Elevating historic homes - to protect them from sea level rise
“What they don’t want is a peninsula filled with homes on stilts.” It is no secret that the current federal government in the United States
UPDATE: Canaries in the coal mine—cultural heritage and climate change
Keeping History Above Water—"the increasing and varied risks posed by sea level rise to historic coastal communities, their built envir
“Before it is swallowed by the sea”—erosion may destroy coastal sites before rising seas do
“But after enduring for millennia, these archaeological sites – along with many others from Easter Island to Jamestown – are facing an...
Canaries in the coal mine—cultural heritage and climate change
Keeping History Above Water—"the increasing and varied risks posed by sea level rise to historic coastal communities, their built...
“A vigil for a willow tree at a community garden”—the cultural importance of trees
Central Park in New York City is perhaps the best-known international example of an urban park. Photographer Daniel Arnold spent much of...
Recreating the wilderness—climate change challenges management of National Parks
When Central Park was created in New York City in 1857, the parks landscape designers—Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux—chose the...
“The shock of a double whammy”—are Hurricanes Matthew and Irma the new normal for St. Augustine?
St. Augustine, Florida, is known as the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the continental United States. Situated on...
Thoreau’s Walden Pond—“The opening salvo of the modern conservation movement”
“In wildness is the preservation of the world”—so concluded Henry David Thoreau in his 1851 talk at the Concord Lyceum in Concord,...
Permafrost is no longer permanent—“Even here in sub-Arctic Alaska the rate of warming is high.”
The US federal government is the largest landowner in Alaska, controlling some 60% of the total land area, or 220 million acres of land....
Wild about the Everglades? Look again.
Everglades National Park was created in 1934 to protect its incredibly diverse ecosystems from encroaching urban development in southern...