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A crew works on a living shoreline in Maine

Maine Coastal Towns Join to Prevent Flooding Using Nature-based Methods

One-half million dollars in federal funding with matching funds will pay for collaborative effort
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Johanna Knapschaefer
December 12, 2021
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With $500K in federal and private funds, 11 Casco Bay communities will test alternative approaches to mitigate coastal flooding caused by the climate crisis.
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Study Finds San Francisco Bay is Sinking Faster than Expected

Sea-Level Rise isn’t the Only Factor in Bay Area’s Future Flooding Risk
Alan Rider
April 30, 2019
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Some areas of the region are sinking as fast as 19 mm — .75 inches — a year.
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Flooding Damage From Massive Winter Storm in Massachusetts Will Take Weeks to Assess

Frigid temperatures will complicate cleanup and damage assessment efforts
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Justin Rice
January 5, 2018
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A massive snowstorm dubbed the “bomb cyclone” broke Boston’s record for its highest tide ever recorded by the National Weather Service, but fully assessing the storm's damage will take weeks in a region that was plunged into frigid temperatures the day after the Jan. 4 storm.


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Discovery of Engineering Failure Leads Miami Beach to Flooding Fix

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Scott Judy
August 10, 2017
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After Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood experienced extreme foot-deep “sunny-day flooding” because of a king tide, city engineer Bruce Mowry and public-works director Eric Carpenter realized the city’s injection-well drainage system didn’t work.


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Tangier Island Mayor James Eskridge
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Special Report: How Engineers Are Preparing for Sea-Level Rise

From Seattle to Cape Cod, see what's being done at 18 different locations
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Pam Radtke Russell
August 10, 2017
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As sea levels rise—compounding coastal problems such as erosion, storm surge and tidal flooding—engineers are changing the way they work, using adaptive design and new technologies to prepare for an uncertain future


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Seattle Rebuilds Seawalls With an Eye Toward the Future

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Tim Newcomb
August 10, 2017
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When Seattle looked to rebuild its 100-year-old Elliott Bay seawall in the downtown, planners knew it had to be stronger and better, but it didn’t necessarily have to be taller.


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Digging Down To Avoid Sea-Level Rise in Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta

Christine Kilpatrick
August 10, 2017
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Rising sea levels, as well as droughts and earthquakes, threaten the levees protecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta, which supplies 25 million Californians with fresh water.


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Airports Assess The Risks to Runways of Rising Seas

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Aileen Cho
August 10, 2017
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After Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, science and news organization Climate Central identified the top 12 U.S. airports vulnerable to storm-surge flooding accelerated by sea-level rise.


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Vital Highway Gradually Rises Above Potential Storm Surge

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Pam Radtke Russell
August 10, 2017
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By 2027, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts the road that keeps 16 % of the nation’s oil and gas production operational will flood so often it will have to be closed more than 30 days a year.


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Native American Band Abandons Eroding Home

August 10, 2017
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In a move that likely will be repeated by dozens of coastal communities over the next century, the Isle de Jean Charles band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians has decided to move from their home of more than 200 years before it erodes away.


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