“Even though sea-level rise and storm surge are related, they are separate, distinct phenomena, and it’s important to address them with separate engineering and technology responses,” says ...

“Moving forward, our goal is to make these umbrellas part of a smart, sustainable community.” Storm surge has accounted for about half of the deaths in hurricanes since 1970, the National ...

The plan would create 2.2 miles of storm surge barriers, 50.6 miles of shoreline based measures, 11.8 miles of flooding-mitigation features and 18.7 miles of risk reduction features, according to ...

A storm-surge barrier similar to those in Louisiana and parts of… Will storm barriers arrive in time to stop the next flood? | Crain's New York Business Skip to main content ...

Possible sites for storm surge barriers to protect New York City. The four concepts were presented at an American Society of Civil Engineers conference in 2009. Updated Nov. 21, 3:10 P.M ...

Heavy storm surge from Helene made the streets of downtown Tampa resemble the open ocean – except at the base of Tampa General Hospital, which employed a special fence to keep the water out.

The killer storm that pummeled the East Monday and left the nation's largest city with a crippled transit system, widespread power outages and severe flooding has resurfaced the debate about how ...

The design, based on a similar project in Russia, was presented at a conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which was meeting in Brooklyn, N.Y., ...