Seawater isn’t just intruding upon the lands of poor countries. In the U.S., Alaska’s village of Kivalina has constructed a wall to hold the ocean back. Sea ice used to protect the barrier reef the village is situated on, but the ice melts sooner each year, leaving the community unprotected from storm waves. Even California coastal towns are preparing for rising waters. Newport Beach is raising seawalls, and new homes along the city’s harbor are being built on foundations several feet higher.
How nations are coping with rising seas
Environmental Wins of 2011, via NRDC.
Some FTWs include protections for: Beluga, Buffalo, boreal forests, polar bears, Alaskan rain forest, treaty on bottom trawling in the North Pacific, Grizzly Bears, Tar Sands…