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Jane Willenbring sampling shore platform bedrock in Del Mar with a hammer and chisel. Credit: Travis Clow In parts of California's iconic mountainous coasts, breathtaking beauty is punctuated by brusque signs warning spectators to stay back from unstable cliffs. The dangers of coastal erosion are an all-too-familiar reality for the modern residents of these communities. Now, with a new tool, researchers are bringing historical…

Recent drone image (2022) showing damage to archaeological structures at the ancient harbor of Apollonia (Eastern Libya) caused by coastal erosion. Credit: Saad Buyadem, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Archaeological sites along the Libyan shoreline are at risk of being damaged or lost due to increasing coastal erosion, according to a study published April 12, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by…

Last Updated: April 06, 2023, 13:43 ISTMumbai Coastal Road Project (Photo: The Indian Express)Mumbai's Coastal Road Project on Track to Revolutionize Transportation and Transform Western WaterfrontIndia’s largest city, Mumbai, is gearing up to witness a dramatic transformation with the upcoming launch of the Mumbai Coastal Road, which is poised to be the most expensive project ever undertaken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The Coastal Road project, with a budget of Rs-12,721 crore, aims to connect north…

Composite (from 3 or 4 soil cores in each system) decadally averaged (±SE) rates of vertical accretion (𝜔) from 1900s to the 2010s at nine tidal wetland sites along the U.S. East Coast with the site-average linear acceleration in accretion (; mm yr−2) denoted by the best-fit line. Credit: Earth's Future (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022EF003037 The world's salty, tidal marshes are hotspots of carbon storage and productivity, building…

Last Updated: March 22, 2023, 11:34 ISTMumbai Coastal Road Project Deadline Pushed to May 2024 (Photo: The Indian Express)The boring work on the second tunnel was halted for a period of three months due to a part of TBM being damaged.The Mumbai Coastal Road work has resumed. However, the BMC has pushed the deadline for the completion of the project to May 2024. Earlier, the coastal road in Mumbai was supposed to be ready by November 2023. But a section of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) got damaged and the whole tunneling…

Last Updated: March 06, 2023, 10:48 ISTMumbai Coastal Road Project (Photo: Twitter)The Mumbai Coastal Road Project is the brainchild of former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan who initiated it nearly a decade back in 2012 during his tenureThe final boring work for the second underground tunnel of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP) is to be completed by the end of this month. The 10.58 km long coastal road will connect Nariman Point in South Mumbai with the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL) through a series of roads and…

Caption: Intensifying phytoplankton blooms in earth's coastal oceans. Credit: Lian Feng A team of Earth scientists affiliated with multiple institutions in China and the U.S. has found that coastal algae blooms (also known as phytoplankton blooms) have been getting bigger over the past couple of decades. In their study, published in the journal Nature, the group analyzed satellite data supplied to them by NASA to compare the…

The extinction hygroscopic growth factor of different sources aerosol under polluted and clean background in Qingdao from Sept. 2019 to Aug. 2020. Credit: Liu Nana In order to study the extinction hygroscopic growth characteristics of aerosol in coastal areas, researchers have analyzed the local aerosol characteristics of Qingdao, a typical coastal city in China. …

Aerosol filter sampling downwind of polluted coastal waters in Imperial Beach. Photo: Matthew Pendergraft. Credit: Matthew Pendergraft New research led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has confirmed that coastal water pollution transfers to the atmosphere in sea spray aerosol, which can reach people beyond just beachgoers, surfers, and swimmers. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Many communities in the United States underestimate how much sea level will rise in their area, according to a new study in Earth's Future led by Andra Garner, a climate scientist at Rowan University. Garner and colleagues compiled a database of the most recent regional climate projections in 54…