Tide

Isle de Jean Charles

A new book tells the stories of people coping with a changing American shoreline

Climate Change

Across the United States, it doesn’t take a devastating storm for scientists and citizens to see the unwelcome transformations that climate change is causing right now.

The World

Proctor & Gamble look for rising ‘Tide’ of dry cleaners

Post-Sandy rebuilding in New Jersey

In post-Sandy New York, a Dutch architect pushes oysters, islands and inlets to fight future floods

Environment

VIDEO: Bangkok residents worry floodwaters will innundate city this weekend

Re-Branding Tide in the Wake of Mass Thefts

The World

Toxic Tide – Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster, Part 2

Gulf Coast residents wonder if their health complaints are connected to BP’s oil spill. In part two of this special report, scientists explain their search for answers in their data from the Deepwater disaster. They’re finding a number of ways people might have been exposed, from fumes rising off the oil and dispersants to a rare phenomenon known as “oil rain.”

The World

An Island with Tidal Bores

Arts, Culture & Media

Looking for the world’s third largest island that is shared by three countries.

Beach Erosion

Natural erosion along with human development is threatening 70-90 percent of the beaches on American shores. New York Times Science Editor Cornelia Dean, author of the book Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches, discusses these threats to America’s coastline with host Steve Curwood.

The World

Estuary Series Part 2: Upstream Development and its Effects

On average, coastal counties are growing three times faster than other areas, and the population pressures one sees in some place like Great Bay in New Hampshire are even more visible at the southern end of Cape Cod, Massachusetts at Waquoit Bay. Intense development upstream from Waquoit generates a daily tide of household wastewater that […]

The World

Toxic Tide – Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster, Part 2

Gulf Coast residents wonder if their health complaints are connected to BP’s oil spill. In part two of this special report, scientists explain their search for answers in their data from the Deepwater disaster. They’re finding a number of ways people migh