America’s Venice? Study Finds New York City Is Slowly Sinking From Its Own Weight June 1, 2023 By Bobby Caina Calvan If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking...
Beach Town, State of New Jersey Exchange Lawsuits in Sand Dunes Battle January 11, 2023 By Wayne Parry NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A beach town that is defying New Jersey’s order not to shore up its eroding...
NASA: U.S. Coastlines Could Experience a Foot of Sea Level Rise Within 30 Years December 1, 2022 By Don Jergler Sea levels along U.S. coastlines could rise as much as 12 inches above today’s waterline by 2050, according to NASA...
U.S. to Urge Barriers, Elevation to Fight New Jersey Back Bay Flooding February 26, 2021 By Wayne Parry The federal government will recommend flood control measures including storm surge barriers, floodwalls and elevating homes and other buildings in...
How Climate Change May Affect Hurricane Risk and Losses: AIR, Brookings, AXIS January 19, 2021 By 2050, climate change-related weather events will have a meaningful impact on future hurricane losses, increasing them by 20% or...
Update: Louisiana Residents Flee as Delta Bears Down on U.S. Gulf Coast October 8, 2020 By Stephanie Kelly 10/09/2020 10:41 AM LAKE CHARLES, La., Oct 9 — The streets in Lake Charles in southwest Louisiana were deserted as...
CoreLogic: Nearly 300K Gulf Coast Homes at Possible Risk From Delta October 8, 2020 CoreLogic an Irvine, Calif.-based global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, has released data analysis showing 293,685 single-family and...
Using Building Codes and Property Characteristics to Keep up With 2020 Hurricane Season September 18, 2020 By Saumi Shokraee, Tom Jeffery, Senior Hazard Scientist, Tom Larsen, Daniel Betten, Principal Research Scientist, Curtis McDonald and David Smith, Senior Leader, Science and Analytics Group This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Though the COVID-19 pandemic is occupying most of our attention...
Slowness, Not Speed, of Hurricanes Like Sally Becoming Major Concern September 17, 2020 By Jennifer Hiller and Devika Krishna Kumar For Grant Saltz, who runs a barbecue restaurant in Mobile, Alabama, what struck him about Hurricane Sally was its steady,...
More than 14K Homes Vulnerable to Hanna’s Storm Surge, CoreLogic Says July 27, 2020 CoreLogic has estimated that more than 14,000 homes were at risk of storm surge damage from Hurricane Hanna, which made...