The growing battle over how to manage sea level rise turns partly on a legal principle set down in Roman times.

A sea wall at a large 18th-century fortress in the Scottish Highlands is at risk of "catastrophic collapse” due to a sink hole. As reported by the BBC, the sink hole at the historic Fort George on the ...

Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, is sinking at an alarming rate of 12 cm per year, putting the city at risk of being submerged by 2050. In response, the Indonesian government is implementing an ambitious ...

Along San Francisco's Embarcadero, a groundbreaking experiment is revealing promising results. At the aging seawall, during low tide, a diver with the Port of San Francisco carefully removed nine ...

To prepare for sea level rise, scientists installed textured tiles on San Francisco’s seawall to see what material best ...