The Hudson River, seen here flowing into New York Harbor, is tidally influenced as far up as Troy, some 150 miles north of the Bronx. The Hudson River is the second most endangered river in the United ...

They had spent a semester studying sea level rise and storm surge. Now they were standing on 1.8 miles of barrier that reduces risk for nearly one million people—built in under four years.

Some include structural measures, such as storm surge barriers or floodwalls, and nature-based solutions, like wetlands enhancement opportunities and living shorelines.

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., ...

NEW YORK — Geophysicist Klaus Jacob has been warning about how vulnerable New York City is to violent weather for years and, more importantly in his view, how climate change and rising sea levels will ...

Currently, the team is considering several options. Some include structural measures, such as storm surge barriers or floodwalls, and nature-based solutions, like wetlands enhancement ...