Olympia staff recommend not pursuing FEMA accreditation for flood areas. Accreditation benefits only 16 properties but brings long-term maintenance costs. City plans future-focused flood adaptation ...

By showing where salt marshes may migrate, local officials can better guide development and reduce flood risk.

I see the next ten years as a stress test for coastal civilization: enough time for sea level rise to become impossible to ignore, but not enough for slow political systems to fully catch up. The ...

Sausalito is ahead of other California coastal cities in drafting a sea level rise plan. But controversy has ensued.

New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 if the current level of global carbon emissions continue, but seas could rise by as much as 4.5 feet if ice-sheet melt ...

Since Hampton Roads was settled, it has fought a tug-of-war with its surrounding waters. Nowhere is this more evident than at Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base. Naval Station ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A May 2005 NASA image of the ocean break-off point of the Helheim Glacier in southeast Greenland, one of two major ice-sheets that ...