Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast
Up and down the Atlantic Coast, the land is steadily sinking, or subsiding. That’s destabilizing levees, roads, and airports, just as sea levels are rising. ..
Up and down the Atlantic Coast, the land is steadily sinking, or subsiding. That’s destabilizing levees, roads, and airports, just as sea levels are rising. ..
During the Cold War, the US built a network of tunnels in the Greenland ice sheet. Sixty years later, the base has provided a critical clue about the climate ..
Coastal lands are subsiding and losing elevation—a “hidden vulnerability” that’s making rising seas all the worse. ..
A spacecraft called SWOT will image most of the planet every 21 days to track flooding, drought, and many other water woes. ..
The DeFelice Marine Center sits on a strip of land that dangles into a bay. Staff is living, working, and adapting to the climate crisis in real time. ..
A cache of phytoplankton at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping researchers reconstruct historical coastlines. ..
A long history of constraining the river through levees has led to massive land loss in its delta. Can people engineer a way out? ..
A chilling new report predicts a foot of sea level rise in the US by 2050. But quirks of physics mean everyone will suffer in different ways. ..
In an economically developing country reliant on tourism, the rapidly eroding “smiling coast” shows the urgent need for action on climate change. ..
Sea level rise will soon combine with a host of other environmental factors to produce dozens of floods each fall in US coastal cities. ..