by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 20, 2021 | Coastal Communities, News
November is Native Heritage Month, celebrating and honoring the rich histories and traditions of Indigenous peoples. Rhode Island’s coastal and marine areas are a part of the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett, Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Niantic...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 16, 2021 | Coastal Communities, News
By Meredith HaasContributions by Allie Shinskey Retreat. Accommodate. Protect. Attack. These are common phrases used for adaptation and mitigation efforts in the “war on climate change.” But does this militaristic approach result in more conflict that hinders real...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 30, 2019 | Coastal Communities, Marine Law, News
Dam Liability New Climate Issue in Rhode Island There are dozens of dams throughout Rhode Island that are considered unsafe, with one expert telling the Providence Journal, “we are literally one storm away from loss of life.” Of the 668 dams in the state—many more...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sometimes to move forward you have to go back – sometimes as far as hundreds of thousands or millions of years. This is the case for scientists looking to reconstruct the past in order to better understand climatic changes happening today and what may be expected in...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 9, 2016 | Coastal Communities, News
Army Corps proposal to elevate homes and sea level rise projection maps presented at Beach SAMP meeting. Matunuck’s shoreline has moved a lot further landward than was 80 years ago, and it will continue to move further landward — and more rapidly — in the...
