Gulf Coast, Mississippi River Cities Eager for Flood Funding April 19, 2022 By Michael Phillis ST. LOUIS (AP) — When Hurricane Ida hit last summer, a storm surge overwhelmed a levee and gushed into Ted...
Philippines: 20 Dead, Thousands Of Homes Damaged in Typhoon November 3, 2020 By Jim Gomez MANILA, Philippines — At least 20 people were killed as Typhoon Goni lashed the Philippines over the weekend, and about...
Laura Is Poised to Become a ‘Catastrophic’ Category 4 Hurricane August 26, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan Hurricane Laura is set to slam into the U.S. Gulf Coast early Thursday as an extremely powerful Category 4 storm,...
Coastal Flooding Could Hit 20% of World GDP by 2100 – Study July 30, 2020 By Simon Jessop LONDON — Failure to rein in climate change and bolster sea defenses could jeopardize up to a fifth of the...
Bayside Islets Being Used by Eastern Shore Towns to Ease Island Flooding January 3, 2019 By AVALON ZOPPO, The Press of Atlantic City At last Thursday’s high tide, a tiny tugboat named Bonnie pulled a red barge through Great Egg Harbor Bay, N.J....
New Jersey Shore Homeowners Drop Suit Fighting Sand Dunes April 18, 2017 By WAYNE PARRY Some of the most resolute holdouts against a plan to build protective sand dunes in a part of the New...
Global Weather Agency Takes 3 Hurricane Names Off the List April 29, 2016 WMO’s Hurricane Committee announced that it will no longer use the names Erika and Joaquin for future tropical storms or...
California Residents Using Drones to Map El Nino Flooding January 27, 2016 By GILLIAN FLACCUS Forget about selfies. In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline’s changing face. Starting this month,...
AIR Adds Storm Surge Feature to U.S. Hurricane Model June 29, 2015 Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has updated its hurricane model for the U.S. to help insurers and reinsurers...
Researchers Find East Coast Hurricanes Can Flood the Midwest November 12, 2014 Located hundreds of miles inland from the nearest ocean, the Midwest is unaffected by North Atlantic hurricanes. Or is it?...