All posts tagged "Landforms"

An ongoing border dispute between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which started over the construction of a canal on Haitian soil, grew more tense this week as each side accused the other of unlawfully entering its territory. The latest border clash between the two acrimonious neighbors, which share the island of Hispaniola, unfolded in the vicinity of what’s known as Pyramid 13 on the border area that divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti near the Haitian city of Ounanaminthe. It is also where the Dominican Republic is building a wall inside its territory to keep undocumented Haitians out......

The National Hurricane Center began tracking two systems in the Atlantic with a chance to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm. In the NHC’s 8 p.m. tropical outlook Sunday, it forecast two systems with a chance for development, one in the eastern tropical Atlantic and one in the central tropical Atlantic. The eastern tropical Atlantic system is expected to grow between the Cape Verde Islands and the west coast of Africa. “Some slow development of this system is possible later this week as it moves slowly west-northwestward or northwestward across the eastern Atlantic,” fore......

The company that wants to send part of a controversial 1,300-mile carbon dioxide pipeline through the Midwest is seeking a fast-tracked permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that would not require public notification or input. The expedited permit process, which is supposed to take about 60 days, can help businesses and regulators by reducing delays and paperwork. But environmentalists — who discovered Omaha-based Navigator CO2′s pipeline permit application via a public records request — say that fast-tracking is intended for activities with minimal effects on waterways and wetlands, no......

Ecologist Shane Godshall tromps in waders through two feet of mud in Thompsons Beach marsh on the Delaware Bay in Heislerville, in New Jersey's Cumberland County. He pauses, then sticks his hand in the ooze and pulls out a piece of the secret weapon scientists have been deploying to fight erosion from climate change and to save America’s coastline: the coconut. More accurately, it’s the fibrous outer husk of the coconut shell called coir (pronounced koy-uh, but often referred to as core). Typically, coir is packed into 10-foot logs tied together by biodegradable twine. Many of the $80 to $169 ......

Matt Kaminski stood on a road scarcely higher than the floodplain, glassy pools on all sides stretched out like something from a dream. In the distance, a storm lumbered over the Coast Ranges. The marsh all around him, Kaminski said, was a window into the Central Valley’s past. Back then, the waterways that twist down from the Sierra Nevada mountains would flood unrestricted by the current thicket of dams, canals and levees. The more you know about rivers, the less confidence you have in a mapmaker’s static squiggle. Kaminski, a biologist from Ducks Unlimited who helps oversee the floodplain a......

SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. — Darkness has not yet yielded to the rising sun, but there’s already a flurry of activity on the tip of Sanibel Island. More than a hundred island locals and public officials have gathered around the community’s beacon of light to mark five months after Hurricane Ian’s brutal arrival in this peaceful tropical paradise. In late September 2022, the Category 4 storm ravaged the coast of Southwest Florida, destroying homes, leveling businesses and damaging ecosystems. For many who remember the hurricane’s impact and the trauma it caused, it’s an occasion worth getting out of ......