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Sea Level Rise

Can a Flood-Prone Coastal City Learn to Live With Water?

Instead of billion-dollar floodwalls and surge barriers, Hampton, Virginia, is relying on rain gardens, plant-lined storage basins, restored marshes and 3D-printed concrete reefs seeded with oysters.

By Phred Dvorak

 The shore of Mill Point Park is located blocks from City Hall in Hampton, Va. The city is building a sandy marsh over the rocks that currently line the shore, and experimenting with new types of protective sills to gently buffer incoming waves. Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News
A nor’easter causes large waves to hit a bluff filled with sand to prevent erosion in Nantucket, Mass., on Feb. 13, 2024. Credit: Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Unveils 50-Year Plan to Protect Coastlines from Rising Seas and Extreme Weather

By Ryan Krugman
Luna Angulo, born and raised in Richmond, Calif., stands in front of a site where long-defunct chemical plants dumped toxic wastes, near another hazardous site likely to flood as sea level rises along the city’s shoreline. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites

By Liza Gross
Severe flooding hits Palisades Medical Center in Hudson County, N.J., on Oct. 30. Credit: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images

Sea-Level Rise Accelerates in New Jersey, Raising Coastal Flooding Risk, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

In the Outer Banks, A Growing Number of Homes Are Getting Swallowed by the Sea

By Kiley Price
Kristi Naquin shows wind damaged screens at her home, built as part of the first federally funded relocation project in the United States. Naquin was among the more than 30 residents who used to live along the Louisiana coastline at Isle de Jean Charles, a mostly Indigenous community. Naquin says the 3-year-old homes are substandard. Credit: Jeffrey Basinger/Floodlight

As Millions Face Climate Relocation, the Nation’s First Attempt Sparks Warnings and Regret

By Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon, Floodlight
A digitally rendered image of Terranova’s robot, called the Atlas 3. Credit: Courtesy of Terranova

Can an AI-Guided Robot Help a California City Resist Sea Level Rise and Sequester Carbon?

By Jennifer Ugwa
A wall made of boulders protects portions of Sipayik’s eastern coast from tidal erosion in Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change

By Sydney Cromwell
Workers with the Billion Oyster Project prepare to place oysters in the waters near Brooklyn’s Bush Terminal Park in New York City. Credit: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

A New Jersey Shore Town Has Turned to Oysters to Fight Sea Level Rise and Erosion

By Emilie Lounsberry
A crew works to construc a sea wall to reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion due to sea level rise on March 4 in La Baule, France. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

New Climate Study Highlights Dire Sea Level Warnings

By Bob Berwyn
Dune restoration has stabilized an area separating Hither Creek from the Atlantic Ocean in Madaket, Nantucket. Credit: Jennifer Karberg/Nantucket Conservation Foundation

How Nantucket Is Preparing for Rising Seas

By Nicole Williams
A view of a flood-prone neighborhood in Atlantic City, N.J. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

As Summer Approaches, New Jersey’s Shore Towns Confront an Unrelenting Foe: Sea Level Rise

By Emilie Lounsberry
A slurry mix of sand and seawater is pumped onto the main public beach during a sand replenishment project for eroding shoreline related to sea level rise on Nov. 21, 2024 in San Clemente, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn

By Bob Berwyn
An aerial view of the flood-prone Chelsea Heights neighborhood of Atlantic City, N.J. on Oct. 25, 2022. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

New Study Projects Climate-Driven Flooding for Thousands of New Jersey Homes

By Jon Hurdle
An aerial view of the Kalabogi village in Khulna, Bangladesh during the high tide on March 10, 2023. The village has been facing frequent cyclones and floods since the late 1990s. Credit: Kazi Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

New Study Reinforces Worries About Pulses of Rapid Sea Level Rise

By Bob Berwyn

Rising Seas and Land-Based Salt Pollution Pose Dual Threats for Drinking Water

By Kiley Price
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge crosses the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Credit: Thomas Hengge/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Water Agency Renews Concern That Sea-Level Rise Will Flood Drinking-Water Intakes in Philadelphia, Southern N.J.

By Jon Hurdle
James Hansen, a former NASA climate scientist, led the team of researchers that documented an increasing rate of global warming since 2010. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration

By Bob Berwyn
The Thwaites Glacier and much of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be lost by the 23rd century. Credit: Rob Larter/BAS

‘Grim Outlook’ for Thwaites Glacier

By Bob Berwyn

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