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Thus, the federally controlled US Army Corps of Engineers were put in charge of the levees decades ago. The construction and maintenance of the levees are a FEDERAL responsibility - and so was their failure.

This project, within the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program's National Assessment, seeks to objectively determine the relative risks due to future sea-level rise for the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico coasts.

The US is a coastal nation with over 12,000 miles of coastline. With 53% of all Americans living in and around coastal cities and towns, it is important to understand the impact of climate-induced sea level rise on our nation. Previous studies have ...

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Dugongs living on the coast of Japan's Okinawa island are threatened by the proposed expansion of a U.S. military base there...

Citizens of Appalachia did not have to wait long for the Bush administration's assault on our beloved mountains. Before the ink was even dry on more than 70,000 public comments demanding a halt to mountaintop removal mining, the Bush administration ...

It was used as a chemical weapon in the trenches in the First World War, but nearly a century later, new research by an international team of scientists has discovered that phosgene is present in significant quantities in the atmosphere.

The Bush Administration is continuing its campaign to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to massive oil development. President Bush called for Arctic drilling in his latest budget proposal and has given the green light for Shell to conduct explorato

The famed Northwest Passage is ice free for the first time since satellite records began in 1978