Coast
Sea fog arrives in the warm months and is not the weather you booked
A coast can be cold, grey and invisible on a day the interior is in full sun, because the fog forms over…
Coast
Shorelines, islands and the seasons that decide whether they are worth it.
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A dune system is held together by grass and very little else
The hills of sand behind a beach are built by wind, stabilised by a few specialised plants, and undone by…
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The strandline is a daily delivery of everything the sea has been carrying
The untidy line of weed and debris at the top of a beach is a record of the last tide, a functioning…
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A small island loses its school before it loses its population
Depopulation on small islands runs through a predictable sequence of institutional closures, and each…
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A delta is land the river is still delivering, and the delivery has slowed
River mouths that build land do so only while sediment keeps arriving, and much of what makes deltas…
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A seabird cliff is fully occupied for a few weeks and then abandoned
Colonial seabirds come ashore only to breed, which compresses the entire spectacle into a short and fairly…
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Defending a coast means deciding which parts will not be defended
Sea walls and groynes are expensive, they move the problem along the shore, and the policy question…
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Fresh water sets the real capacity of a small island
Islands sit on a thin lens of rainwater floating above salt, and how much of it can be drawn without…