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Example of land loss in coastal Louisiana between 1932 and 2011; detail of Port Fourchon area. Coastal erosion in Louisiana is the process of steady depletion of wetlands along the state's coastline in marshes, swamps, and barrier islands, particularly affecting the alluvial basin surrounding the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Easter Island is a volcanic island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape.
Taylor oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, since 2004; Sidoarjo mud flow triggered by Lapindo Brantas gas exploration in 2006; East Java, Indonesia; Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, April to July 2010; 2010 ExxonMobil oil spill in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, May 2010; Jebel al-Zayt oil spill in the Red Sea, June 2010
Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, ...
A promising anti-aging compound found around the statues of Easter Island continues to impress scientists, notes Metro. Called rapamycin, it is a naturally occurring by-product of bacteria from ...
Typical landscape on Easter Island; rounded extinct volcanoes covered in low vegetation. Easter Island is a volcanic island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape.
On Monday, Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano erupted, causing a wildfire that swept through the Rano Raraku area and damaged the island's iconic stone heads. Rano Raraku is also known as the ...
Continual nourishment. Oak Island's first beach nourishment project took place in 2001 in response to damage from 1999's Hurricane Floyd. Since then, the town has been reliant on sand-pumping ...