Tag: Coastal flooding
More frequent and intense tropical storms mean less recovery time for...
Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tropical cyclones – storms that bring strong, rotating winds and rain, and which can intensify into...
Why are Atlantic and Gulf coast property owners building back bigger...
Eli Lazarus, University of Southampton and Evan B. Goldstein, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
U.S. coastal counties are densely populated and extensively developed. They...
Coral reefs provide flood protection worth $1.8 billion every year –...
Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz
The news is grim: According to a report compiled by hundreds of scientists from 50 countries, Earth is...
Coral reefs provide flood protection worth $1.8 billion every year –...
Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz
The news is grim: According to a report compiled by hundreds of scientists from 50 countries, Earth is...
Protecting wetlands helps communities reduce damage from hurricanes and storms
Siddharth Narayan, University of California, Santa Cruz and Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz
2017 was the worst year on record for hurricane damage...
Far-sighted adaptation to rising seas is blocked by just fixing eroded...
Andrew G. Keeler, East Carolina University; Dylan McNamara, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Jennifer Irish, Virginia Tech
Coastal communities around the world are struggling...
As communities rebuild after hurricanes, study shows wetlands can significantly reduce...
Siddharth Narayan, University of California, Santa Cruz and Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz
A 12-year “hurricane drought” during which no major hurricanes formed...
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Robert John Young, University of Salford
In my time I have seen some pretty strange things parading as art – I still vividly remember the...
