When John Couch is certain a storm will hit Hatteras Island, he goes into action, moving merchandise in his auto parts store from bottom shelves to top ones and hauling away the most valuable items. But at 64 years old, …
More than 6.8 million homes located on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are in danger of hurricane storm surge damage, according CoreLogic’s latest storm surge report. The total cost for reconstruction of the homes located in 19 states and the …
Warmer air, less frigid water and gravity may combine to make parts of Antarctica’s western ice sheet melt far faster than scientists had thought, raising sea levels much more than expected by the end of the century, according to a …
Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of man-made global warming, according to new studies. An international team of scientists dug into two dozen locations across …
It’s been three years since Superstorm Sandy, regarded as a one in 500 year event, struck a dozen states in the Northeast. The storm’s size, a 1000 mild wide wind field, and record-breaking low pressure devastated parts of the Eastern …
A new study looking back over 1,000 years finds the flooding risk along the New York and New Jersey coasts increased greatly after industrialization, and major storms that once might have occurred every 500 years could soon happen every 25 …
Catastrophe modeling, advances in mitigation as well as building design changes are just a few of the areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina nearly 10 years ago, according to Rick Miller, U.S. property practice leader at Aon Risk Solutions. Miller spoke …
With more than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts at risk of hurricane storm surge in 2015, CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, estimates the total reconstruction cost value (RCV) at nearly $1.5 …
A study by a leading coastal science center lends new support to New Jersey’s efforts to build protective sand dunes along its 127-mile coast. The Coastal Research Center at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey studied the state’s beaches …
A project to protect 375 homes and 15 businesses in Larose, La., including North American Shipyard, from flooding and storm surge will begin in January. The Daily Comet reports Lafourche Parish government inked an agreement following its Oct. 28 council …