Engineering

A 100-year old jetty used to protect Ocean Shores. Can new technologies save its south end?

During the Holocene epoch, which began around 11,700 years ago, coastlines globally retreated due to thousands of years of rising sea levels. However, a team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) found this was not true for Singapore's coasts.

Climate change is among ocean-based applications leveraging artificial intelligence.

Mid-Island’s New Creek Bluebelt Will Reduce Stormwater Flooding and Fortify Surrounding Communities Against Extreme Weather Due to Climate Change

Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has said the country needs to recognise the reality that coastal erosion will impact thousands of homes across Ireland.

The Norfolk, Virginia, base can’t just wall itself off.

It’s just not the dynamics of the ocean that needs to be considered when dealing with coastal erosion – the dynamics of a community are equally as important.

Three large local government agencies in South Alabama are getting $3 million to assess the remaining damages and unmet needs from two hurricanes that struck coastal Alabama three years ago.

President Joe Biden is asking that lawmakers grant $310 million in emergency spending to fix the sewage pollution from Mexico that is wreaking havoc on South County communities.

Antarctic ice melt could drive sea level rise to concerning levels in the Bay Area

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Board of Land and Natural Resources is blocking an effort to use sand from an ancient Leeward Oahu beach to replenish the Waikiki shoreline.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Shorelines are beginning to disappear around the world. The University of Hawaiʻi and the Surfrider Foundation have both found some disturbing prospects for Hawaiʻi’s coveted beaches.

Dredging, 'beach nourishment' project set to expand shore 100 ft. into the water.

Global coastal adaptations are ‘incremental in scale’, short-sighted and inadequate to address the root causes of vulnerability to climate change, according to an international team of researchers.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Federal dollars will help move forward a resiliency project meant to protect a South Shore neighborhood, the Advance/SILive.com learned this week.

A Norfolk beach community and city planners are in agreement that East Beach is losing sand more quickly than predictions.

For the first time in California history, all coastal cities, including those in the Bay Area, must plan for sea-level rise, a looming climate impact yet to be fully experienced.

Ocean tides may be rising, but a new tide forecast model created by a team of University of Miami scientists holds the promise of helping coastal communities to prepare.

The California Coastal Commission has approved the repair permit for the seawall protecting homes along a stretch of Oceanside‘s beaches, but the permit comes with conditions.

Town to get $8 million for beach renourishment, $5 million in loans

Louisiana has received an unexpected $8.89 million windfall of leftover claims money from private damage settlements with Halliburton and Transocean subsidiaries stemming from their roles in the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill, the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority says.

In the face of lawsuits and accusations of “secret” arrangements, Pawleys Island Town Council is considering a resolution that details the town’s partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers on beach renourishment projects.

TOMS RIVER - Tropical Storm Ophelia damaged the oceanfront dune system in Ortley Beach, leading to four-foot drops to the beach in some spots, according to a coastal erosion assessment prepared by the state Department of Environmental Protection.

About 30 miles off the coast of eastern North Carolina stands Frying Pan Tower, a local maritime relic that looms over a frying pan-shaped, sandy ridge known as Frying Pan Shoals.

Furious owners of thousands of coastal holiday homes facing relocation after being told flood defences may not be renewed have accused the Environment Agency of penny-pinching.