Climate Change Concern About to Removed from Florida Energy Law May 2, 2024 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida, perhaps the most vulnerable state to sea-level rise and extreme weather, is on the verge...
Massachusetts Climate Strategy Brings Together Its 78 Coastal Communities November 30, 2023 Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has announced a plan to assist the state’s 78 coastal communities from Cape Cod to the...
Rates to Rise for Millions of Homeowners Under National Flood Insurance Program October 4, 2021 By Leslie Kaufman and Polly Mosendz The federal government Friday rolled out a flood-insurance program revamped to reflect worsening climate change, a program that will raise...
University of New Hampshire Gets $1.8M to Study Road Damage from Coastal Flooding September 15, 2021 The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to study how and why coastal hazards like...
Coastal Flooding Could Threaten 20% of World’s Economic Output by 2100: Study July 30, 2020 Failure to rein in climate change and bolster sea defenses could jeopardize up to a fifth of the world’s economic...
High-Tide ‘Nuisance’ Flooding to Continue to Grow and Plague U.S. Communities: NOAA July 16, 2020 Coastal communities in the U.S. continued to see record-setting high-tide flooding last year, forcing their residents and visitors to deal...
Wildlife Protection Rezoning Could Mean Flood Insurance Aid for 900 Coastal Mansions July 26, 2019 By Dave Collins On an exclusive Connecticut peninsula, where signs warn outsiders to stay off private roads, eight multimillion-dollar homes with sprawling yards...
Hurricane Florence Could Pressure Congress to Extend NFIP, IIAV’s Bradshaw Says September 13, 2018 By Elizabeth Blosfield Hurricane Florence could put pressure on U.S. Congress to extend the National Flood Insurance Program, but “it is still an...
NOAA Expects Sea Level Rise to Produce Record Coastal Flooding This Year June 7, 2018 By Don Jergler Break out the galoshes. The projected increase in high tide flooding in 2018 may be as much as 60 percent...
Nor’easter May Break Records, Threatens Billions in Real Estate March 2, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan A potentially record-breaking nor’easter is set to pummel the U.S. East Coast with wind, snow and rain Friday, putting billions...