Welcome to the era of the smart sea wall!

Mike Valley, who smokes and sells his catches at Valley Fish and Cheese in Prairie du Chien, Wis., recalls bygone days when fishing was a big industry on the Mississippi River. Today, just a few ...

Wearing a flannel shirt and thick rubber gloves, Dorothy Peteet veered off a woodland trail in the Bronx’s Pelham Bay Park into a thick melange of brambles, fallen logs and poison ivy. About 100 feet ...

The report referred to a “managed retreat” which could result in tens of thousands of home and business properties being abandoned in reaction to coastal erosion. Fifteen recommendations are proposed ...

Climate change is affecting communities nationwide, but Florida often seems like ground zero. In September 2022, Hurricane Ian devastated southwest Florida, killing at least 156 people and causing an ...

Recent research reveals a striking correlation to how life evolved over 500 million years. The movement of rivers, mountains, oceans, and sediment nutrients at the geological timescale are central ...

Peggy Savery plays cards with her husband Lloyd at her new table in a sun-drenched kitchen. The family is still settling into their new home in Port aux Basques, bought and furnished by a hodgepodge ...

The lower Mississippi River delta is facing unprecedented threats, from hurricanes, rising seas, ground subsidence, diminishing river sediment, coastal dead zones – and decades of dredging. Because of ...

A paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world’s ...

Today, NOAA announced it will provide a new award of nearly $500,000 to WPI for the related project “Improving Engagement Methods for Coastal Resilience and Reducing Climate Risk: Bridging Learning ...

The 36-month interdisciplinary project, which will see academics from the Faculty of Science and Engineering working together, has been awarded a grant of £307,445 from the Leverhulme Trust. Coastal ...

Today, Crosson Architects won a Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects national award for North Piha’s surf lifeguard tower, which it designed. The architects were praised for their ...