For John B. Anderson, the Gulf Coast is personal. The W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice University ...

"My grandson, he stepped off the boardwalk and he went knee deep." Communities across US struggle with new threats emerging ...

The Barrow Coastal Erosion Project calls for over 100,000 tons of armor rock to be placed along 5 miles of the North Slope ...

In the dead of night on a beach in Suriname's capital Paramaribo, a group of just-hatched baby sea turtles clamber out of ...

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

A conservation team unloads biodegradable wave breaks from a boat on May 27, 2025. The cement jute wave breaks designed for ...

Parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than most of the rest of the world. That's forcing tough choices for residents of some Alaska Native villages.

And, you know, permafrost is a natural way to protect against coastal erosion. Permafrost is absolutely the glue that's holding all the sediment along the coast in place.

For the study, the researchers examined satellite data and computer models to ascertain the long-term impacts in Alaska’s Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP), specifically regarding how the sea-level rise ...

The overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence, and erosion may lead to land loss in Arctic coastal regions that dwarfs the loss of land from any single one of these climate ...