Hundreds of communities line the Mississippi River on its 2,348-mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico, but Davenport, Iowa, stands...
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Washington is announcing a goal of retrofitting or removing all of its flood-prone buildings by 2050, the first major U.S....
When Miami Beach borrowed $162 million from Wall Street this week, it wanted investors to know rising seas and extreme...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a $10 billion plan to push out the lower Manhattan coastline as much...
Last fall, after a trio of deadly hurricanes, ratings companies warned vulnerable coastal cities to get ready for climate change...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s warning of Hurricane Sandy-like destruction of the shore will be tested as the worst storm...
Nine oceanfront homeowners in Bay Head, New Jersey, are asking a judge to declare that the state has no legal...
Among the lessons to be learned from Hurricane Katrina are that communities and all stakeholders should prioritize flooding as the...
The threat of a flood insurance nightmare in Louisiana’s Rapides Parish and elsewhere was delayed, but not eliminated, by Congress...
A study by a leading coastal science center lends new support to New Jersey’s efforts to build protective sand dunes...