Articles for tag: Animal Adaptation, crabs, Florida Wildlife, Marine Life, Sea Level Rise

red and brown crab on black rock

How Florida’s Crabs Are Adapting to Rising Tides

Suhail Ahmed

  On Florida’s coasts, the water is creeping higher, the chemistry is shifting, and the old rules that crabs lived by are being rewritten in real time. Estuaries that once felt predictable now swing between fresher deluges and salty king tides, warming faster than many fishers remember. Yet amid the churn, a quiet story of ...

The Science Behind Storm Surge Formation

Why North Carolina’s Coast Is So Vulnerable to Storm Surges

Gargi Chakravorty

North Carolina’s coastline represents one of America’s most beautiful but treacherous stretches of land, where nature’s fury regularly reminds residents and visitors that living at the edge of the ocean carries profound risks. The state’s coastal communities face a perfect storm of geographic vulnerabilities that make them particularly susceptible to devastating storm surges, threatening lives, ...