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Akie Abe questions Tohoku seawall plan in N.Y. speech

NEW YORK, United States - Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, makes a keynote speech during a disaster prevention symposium at the Ford Foundation in New York on Sept. 25, 2014. The first lady questioned a plan to build high seawalls in the northeastern Japan areas impacted by the devastating March 2011 tsunami.

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Large-scale conservation project to restore marine environments in Australia's Sydney Harbour

STORY: Large-scale conservation project to restore marine environments in Australia's Sydney Harbour DATELINE: August 24, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: various of sea environment (Source: Environment NSW)various of Sydneyvarious of divers working in ocean STORYLINE: The government of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has announced a 9.1 million Australian dollars (about 6.28 million U.S. dollars) initiative, which will seek to restore kelp forests and sea horse populations to the iconic Sydney Harbour. The investment would be delivered across three projects including installing living seawalls and replanting seagrass meadows and kelp forests, conducting a census of penguin populations that inhabit the harbour and assessing the habitat of seals in the harbour. More than 85 percent of people in NSW live within 50 km of the coast, and as such more than 50 percent of Sydney Harbour's shoreline is occupied by urban structures, and more than 142,0

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Japan begins seawall work for new U.S. base in Okinawa

People stage a sit-in in front of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2017, to protest against the Japanese government's launch of construction of seawalls for a replacement facility for the U.S. Air Station Futenma in the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan begins seawall work for new U.S. base in Okinawa

People stage a sit-in in front of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2017, to protest against the Japanese government's launch of construction of seawalls for a replacement facility for the U.S. Air Station Futenma in the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sit-in protest against U.S. base transfer work

Riot officers remove one of the protesters against a U.S. base relocation plan from near the gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in the Henoko coastal district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2018. The protesters sat in at the gate of Camp Schwab to block work to build seawalls in the district, which began exactly one year ago for the relocation of the Marines' Air Station Futenma. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sit-in protest against U.S. base transfer work

People stage a sit-in at the gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in the Henoko coastal district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2018, to protest against the planned relocation of the Marines' Air Station Futenma to the district. The day marked the anniversary of the start by the Japanese government of work to build seawalls for the relocation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seawall construction site in Nago, Okinawa

Photo taken May 24, 2017, from a drone shows the seawall construction site at the coastal area in Nago in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa. One month has passed since the central government started the construction of the seawalls on April 25 for a planned replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan begins seawall work for controversial U.S. base in Okinawa

Protestors in canoes try to negotiate their way over floats off the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2017, as the Japanese government began constructing seawalls for a planned replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan begins seawall work for controversial U.S. base in Okinawa

Protestors in canoes paddle off the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2017, as the Japanese government began constructing seawalls for a planned replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the prefecture. The photo was taken by a drone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan begins seawall work for new U.S. base in Okinawa

People stage a sit-in in front of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2017, to protest against the Japanese government's launch of construction of seawalls for a replacement facility for the U.S. Air Station Futenma in the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo