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Scientists worry that the Chesapeakes natural shoreline is turning into a wall
2015-12-26 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: On the banks of the Potomac River, construction cranes that look like metal dinosaurs tower over Southwest Washington. They swivel in all directions, delivering concrete and other heavy material to workers building a large development behind a steel-and-concrete wall that holds back the water. Within two years, the Wharf will begin emerging as a playground of trendy apartments, shops and entertainment venues. But below the rivers surface, animals that depend on vegetation in the water may continue...
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Micieli's Lake View: Chef takes over seasonal event facility on Oneida shoreline
2015-10-20 18:45:09| Jewelry - Topix.net
Local chef and caterer Jeff Mitchell has taken over a seasonal wedding/banquet/restaurant facility at Lewis Point on Oneida Lake, and plans to open it for the 2016 summer-to-fall season. Jeff Mitchell, of Micieli's Comfort Dining in Canastota.
Coastal construction: how Britain's shoreline was built on
2015-10-20 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Settlements equivalent to a city the size of Manchester have been constructed along Britains coast over five decades, but conservationists have saved almost all seaside landscapes identified as pristine 50 years ago, a survey has found. A mapping project undertaken in 1965 defined 3,342 miles of the coast of England, Wales and Northern Ireland as pristine and worthy of protection, inspiring the National Trusts Neptune campaign, a 50-year effort to save shorelines from development and destruction....
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Coastal Alaska natives face some of highest shoreline erosion in the world'
2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: They already knew climate change was changing their lives for the worse. The ice the Iupiat people used for centuries to hunt bowhead whales on a fragile barrier island on the Chukchi Sea had thinned so much that hunting was too risky. Ice melted by high temperatures from climate change made flooding part of their way of life. State and federal officials have seriously considered moving their entire village inland. But no one had a full assessment of the threat. Now the U.S. Geological Survey...
New York Great Lakes Shoreline Could Become Part of World's Longest Trail
2015-05-25 18:58:58| Chemicals - Topix.net
A hiking enthusiast is proposing to create a Great Lakes Trail, a single path around the shorelines of all five Great Lakes. If completed, it would be the longest marked trail in the world.