by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 7, 2015 | Winter 2015
Traditional fisheries, improvised communities bear brunt of the impacts It’s a familiar beach scene: a child digs her feet into the wet sand at the water’s edge, bracing herself to create a barrier between her sandcastle and the breaking waves. Adults look on from...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 24, 2015 | Winter 2015
Alyce Kleczek can rattle off stark statistics about sea level rise in Rhode Island. She can help you read a flood map and talk Washington, D.C., politics. Kleczek is not a scientist. Nor is she a politician, a bureaucrat, or a well-connected lobbyist. She’s a veteran...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 24, 2015 | Winter 2015
DEVASTATION FROM SUPERSTORM SANDY IN 2012 is still visible along the New Jersey shore, where thousands of houses were swept away or damaged, and it will be years before the destruction is no longer visible. The Port of New York and New Jersey was effectively shut down...
