• As world's deltas sink, rising seas are far from only culprit — Yale E360

  • Climate change is often blamed for loss of coastland in deltas (Bay of Bengal, Mississippi, etc.) via sea level rise, but dam building and urbanization also play a major role: they disrupt sediment deposition, causing land to continue sinking
  • Sustainable development policies — mangrove reforestation, controlled flooding to allow sedimentation, and other nature-based solutions — can address these factors
  • Focusing solely on climate change causes more addressable mechanisms to be ignored

• Why covering canals with solar panels is a power move: covering waterways would make solar panels water-cooled, boosting their efficiency — WIRED

• Nature-Based Solutions Initiative — guidelines and case studies

• A team of chemical and biological engineers developed a spongy, jello-like material that absorbs clean water from the air and releases it when warmed by the sun — Anthropocene Magazine

• Scientists look for the holy grail: the whitest paint ever — to paint roofs and reflect sunlight; the most recent version has a net cooling effect — Grist

• Design of a soft robot that can explore the bottom of the Mariana Trench — Nature

• These trees are not what they seem: how the Nature Conservancy, the world's biggest environmental group, became a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets — Ben Elgin, Bloomberg

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