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Final Frontiers: Atlantic Seashores at Risk
Rising sea levels and stronger storms could drown popular beaches The wide, white beach slopes gently into the Atlantic surf, dotted at long intervals with the upturned shell of an expired horseshoe crab. Terns wheel on their slender wings and shriek over the breakers. On the other side of the shrub-covered dunes, deer graze on [...]
Arctic Ice Melting Steered Superstorm Sandy toward Coast
Climate change could make destructive hurricanes more common In an article published in the March issue of the journal Oceanography, scientists from Cornell University and Rutgers University say that dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic last summer, prompted by atmospheric warming, created the ideal conditions for Superstorm Sandy’s unprecedented path over the U.S. coast. [...]
“Hurricane Sandy: Before and After” Reveals Storm’s Damage to Coastal Areas
New York City beaches, salt marshes are slowly recovering While much of Gateway National Recreation Area remains closed to the public after Hurricane Sandy’s assault last year, visitors can view the extent of nature’s wrath at a new exhibit of large-scale photographs. “Hurricane Sandy: Before and After” will be on display at the Jamaica Bay [...]
In Search of Sea Ice
Researchers reconstruct the Arctic before climate change You may have heard that this year’s Arctic sea ice coverage will be the smallest on record, an indicator of advancing climate change. But scientists have only been tracking Arctic sea ice via satellite since 1979, a span of time that’s too brief to show patterns of global [...]
Happy ‘blue trails’ to you
Happy ‘blue trails’ to you – Long Beach – LIHerald.com – Nassau County’s source for local news, breaking news, sports, entertainment & shopping.
Vampire Squid Not As Bloodthirsty as Once Thought
Researchers discover deep-sea cephalopods’ diet With its saucerlike blue eyes, dark red hue and web of tissue connecting its tentacles—not unlike Dracula’s cloak—the vampire squid would make a great Halloween costume. But it doesn’t vant to suck your blood, according to researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Scientists have puzzled over the [...]
Grants for Marinas to Help Keep Our Water’s Clean
BoatUS Foundation Wants More Butts Out of the Water Looks for More Marinas for 2011 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 16, 2012 – Boaters are keeping their butts out of the water – and we’re not talking about the kind in swim trunks. In just the past three years the BoatUS Foundation has [...]
RIGHT WHALES HAVE RIGHT OF WAY IN NEW YORK HARBOR
Critically endangered Right Whales may be encountered in offshore and coastal waters of New York Harbor. Right whales are slow moving and at risk of serious injury or death due to collisions with vessels. U.S. law (50 CFR 224.105) prohibits operating vessels 65 feet (19.8 M) or greater in excess of 10 knots in specific [...]
Support ! Keep America’s Waterfront Working Act
A bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to establish a grant program to to acquire working piers and other points of waterfront access and provide funding for waterfront planning. The program is designed to allow states and local communities to support and protect places along the coast where commercial fishermen, boat [...]
WPA’S A MARITIME HISTORY OF NEW YORK
THE YEARS 1935 through 1943 were very productive in the fields of research and publication on America’s maritime heritage. During this period the Federal Writers Program, a New Deal depression relief effort intended to aid out-of-work writers, produced over fifty guidebooks to the then forty-eight states, three territories, and several major cities. Teams of researchers [...]
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