough natural disasters not to wish the experience on anyone else, not even the insensitive souls elsewhere who, each time a big storm roars ashore, wonder aloud why people live here. So there was no joy in watching the remnants of Hurricane Ida deal a deadly blow to the Northeast so soon… Read More
“I hope it helps with identifying not just the most vulnerable wetlands today but the most vulnerable wetlands tomorrow.” Tidal wetlands are vitally important ecosystems that provide food, host fishery stocks, store carbon and protect coasts from storm surges. They are also extremely vulnerable to sea level rise. In fact, a study published in Earth’s Future recently found… Read More
She brings more than 20 years of experience in Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act issues. Today, NOAA Fisheries announced Ms. Kim Damon-Randall as the director of the Office of Protected Resources. She will assume her new duties on August 29. Ms. Damon-Randall began her career with NOAA in 2001, serving in a… Read More
Major ports around the U.S. are struggling with queues of anchored ships and yards of containers piled as high as local fire departments will allow. Now some of the smaller, regional trade gateways are relishing the opportunity to expand amid all that congestion. Take the Port of Boston, where the cranes of the Conley Terminal… Read More
The current GHG emissions profile of the inland waterway sector is low compared to other freight modes. The American Waterways Operators cites statistics that show that one dry cargo barge can carry the same amount of cargo as 16 rail cars or 70 trucks and that barge transportation produces 30% less greenhouse gas emissions than… Read More
The energy company Uniper has signed an MOU with the Port of Rotterdam Authority for developing the production of green hydrogen at Uniper’s current location at Maasvlakte. The project builds on the findings of a feasibility study announced in February, and it aligns with regional infrastructure planning to meet the demands of Rotterdam’s booming petrochemical… Read More
A long-sought revitalization of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility in Ketchikan is officially underway. The project aims to give the NOAA ship Fairweather a permanent home. Local, state and federal officials plunged gold-painted shovels into two long, narrow wooden boxes filled with dirt Tuesday morning. The ceremonial groundbreaking marks the beginning of work… Read More
If even half of the funding and policy changes in the pursuit of resiliency, flood mitigation and land conservation make it through the budget process, it would be far and away the biggest effort in the state’s history to meet the challenge of a changing climate. This year, there is broad consensus across party lines… Read More
NEW DELHI – In the vast Sunderbans delta that spans eastern India and Bangladesh, coastal erosion due to rising sea levels has been slowly carving away chunks of its low-lying islands, forcing thousands of people to relocate, according to climate experts. “When we talk to families in the Sunderbans, we find that only elderly people… Read More