Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
from a dedicated $25 million purse taken from realty transfer fees. Noreen Bodman, president of the business-oriented Jersey Sho ...
differ from any other topographic feature on earth because of “their ability to maintain themselves as a unit as they roll acros ...
Lippincott bought a house with 1.2 acres in coastal Avalon for $500, raising the money by selling a single rare stamp. In 2000, ...
be eligible for federal funding, the towns are nominally required to provide open beach access every quarter mile, but endless r ...
mer home to many wealthy Sephardic Jews, huge estates have names like “Chez Fleur” and “Belle Mer.” The Deal Casino Beach Club o ...
York/New Jersey Baykeeper. “There has to be access to the mean high tide line, and as intervenors in these cases we’re asking fo ...
erate dramatically, making a hash of calculations based on the historic precedent. The Metro East Coast report, for instance, sa ...
the business community, which sees both as vital to its busy tourist sea- son. Real estate lobbyist Ken Smith calls Bennett “a l ...
in the U.S. Some of the beaches have had seawalls at their back for a long time, more than 100 years, and the effect has been to ...
homes and buildings too close to the shoreline. But even $1 billion is not too high a price when $20 billion—a century’s worth o ...
“This is the last undeveloped stretch of shoreline in New Jersey,” says Brian Unger. “I don’t think it needs conference centers, ...
New York has nearly 600 miles of coastline. Four of its five bor- oughs are located on islands, linked by vulnerable bridges, tu ...
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Antigua is beautiful. Antigua is too beautiful. Sometimes the beauty of it seems unreal. Sometimes the beauty of it seems as if ...
Fifteen years after those words were written, I am standing on the shoreline at Runaway Bay. It is mid-January, the height of th ...
Forum in Japan, storms and hurricanes have risen from an average of 3.5 events per year between 1920 and 1940, to 5.5 events per ...
The ambassador is silent for a moment, then continues: “There is some evidence that, when the ocean currents begin to warm up as ...
ing me: Antigua’s three distinct geological areas, as the landscape shifts from volcanic to clay to limestone. As he drives, Pro ...
hills. The roadside is ringed by pipe organ cactus, agave, and a ubiqui- tous thorny shrub known here as “cassie.” It has sprung ...
These are the subtle shifts, the things only a permanent resident would see and feel. At the same time, these alterations in nat ...
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