Underground Walls That Save Island Water Can Backfire as Climate Stress Shifts
New simulations based on San Salvador Island in The Bahamas show that subsurface cutoff walls protect island freshwater lenses against ...
Tag: coastal erosion
Five Years After Sandy, Barrier Islands Still Haven’t Recovered Their Lost Sand
A five-year sediment budget of Fire Island after Hurricane Sandy reveals that barrier island geometry, not overwash alone, controls how ...
Drones and a Dwarf Juniper Reveal How Japan’s Coastal Dunes Are Quietly Vanishing
A new study combines 111 years of land-cover records with drone-based LiDAR to show that Japan's Kumihama Dune has lost ...
Radioactive Sand Maps Reveal How an Indian Beach Quietly Rebuilds Itself
Scientists mapped natural radioactivity across Jampore beach in Daman, India, and found that radium isotope ratios and grain-size patterns reveal ...
Atlantic Niño, Not El Niño, Drives West Africa’s Extreme Coastal Floods
A new study reconstructing extreme coastal water levels from Mauritania to Cameroon finds that tides, wave run-up, and the Atlantic ...
Ireland Maps Its Most Dangerous Coastlines in First Nationwide Exposure Study
The first nationwide Coastal Exposure Index reveals that 38 percent of Ireland's coastline benefits from protective habitats, while eastern counties ...
Bayesian Network Forecasts Where Rising Seas Will Strike Taiwan’s Coast Hardest
Researchers in Taiwan built a Bayesian network from two decades of coastal data to forecast erosion risk under a 2 ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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