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3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation

GreenBiz

More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise. In some places, entire villages and more than a mile of coastline have been lost to the sea. Coastal wetlands can defend communities from storm surge and sea level rise.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise. Armenta, who was working for a local environmental justice organization at the time, was deeply concerned, but not surprised, by the news.

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How oysters and seagrass could help the California coast adapt to rising seas

Grist

Coastal armoring refers to the construction of hard structures like seawalls along coasts, and nearly 14 percent of American coastline is already armored. Nichols says the goal of living shorelines is to create organic structures to protect coasts, “instead of using boulders and rocks.”. Alexandria Herr / Grist.

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8 cities share how racial justice is embedded into their climate plans

GreenBiz

Last week, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group , an organization of mayors from around the global, launched a Detailed Agenda for Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19 to ensure that this crisis propels sustainable innovations instead of a return to old ways. . Below are excerpts from the interviews, edited for length and clarity.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

Paul's Rondo neighborhood — a once-thriving African American hub before it was cut in half by the construction of Interstate 94 in the late '50s. As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action. You've got to have ownership.

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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

DeSmogBlog

Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans. We’re going to have another catastrophe.”

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Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A Massive Mississippi River Diversion Plan?

DeSmogBlog

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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