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The hospitality industry has entered a new chapter.

Thousands of North Carolina coastal homeowners have learned that their home insurance will not be renewed

Last week marked one year since Hurricane Ian wreaked havoc on Florida, particularly its coastal communities.

In the wake of the damage Hurricane Idalia walloped Florida with, residents in the city of Ocala remain thankful their area remains a relative 'safe haven' through the Sunshine State's stormy weather.

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.

With its densely built coastline and economic and fiscal reliance on development, Florida is an extreme case of how climate change threatens both the built environment and urban land governance. We conducted one of the first statewide assessments of how sea level rise will affect Florida’s municipal revenues.

Auckland Council will decide at a private meeting on Friday how it will buy homes damaged in recent severe storms.

Another picturesque coastal community has imposed a ban on second homes and holiday lets to prevent the area from being swamped with outsiders.

WAKEFIELD, R.I. — Just one week after a federal judge tossed out the first legal challenge to the state’s shoreline access law, a new lawsuit has been filed in Washington County Superior Court.

More than 2,000 policies written in the northeastern part of the state are being non-renewed, including 838 in Dare County, due to weather-related losses.

The Alabama Department of Insurance announces the launch of the Office of Risk and Resilience, an office dedicated to writing the future of mitigating various types of risk and keeping Alabama first in the nation in protecting residents and their property safe from severe weather.

Ireland sleepwalking into a rising sea levels catastrophe without comprehensive planning, Cork East TD David Stanton, says

The Big Three, Plus One: Home builders Lennar, Pulte Homes and D.R. Horton—nicknamed “the Big Three”—continue to dominate in Southwest Florida. But they are running out of land on which to build in Lee County, other than off Corkscrew Road, where thousands of homes are already being planned and built. That means the strategy for the future shifts to Charlotte County, said Darin McMurray, the regional vice president for Lennar.

Hurricane Ian destroyed what used to be. What will tomorrow look like?

CHICAGO — The Winnetka, Illinois, Village Council hosted a study session to consider enacting regulations for bluff and steep slope construction and destruction after residents raised concerns about billionaire Justin Ishbia removing bluffs from his lakefront property.

MIAMI — Florida leads the nation in strict building codes, and the decades of hard work have paid off in the increasing number of homes and buildings that survive each time a hurricane slashes the state.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Commercial citrus growers have dwindled over the past few decades in south Louisiana, where farmers have had to battle hurricanes, flooding, invasive insects, freezes and drought to keep their groves alive.

WELLS, Maine — Members of a local group are asking the town to partner with them in ongoing efforts to increase public access to Moody Beach, particularly in the areas where seaside property owners restrict the uses by others of the intertidal zones.

Climate-fueled disasters like Hurricane Ian are wreaking havoc on home values across the nation, but Florida’s messy insurance market makes it one of the most stressed, new research out of a nonprofit climate modeling group indicates.

State environmental regulators are seeking to further limit coastal development to protect sand dunes from rising sea levels. The new rule would require that planning be based on new dune maps created by the Maine Geological Survey.

People are drawn to watch the powerful waves make landfall in Rehoboth Beach as tropical storm Ophelia hits the Delaware coast early Saturday evening, Sept. 23, 2023.

Now there’s nothing that could stand in the way of a project like one that would have remade Taylor County’s coast

U.S. District Court Judge William Smith ruled that the Rhode Island Association of Coastal Taxpayers (RIACT) “lacked the proper standing to sue” over the recently passed law that protects access to Rhode Island’s coast.

The fight over public beach access vs. the rights of private property owners has been extensively litigated, and repeatedly upheld in NJ.

Homeowners insurance rates from Louisiana's insurer of last resort increased by 63% on average, and National Flood Insurance Program premiums will increase by 234% on average this year, according to a new report.