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Semantics, really...
OK, this is too cute not to share. Let's take care of that water quality!
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DOLPHIN MOM AND BABY! This adorable newborn calf and its mom swimming and chasing fish in the water off St. Petersburg is adorable! 🐬 #WeLiveHere STORY: bit.ly/2XdCwcN
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Winds create unusually large formations on Outer Banks beach | Raleigh News & Observer
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An act of nature at Cape Lookout National Seashore is being credited with transforming beaches at North Core Banks into a craggy moonscape, including “cool looking and unusually large sand pedestals...The conflict between oceanfront property rights and public beach use continues:
www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20190413/simmering-hostilities-greet-tourists-in-south-walton?fbclid=Iw...
Simmering hostilities greet tourists in South Walton
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It is telling that the two sides in Walton County’s bitter battle over its beaches don’t even agree about what it was last year that blewPSDS has joined with the American Water Security Project to help examine water quality issues in FL:
American Water Security Project
American Water Security Project
The American Water Security Project strives to be the leader in promoting, through education and advocacy, the need for sewage and wastewater infrastructure upgrades and repairs, ethical treatment and...Pretty funny read:
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www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/wall-street-is-masking-the-true-cost-of-climate-change...
Wall Street Is Masking the True Cost of Climate Change for Coastal Homes
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More and more houses are vulnerable, but that may not be fully reflected in insurance costs.www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/flood-insurance-reform-wont-be-pleasant-but-its-necessary/2019/03...
Opinion | Flood insurance reform won’t be pleasant. But it’s necessary.
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The Trump administration laudably is contemplating coming to the rescue of an agency drowning in debt.Interesting article on how building levees can impact your neighbors. Works a bit like seawalls.
www.revealnews.org/article/flood-thy-neighbor-who-stays-dry-and-who-decides/?fbclid=IwAR3YecINPN3...
Flood thy neighbor: Who stays dry and who decides?
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One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what’s wrong with America’s approach to controlling rivers.Whether or not you realize it, surfers are masters of complicated physics. The science of surfing begins as soon as a board first hits the water.
Check out this great TEDEd video about the physics of surfing:
www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/africa/cyclone-idai-1-week-later-intl/index.html
Harrowing scenes after Cyclone Idai with inland ocean visible from outer space
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As many as "300 to 400" bodies line the banks of a road out of the city of Beira, in Mozambique, according to an eye witness account, suggesting that the human toll of Cyclone Idai is likely to far ex...This is why it is so difficult to regulate the oceanfront.
www.thecoastlandtimes.com/2019/03/20/couple-sues-for-right-to-rebuild-nags-head-beachfront-home/
Couple sues for right to rebuild Nags Head beachfront home | The Coastland Times
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Represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, Michael and Cathy Zito have filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, arguing that the government's decisi...Inside Climate News story about local governments planning above and beyond FEMA's new draft flood maps, with comments from our Katie Peek.
This article is largely based the maps and work PSDS has been doing in Mexico Beach as they recover from Hurricane Michael.
Not Trusting FEMA’s Flood Maps, More Hurricane-Hit Cities Set Their Own Rules
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A growing number of cities are looking beyond the usual 100-year floodplain and requiring more homes to be built higher for their own protection.We will see what happens when the insurance bills actually come due. Don't hold your breath.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/climate-advocates-cheer-trump-policy-shift-on-flood-in...
Climate Advocates Cheer Trump Policy Shift on Flood Insurance
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Climate advocates say an overhaul of the nation’s flood insurance program being unveiled by the Trump administration will spur communities around the country to better plan for extreme weather, but ...We like to give talks to local civic groups like Ruritan or Kiwanis in rural parts of North Carolina. We think it is important for people who do not typically interact with climate scientists to meet folks like me. For 10 years, I have been telling them that we will not be farming east of the Suffolk Scarp in North Carolina in the second half of this century. The area was wetland in the 17th Century. Settlers drained these coastal "Pocosins" and farmed the rich, organic soils. But, SLR has caught back up and these farm fields do not drain the same way any longer. These are the stories that we need to be telling when it comes to talking about the impacts of SLR on people who are often not engaged with our message. The Post has done a nice job here.
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Ruined crops, salty soil: How rising seas are poisoning North Carolina’s farmland
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Once-rich coastal land is turning barren — a trend expected to worsen as the world continues to warm.