coastalerosion
For most people, buying a home is the biggest investment of their life. So it makes sense to take every risk into account. Increasingly, climate change is taking its toll on the property market, damaging and devaluing homes, and driving up insurance costs. US real estate site Realtor.com announced last week that it is expanding the climate risks on its property listings from fire and flooding, to current and projected future levels of heat, wind and air quality. Over 40 per cent of US homes are at severe or extreme risk when it comes to these factors, the realtor said in a press release. Some ...
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A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 (€551,000) in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure. The project, which brought 12,701 metric tonnes of sand into Salisbury over several weeks, was completed just three days before Sunday's storm clobbered southern New England in the US with strong winds, heavy rainfall and coastal flooding. The Salisbury Beach Citizens for Change group, which facilitated the project and helped raise funds, posted on social media about the project's completion last week and then again af...
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Back-to-back storms lashed the US Northeast in January, leaving coastal homes in tatters. Rental properties in Hampton, New Hampshire, owned by Haim Levy were hammered by nearly 60 cm of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and causing him to evacuate tenants to safer ground. “I put them in hotels and everything. So it was brutal, for everybody. And at the apartment I have no floors; I have nothing,” says Levy. “It's not fun.” Many scientists who study the intersection of climate change, flooding, winter storms and sea level rise agree the kind of damage Levy experien...
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California's collapsing marshlands have found an unlikely saviour in hungry sea otters. The return of otters and their voracious appetites could halt one of the biggest causes of erosion, a new study shows. Sea otters eat constantly and one of their favourite snacks is the striped shore crab. These crabs dig burrows and also nibble away roots of the marsh grass pickleweed that holds dirt in place. Left unchecked, the crabs turn the marsh banks “into Swiss cheese”, which can collapse when big waves or storms hit, explains Brent Hughes, a Sonoma State University marine ecologist and co-author of...
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