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Sea-level rise has eroded beaches all over the Northwest. And some of these places include important archaeological sites.
Nestled where the Cascade Mountains meet the eastern Washington desert, this town surrounds the southern tip of Lake Chelan—a 55-mile long sliver of the bluest water you’ve ever seen. The lake is so ...
Storm surge is the deadliest and most destructive force in tropical cyclones, often responsible for the majority of ...
Residents in coastal areas told researchers, “It floods here all the time,” though weather forecasts often overlooked it.
Flooding in coastal communities is happening far more often than previously thought, according to a new study from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Flooding in coastal communities is happening far more often than previously thought, according to a new study. The study also found major flaws with the widely used approach of using marine water ...
Researchers installed sensors inside stormwater drains and cameras above them in three North Carolina communities. They found a startling amount of flooding.
Fast-rising seas have forced some coastal communities to endure flooding far more frequently than previously thought, and much more often than federal tide gauges would suggest, according to a new ...
A study by researchers at North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill found that coastal flooding is happening more often than expected in North Carolina. That's because the most widely ...