NEWS & ARTICLES
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...
1000’s of Tasman homes at risk of storm inundation & sea-level rise
Source: Stuff (dated December 16th, 2020) - An estimated 8400 people live in low-lying coastal areas of Tasman District that are considered vulnerable to storm inundation and sea level rise, according to a new Council report. More than 5000 buildings, mostly in...
How long is it financially safe to own a low-lying coastal home?
Source: Radio NZ news article (dated Dec. 14th, 2020) - This article highlights that at some point in the next five, 10, or 15 years, the penny will drop with buyers that low-lying coastal properties are long-term financial liabilities. Insurers have already started...