Recent changes Random page
GAMING
Politics
 
Gaming
Entertainment
Science Fiction
Biggest wikis
Hobbies
Music
See more...

Coasts

From Sustainable Community Action

Jump to: navigation, search

< Ideas Bank, < Environmental wellbeing


Portal article

Contents

[edit] Action Ideas

  • Beach clean ups

[edit] Why it matters

(introductory para needed)

[edit] Environmental importance

The coast and its adjacent areas on and off shore is an important part of a local ecosystem as the mixture of fresh water and salt water in estuaries provides many nutrients for marine life. Salt marshes and beaches also support a diversity of plants, animals, and insects crucial to the food chain.

Like the ocean which shapes them, coasts are a dynamic environment with constant change. The earth's natural processes, particularly sea level rise, waves and various weather phenomena, have resulted in the erosion, accretion and reshaping of coasts as well as flooding and creation of continental shelves and drowned river valleys (rias).

[edit] Related topics

[edit] Related wikipedia content

[edit] Global News

  • "Ecosystem changes will continue to worsen, global development goals at risk", March 30 2005

[edit] Random facts

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] External links

[edit] Blogs


Smallwikipedialogo.png This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Coast. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with this Sustainable Community Action wiki, the content of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Rate this article:
Share this article: