A recent U.S. Geological Survey study projects that rising sea levels and stronger, more intense storms will exacerbate four ...

Investing in natural infrastructure by restoring coral reefs in Florida and Puerto Rico can save millions of dollars by ...

The USGS began creating flood and storm tracker maps to forecast ... which are already invasive in the coastal plains and have demonstrated major food web impacts, USGS notes.

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has announced the required update to the 2019-2020 New Hampshire ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed a modeling system to quantify the ... Researchers then determined how many people and how much property and economic ...

And as a group of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey ... rise building constructed at coastal, river, or lakefront settings could contribute to future flood risk, and that mitigation ...

The United States is grappling with significant water challenges, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which reveals that nearly 30 million Americans live in areas with ...

Stakeholders with an interest in this process should review and monitor the New Hampshire Coastal Flood Risk Summary website ... the federal government (e.g. USGS and NOAA), and the private ...

CORA's denser data resolution between tide gauges closes gaps in data coverage along the coast, ensuring more communities will have access to historical water level data to assess coastal flood risk.

In addition to USGS and UC Santa Cruz ... However, reef restoration can significantly reduce the size of the flood zone behind these coastal properties, where more vulnerable people are more ...