sea level rise

In the early 2000s, scientists began finding what appeared to be bald spots in dense, grassy salt marshes up and down the East Coast. These patches have since multiplied, and they now threaten to destroy coastal landscapes. Eventually, the culprit was identified: persistent, ravenous, purple crabs. Finally, scientists may have a plan to beat them.

People can join the tour by scanning QR codes atop small posts along the 2.2 mile loop — or take the tour virtually. The tour includes stops at Stoney Beach, Landfall Restaurant, and the Steamship Authority.

At Barnstable Harbor Marina last week, a group of 16-to-19-year-olds painted five wooden pilings to show where the mean high tide is today and where it could be with one, two, three, four, and five feet of sea level rise, which could happen by the end of the century as a result of climate change.

Town officials talked about action their communities have taken or plan to take, and how they can work together.

Erosion, sea level rise, and more intense and frequent storms have threatened the original lot, which has shrunk in recent years to hold about 500 parking spaces, a beach administration building, and a gazebo, prompting the town to develop a managed retreat plan.

More than 200 scientists from more than 60 countries worked on the report, which was released Monday by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report, the first major review of its kind since 2013, draws upon more than 14,000 individual studies and is being described as a “code red for humanity.”

Catastrophic damage from climate change threatens coastal homes all over the Cape, and Islands, prompting regional planners to eye managed coastal retreat options

Wearing tall rubber boots, a scientist walked along an overgrown path to the Little Bay salt marsh in Fairhaven. “I'm going to kind of weave us up through…

As greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere, the planet gets hotter, land-based ice melts, and warming ocean water expands. The result is sea level…

Much of what we hear about rising sea levels consists of long-range projections hundreds of years in the future -- projections that mostly consider the…