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      As sea levels rise, the East Coast is also sinking

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 27 April, 2023 - 13:51

    Chesapeake Bay is subsiding up to 5 millimeters a year, greatly exacerbating sea-level rise. It's a growing problem up and down the Atlantic coast.

    Enlarge / Chesapeake Bay is subsiding up to 5 millimeters a year, greatly exacerbating sea-level rise. It's a growing problem up and down the Atlantic coast. (credit: Marli Miller/Getty Images)

    Climate scientists already know that the East Coast of the United States could see around a foot of sea-level rise by 2050, which will be catastrophic on its own. But they are just beginning to thoroughly measure a “hidden vulnerability” that will make matters far worse: The coastline is also sinking . It’s a phenomenon known as subsidence, and it’s poised to make the rising ocean all the more dangerous, both for people and coastal ecosystems.

    New research published in the journal Nature Communications finds that the Atlantic coast—home to more than a third of the US population—is dropping by several millimeters per year. In Charleston, South Carolina, and the Chesapeake Bay, it’s up to 5 millimeters (a fifth of an inch). In some areas of Delaware, it’s as much as twice that.

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      As long as the People are not leading the change for an ecological paradigm-shift, the nightmare of flooding will prevail

      David Sauvage · Tuesday, 19 April, 2022 - 07:19 edit

    Why don't capitalists give Nature a break ? After a hotel project in the Blue Bay Ramsar site, an hotel in a dune system at La Cambuse, a planned hotel in a wetland at Les Salines Black-River, proposed villas in Pointe d’Esny and Belle Ombre wetland systems, and the Pomponette coastline to name a few, we need to end these ecocides.

    The Ecological Crisis is such a tremendous challenge to address that all the People of the Republic of Mauritius should be deeply part of it. We believe that Rezistans ek Alternativ has paved the way forward as we succeeded to federate an unprecedented horizontal mobilisation to face the Wakashio oil spill, and such an eco-socialist open-approach is a must-have to face the Ecological Crisis.

    The worst is that big corporations and oligarchs have access to such information, as it is the case for the ESA 2009 Study, for them to craft their EIA applications, or the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to be able to carefully select the lands they speculate on, leaving the flood-prone lands to the working-class. Climate injustice also starts here.

    #mauritius #esabillnow #ramsar #wetlands #climate

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      System Change, Not Climate Change !

      David Sauvage · Saturday, 21 April, 2018 - 05:19 edit

    TOP FM Mauritius

    Hardtalk : les défis écologiques - 2018/04/18 "Pour en débattre, Habib Mosaheb accueille Vassen Kaupaymoothoo, ingénieur de l’environnement, et David Sauvage de Rezistans ek Alternativ"

    #esabillnow #wetlands #systemchange