Update on funding efforts for the proposed "Ike Dike" project in Texas, whose total cost might now exceed *$57 billion.. Yes, that's *57 billion*... https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/galveston/2025/03/20/516492/house-committee-discusses-bill-to-create-gulf-funding-account-for-ike-dike-other-projects/ #climatechange #climatecrisis #hurricane #sealevelrise #Texas

More on plans to turn Boston's decrepit Pier 5 into an amazing public park: Sailing Organization Touts Big Plans For Charlestown Navy Yard

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Sailing Organization Touts Big Plans For Charlestown Navy Yard | WBZ NewsRadio 1030

A Charlestown sailing organization has big plans for an old Navy Yard pier.

"They want the reconstructed pier to be a kind of harbor community center for the public... Mock-ups show a wave-like main building structure surrounded by walkable green space. There are plans for a 'Learning Lagoon' full of native plants, a pool, classrooms, and lookouts." #Boston #Charlestown #harbor #park #waterfront

“There’s Just No More Land” Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands "Members of the Walande community imagined, financed, and executed their planned relocation, largely without support from the national government or international donors.. People of Walande have shown ingenuity, leadership, and dedication to building a future more protected from the climate crisis."

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“There’s Just No More Land”

The 66-page report, “‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon I...

#climatechange #climatecrisis #sealevelrise

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were four famously ugly and unconstitutional laws enacted during the Quasi War, an undeclared shooting war between the US and France. (Here, a 1799 naval battle in which at least 33 men were killed.) Abuse of this legislation was a huge stain on the presidencies of John Adams and Franklin Roosevelt. I'm astonished to learn that these laws were never revoked and now are being cited by a rogue presidency to justify unlawful actions. #democracy #history

For decades Charlestown has asked for its abandoned Pier 5 to be turned into a public park. Two new proposals are at

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Charlestown Marina would extend its floating docks into the space, after the city pays for pier removal, with no public benefits. Courageous Sailing Center gathered an impressive coalition for a public park with learning lagoon, swimming pool, a center for research vessels and other imaginative touches. #Boston #Charlestown @Universal Hub [@vida_latina](

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Gray morning but first time out on Boston Harbor since October. Here, the Sapphire Coast and its cement barge swing on the tide. #Boston #harbor #paddling #kayaking

A Story About Salmon That Almost Had a Happy Ending "Completion of the world’s largest dam removal project — which demolished four Klamath River hydroelectric dams on both sides of the California-Oregon border — has been celebrated as a monumental achievement, signaling the emerging political power of Native American tribes and the river-protection movement... It is fortunate that the project was approved in 2022 and completed last October."

Opinion | The Salmon Are Thriving. So Are Many of the People. Why Would Anyone Shut This Down?

How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

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A good snapshot of work by MIT's remarkable Miho Mazereeuw on disaster prevention:

Wesleyan University

Alum Talk on Disaster Preparedness

Her Urban Risk Lab’s Housing Recovery Toolkit (

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Preemptive Recovery Platform — Urban Risk Lab

) "brings together disaster managers, housing and planning departments, and community organizations before anything goes wrong in order to plan to rebuild an ideal city... Local governments can use this at their pace whenever they have time, and because it’s an online tool, they’re able to update it when necessary.'”

The annual Shamrock Splash, which raises money for the excellent programs of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, went off swimmingly today on East Boston's Constitution Beach despite the freezing wind. More photos:

Safe harbor – Eric Bender

#Boston #harbor #coastal #environmentaljustice #nonprofit @Universal Hub

Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World

Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World

The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.

(shared) Science "is one of the only areas of human endeavor that take us out of ourselves. We exist at a time when we are being crunched ever inward... There is a kind of implosive effect of the modern world, and the science and nature writing that I’m prioritizing, and the birding that I do, are all counters to that. They are a way of radiating your attention outward." #science #birding #nature