Future Earth Coasts
News and EventsCoastal and marine planning in the Westfjords, Iceland
Today we bring you news from the Sustainable Resilient Coasts (COAST), a Future Earth Coasts affiliated project seeking to establish the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) region as a demonstration of how to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the...
Webinar: Tools For Climate-Smart Decision Making
The European Space Agency (ESA) has joined forces with the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) to host a community webinar on 23 April 2021 (13:30-15:00 CET) to share progress in the development of tools that use Earth observations towards climate-smart decision...
CERTO: monitoring water quality at a global scale
Pictured: Satellite image of the Tagus estuary (via Certo-project.org) Water quality is a worldwide issue affecting food production, industry, nature, recreation and ultimately human wellbeing. Copernicus Evolution: Research for harmonised and Transitional water...
Threats to Biodiversity in Australia’s Burdekin River Basin
Pictured: The Burdekin Falls Dam, built in 1987, the largest dam in Queensland, Australia. ©CSIRO Prof Eric Wolanski, a FEC Academy member currently working at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) at James Cook University,...
Promoting Ocean Acidification Awareness and Research in Africa: a Virtual event
The OA-Africa Network and OA-ICC virtual event to promote Ocean Acidification Awareness and Research in Africa will take place on the 5th of February from 9 am to 12 pm (GMT). This event follows the OA Day of action side event held in person in Monrovia on the 8th...
South Africa’s largest estuarine lake mouth artificially breached in defiance of restoration efforts
Professor Anthony Forbes, FEC Academy Member, shared some interesting news with us. On January 6th the sand barrier separating the Lake St Lucia Estuary from the sea was artificially breached by the iSimangaliso Authority in apparent disregard of its own management...
Promoting Ocean Acidification Awareness and Research in Africa
OA-Africa Side Event at OA Day of Action in Liberia on January 8, 2021 At the upcoming OA Day of Action to be held in Liberia, OA-Africa is hosting a side event event in partnership withThe Ocean Foundation, the IAEA OA-ICC, Future Earth Coasts, Environmental...
Recent publications by ongoing OCEANS PACT and BRICS coastal risk governance projects
Recent publications by ongoing OCEANS PACT and BRICS coastal risk governance projects Researchers from the FEC community are playing key roles in a number of activities and we are always keen to inform you about their progress and findings along the way. Bruce...
The Marine Plastic Litter Issue: A Social-Economic Analysis
The Marine Plastic Litter Issue: A Social-Economic Analysis "The Marine Plastic Litter Issue: A Social-Economic Analysis" has been published in Sustainability as part of the Special Issue 'Microplastics - Macro Challenge for Environmental Sustainability' and is...
The Fukushima Coast
FEC Fellow Dr Leslie Mabon recently wrote a short evidence-based explainer to summarize what is happening to the Fukushima coast based on the latest research and scientific evidence. The Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear accident in Japan in 2011 was one of the largest...