12/26/838First documented storm surge in the North Sea; Approximately 2,500 deaths in what is now the Netherlands. 2/17/1164First Julian flood: 20,000 dead; First collapse of the Jade Bay, major damage in the Elbe area. 1/16/1219First Marcellus flood: 36,000 dead:...
The only constant is change, that's the creed of the Barrier Islands of North Carolina according to marine scientist Orin Pilkey. In his introduction to this PBS documentary from the 1980s, Pilkey provocatively comments the image of beach houses slowly being swallowed...
When I read about this assembly of plastic garbage, I was inevitably reminded of stories out of the saga "Erik the Red" or the Irish Legend of Saint Brendan. In other words, it has everything for being a modern myth, a contemporary fairy tale: A gigantic new island...
Last year author Ram V and artist Christian Ward published a new three piece comic book on the DC-superhero Aquaman. (I have commented on the Aquaman movie from the same year here and here.) The story is not really about Atlantis, acording to the DC universe the...
In the introduction to his book "Worlds in Shadow" from 2022 Australian Geographer Patrick Nunn writes: "The stories from Haida Gwaii and Aboriginal Australia neatly illustrate the three main sources of information from which we can today discover details about...
https://youtu.be/ohE6ZFPr2W8 Climate adaptation for coastal cities will require altered relationships to the sea and the marine ecosystem. future coastal city communities will live closer to and closer with the sea and it's inhabitants. This will most likely require...