NEWS & ARTICLES
“Ditching the beach house: Who makes the tough calls on ‘managed retreats’ — and who pays?”
Source: New Zealand Herald news article (March 10th, 2021) – an opinion piece by Christina Hanna (lecturer in environmental planning, University of Waikato), Bruce Glavovic (professor at Massey University) and Iain White (professor of environmental planning,...
Are architects normalising the precariousness of coastal living?
Climate change begets more frequent severe weather and flood events, whose capacity for destruction should check coastal development—but it hasn’t. Instead, the same actors (developers, engineers, architects) respond by building higher or stronger, elevating a mantle...
Predicting Auckland’s exposure to coastal instability & erosion – an important step forward …
Auckland City has high exposure to coastal hazards including coastal instability and erosion since the region has over 3,200 km of coastline including three major harbours and a range of sandy beaches and dunes, rocky shores and cliffs, estuaries and offshore islands....
Climate Change is weakening major ocean currents that shape weather – here’s why you should begin to care …
Modified Source Extracts: Inside Climate News and The Guardian news article (dated 25 & 26th Feb. 2021) - The oceans have thousands of currents, gyres and eddies that carry water around the planet. Their movements regulate the Earth’s climate and transport...
Is your house located in a high-risk natural disaster area?
Source: NZ Stuff news article (Feb. 14th 2021) - Natural disasters have hit homeowners in parts of New Zealand hard over recent years, but there are ways to find out if your property is in a high-risk area for natural disasters –...
Latest sea level rise forecast alarms scientists
Source: The Guardian news article (Feb. 2nd, 2021) - Rising sea levels seem one of the more distant threats of the climate emergency, unless you live in a house close to the high tide mark or on an eroding cliff. The annual rise of 3-mm (0.12 in) does not seem much...
Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests
Source: Reuters news article (25th Jan. 2021) - Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures and sea-level’s ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have...
On ‘borrowed time’ – coastal property values at Port Waikato affected by continuing erosion
Source: NZ Stuff news article (21st Jan. 2021) - Living by the beach isn’t particularly relaxing when the sea could wipe out your home in less than two decades. When Jo Poland bought a coastal property at Port Waikato in 1994, she looked at the ocean through rows of...
World’s oceans continue to warm, despite reduced carbon emissions
Source: CGTN news article (17th Jan. 2021) - Despite reductions in global carbon emissions due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the world's oceans in 2020 were the warmest in recorded history, according to a new study just published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric...
Coastal properties in hot demand
Source: Radio NZ news article (dated Jan. 5th, 2021) - A valuation company said that coastal properties remain popular as buyers fail to heed dire forecasts about the effects of future climate change. A report released in December by Deep South National Science has...