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They're pushing state to close structure and scrap plans for future diversions. 
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Right after the levees broke in New Orleans during Katrina, the people responsible for building them - the Army Corps of Engineers - blamed just about everyo...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The Corps just can't seem to get coastal management right.
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A new interactive map, “Mapping America’s Coral Reefs,” gives casual observers an engaging overview of the nearly 3 million acres of sea floor habitat mapping data produced by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and its partners.
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We are seeing more and more stories about the value of MPAs from the local community perspective.
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Integrating coastal aquaculture with wet rice farming could boost Bangladesh's food security and combat climate change
PIRatE Lab's insight:
These types of approaches ('hybrids' compared to the traditional, single focus approaches) are more and more needed.
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An interesting idea to stabilize coastal loss rates.
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The Navy will restore nine acres of dune habitat along Silver Strand Highway.
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Time will tell if this is enough to reverse this decades-long trend in declinging abundance.
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In dozens of towns along the country's northeastern Pacific coast, from tiny Ryoishi in the north to Fukushima farther south, where some areas remain off-limits due to radiation fears, the tsunami zone remains a wasteland.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The challenge with any major endeavor, but particulalry disaster recovery, is to maintain the momentum and show continued, steady progress. The devestation from the Tsunami two years ago was so complete and so widepread that the "simple" act of removing debris is on track to take perhaps a decade or more.
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The sand berms protect parking lots and other facilities from storm-wave damage.
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By all mena
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New report finds rockfish and other oceans species off the Central California coast growing in size and number in marine protected areas set up by state officials five years ago.
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Efforts to deal with plastic pollution have been gaining momentum over the last decade. This EPA Region 9 study published last fall quantified the cost incurred by 90 cities along the West Coast to clean up litter and prevent trash from entering the ocean or waterways leading to the ocean. Cities spend an annual average of $13 per resident to control litter and reduce marine debris or a total of $520,000 for the cities studied. It is not surprising, therefore, that prior to last Friday's deadline for introducing legislation in the California Legislature, four bills designed to reduce marine debris and plastic pollution were introduced
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About 610 acres in Plaquemines Parish that helps protect communities from floodwater and wind soon will receive some help in removing non-native invasive vegetation that exploded in the area after Hurricane Katrina.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Our most recent $ for invasive control/wetland restoration.
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Tons of Californians arrested at White House climate change protest
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The XL issue remains a smoldering, contentious issue that folks see as something of a line in the sand (not that we haven't had these before).
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The Army Corps of Engineers is hosting a public meeting Tuesday evening to explain the comprehensive environmental document developed for the improvements made to the New Orleans area hurricane levee system.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
If you are in town, this should be good. I am sure the Corps will have a multitide of reasons (yet again) for the levee failure and the consqeuntial impacts...except for the honest one.
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SAN FRANCISCO — For decades, surfers, smelt fishermen and picnickers flocked to Martin's Beach — a crescent-shaped haven south of Half Moon Bay, backed by stunning cliffs.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This decades old battle (and identical arguments on both sides) seems to never be far from our front pages. This was why we created the Coastal Act.
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PIRatE Lab's insight:
We used a decade of underwater monitoring data to evaluate the effectiveness of no-take and partial-take Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) located in the US Virgin Islands in the context of differing levels of enforcement and compliance. Results will provide managers with a status report that can guide management actions and communicate to a wide audience how the MPAs are performing.
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New Orleans residents continue to face a three-fold increased risk of heart attack post-Katrina -- a trend that has remained unchanged since the storm hit in 2005, according to new research.
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A genetic analysis by biologists suggests that the stocking of Florida bass in Texas reservoirs impacts bass populations far beyond the actual stocking location.
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Two-thirds of California voters believe global warming is a threat and measures need to be taken to stop it, but the level of concern has dropped significantly over the past six years, according to a Field Poll released Monday.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We see more and more evidence of California setting the trend in (mainstream) approaches to dealing with climate change in a public policy context.
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The most accurate assessment to date of the impact of commercial fishing on sharks suggests around 100 million a year are being killed.
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Federal wildlife officials Friday ordered substantial cuts in water diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect a rare fish.
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Texas-Brine, the company that owns
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Generally excavating stuff from the ground lowers the soil surface. Just an observation.
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News: Kelp, cobble will remain on San Clemente's beaches | city, kelp, beach, sand, council, clemente, san, heider, don, possible
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San Clemente City Council recently adopted new rules for caring for the natural features on their beaches.
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A disagreement over a well-known slice of the Southern California coast is threatening to drive a wedge between Marines and surfers, groups that had recently set aside differences and become political allies.
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This is crazy. We need to stop killing large-scale projects like this for single interest/special interest groups. This is just nuts. We need to keep these things going and expand them, not shut them down.