February 11, 2025
The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff in Wellfleet high above the beach. It’s just a matter of when. Erosion has marched right up to the …
January 12, 2024
As sea levels rise in coming years, younger people will move inland, while aging populations will be stuck with the growing risk in coastal areas, a Florida State University professor and researchers have concluded. “Older populations are the least likely …
August 24, 2023
Local and federal officials have agreed to a plan to study new ways to protect much of Miami from rising seas and storm surge in the decades ahead, measures that could include dune reinforcements, extensive mangroves and barrier gates at …
July 24, 2023
Many of the lowest-lying coastal areas of the Southeastern United States, including some heavily populated parts of Florida, will be subject to increased annual flooding in less than 30 years, according to scenarios mapped by a climate research organization. Under …
February 16, 2023
Nearly every other American believes that people in the U.S. are being harmed by global warming right now. It may be a bit of a revelation that half of the nation believes climate change is here and now. What’s not …
December 1, 2022
Sea levels along U.S. coastlines could rise as much as 12 inches above today’s waterline by 2050, according to NASA researchers. The results from the NASA Sea Level Change Team rely on measurements from a network of satellite altimeters along …
September 14, 2022
NORFOLK, Va. — The Elizabeth River Project’s latest work doesn’t fight the rising tide. It will roll with it. The environmental group is constructing a 6,500-foot resilience lab along Colley Avenue and Knitting Mill Creek. The building has an intentional …
July 28, 2022
The Financial Stability Oversight Council convened on Thursday to identify and address climate-related financial risk. The FOC last year published an extensive report on climate-related financial risk and issued dozens of best-practices recommendations to U.S. financial regulators to identify and …
April 12, 2022
TANGIER ISLAND, Virginia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – James “Ooker” Eskridge’s family – like those of many of his neighbors – has lived on this isolated island in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay for generations. But its long traditions, which include crabbing and …
February 17, 2022
Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the U.S. by 2050, according to new research. The research, led by the University of Bristol and published in Nature Climate Change, also …