Welcome to the era of the smart sea wall!

The old cable car station and forge in the mining town of Hiorthhamn are among the cultural monuments that are in danger of being lost. They are weathering due to rapid coastal erosion, caused by ...

Where there had been steep cliffs eroded into the side of the sand dunes in the seaside village by the end of the summer, there are now no dunes at all. On a recent morning, waves slapped against a ...

David Attenborough looks at the world’s coasts - dangerous frontiers ruled by powerful forces, where animals battle to survive amidst constant change. On South Africa’s Robberg Peninsula, thousands of ...

New research from CoreLogic, a real estate-focused analytics company, suggested that home prices in coastal areas classified as high flood risk by the Federal Emergency Management Agency are heavily ...

Given that Citrus County, specifically the Crystal River and Kings Bay area, is marketed as the "Manatee Capital of the World," what impact would such a move have on the local tourism trade and the ...

Yet, amid regulatory pitfalls, a handful of states are rushing to extract raw resources from the seabed. China seems set to dominate deep-sea mining. Minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and ...

Two days after the Town of Fort Myers Beach Council voted in late September to grant a building permit to Kurt Kroemer and Ed Rood for their controversial 298-feet beach walkover at 8150 and 8170 ...

At the start of summer, the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) declared the entire region was under coral bleaching watch or warning, due to the warmer temperatures. For the four ...

“The water used to break right on that stone, before beach replenishment,” Mayor Zack Mullock said during a recent town hall meeting. More recently, high tides have washed over the dune path in that ...

We find that banks are seemingly aware of poor-quality flood maps and are generally less likely to lend in such regions, thereby demonstrating a degree of flood risk management or risk aversion. This ...