Enter Erosion Mitigation Units, or EMUs, a cutting-edge approach to coastal defence that offers both protection and environmental benefits.
The US manufacturer produced some fine examples of flying boats over the years.
If your home or small business were destroyed in a disaster, would you have the resources to fully rebuild? Very few do. That is why insurance exists. By paying an annual premium, policyholders shift the risk of financial devastation to an insurance company.
The overall price tag of global warming has long been the subject of debate. New data from Bloomberg Intelligence has put a number on the cost of burning fossil fuels.
The hospitality industry has entered a new chapter.
Despite Pope Francis' advocacy for caring for creation, U.S. Catholics are no more likely than other Americans to view climate change as "a serious problem," according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
Sand dunes can protect the coastline from the effects of climate change. But they’re vulnerable to intense storms.
Coastal states with more “high-capacity” local governments tend to win more of the competitive BRIC grants, a Headwaters Economics analysis finds.
As questions loom over the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s ability to fund disaster recovery efforts, people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by recent wildfires and storms are trying to make their way through the difficult process of securing financial aid.
In conjunction with White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities, Administration announces more than $500 million in additional investment for resilience
A little-known climate threat lurks under our feet: rising groundwater that could release toxic chemicals from more than 132,000 contaminated sites in coastal areas of the US. In a first of its kind study, researchers estimated the number of polluted industrial sites and mapped them to areas likely to experience groundwater inundation due to rising seas.
The National Marine Fisheries Service has been monitoring a spike in whale strandings along the entire East Coast
Sometimes simple solutions are better. It all depends on the nature of the problem. For humpback whales, the problem is the rope connecting a crab trap on the seafloor to the buoy on the surface. And for fishermen, it's fishery closures caused by whale entanglements.
The health of American coral reefs has been at the forefront of national news this summer due to the impacts of a record-setting marine heatwave off Florida.
As helpful as nourishment is for tourism and local economies, these projects are controversial. For starters, the process does not stop erosion. “Our present economic approach to development on the barriers is not sustainable over the long term, and nourishment projects don’t help one bit — they just make people feel good for a brief period,” said Stan Riggs.
Inflation Reduction Act will support NOAA’s efforts to accelerate growth in the ocean and coastal technology and information economy
Some $36 billion is needed to address the US’s offshore wind port infrastructure gap over the next decade, according to a new report.
The DOES’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has announced an additional $27 million for projects involving the transport of carbon dioxide (CO2) that has been captured at power generation plants, as well as from the atmosphere.
Although we still have four months left in 2023, NOAA just reported that this year has already been the worst on record for billion-dollar climate disasters, including severe storms, wildfires, tropical cyclones, floods and droughts.
America’s largest provider of dredging services, Houston-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), reports that it has booked recent awards totaling $177 million, taking its dredging backlog to approximately $1.1 billion.
A growing number of homeowners are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes, a problem expected to worsen with impacts of climate disasters, a new report said.
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) awarded nearly $12 million in grants to eight marine highway projects across the nation under the United States Marine Highway Program (USMHP).
One year ago, UCS worked in coalition with many other organizations to help pass the landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a law with historic climate provisions that includes numerous programs, policies, and a $369 billion investment that will drive significant cuts in heat-trapping emissions across our economy.
The bots are coming for your local weather report.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) announced the award of three separate Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple-Award Contracts (MAC) from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).