Press & News
Boston Globe — The seas are coming for coastal homes. How will communities, and the state, respond?
By Sabrina Shankman — In the age of climate change, as sea levels rise and more intense storms wear away the natural landscape that had protected coastal communities for generations, state and local officials are considering more radical measures, including paying people to abandon their waterfront properties altogether.
WRPI — DEM: Coastal homes, businesses at risk for future storm damage
By Catie McNeill, Paige Messier — While the focus seemed to be on inland flooding over the past few weeks of weather, all eyes are now on Rhode Island’s coast, which experts say may not have enough protection to weather future storms.
Wash Post — North Carolina beach houses have fallen into the ocean. Is there a fix?
By Brady Dennis — New studies show that both beach nourishments and buyouts in Rodanthe, N.C., would be costly. But no funding for any fix is in sight.
USA Today — Another North Carolina home falls into Atlantic Ocean and more are at risk
By Gareth McGrath — Another home in an Outer Banks community has fallen into the Atlantic, making it the fourth home to wash away in Rodanthe in the past 13 months. The oceanfront bungalow collapsed around noon on Monday amid heavy surf conditions.
Wash Post — Retreat in Rodanthe
By Brady Dennis — Along three blocks in a North Carolina beach town, severe erosion is upending life, forcing hard choices and offering a glimpse of the dilemmas other coastal communities will face
Robb Report — Beach Houses Around the Country Are at Risk of Sinking, and Coastal Enclaves Are at War About How to Save Them
By Lucy Alexander — For some homebuyers, the fantasy of coastal living will forever outweigh the risks. But rising sea levels and shifting sands can mean getting closer to the ocean than you might have intended.
INSIDER — Florida's Great Displacement
By Jake Bittle — As many residents will be proud to tell you, the thousand-odd islands that make up the Florida Keys are one of a kind… The Keys are also the first flock of canaries in the coal mine of climate change.
The Atlantic — Every Coastal Home Is Now a Stick of Dynamite
By Jake Bittle — Wealthy homeowners will escape flooding. The middle class can’t.
WJAR — Streets flood as heavy rain, high winds lash Narragansett
By Liz Bateson — Narragansett coped with strong winds, massive waves and significant flooding as a storm moved in early Friday morning.
WJAR — Storm surge floods streets and parking lots in Wickford
By Joanna Bouras — … “We got here and the water in the parking lot for the town was approximately 2 feet deep,” said business owner Peter Chevalier.
Wash Post — Norfolk moves ahead on sea wall project to protect against storms
By Jim Morrison — Without the $1.8 billion initiative, the Army Corps of Engineers says much of the city would be at risk for flooding by 2075. But questions persist about its effectiveness and impact.
Wash Post — He bought the house 9 months ago. Then the ocean swept it away.
By Brady Dennis — Buyers, many from out of state, continue to gobble up oceanfront real estate where three homes have collapsed this year along N.C.’s Outer Banks. Scientists and government officials say climate change is likely to continue to exacerbate erosion.
Substack — The story behind an Outer Banks house that collapsed into the ocean
By Jeremy Markovich — Who owned it? Why didn't anybody move it or tear it down? Why is it there? And who has to clean it up? We've teamed up with the Island Free Press to answer questions big and small about a viral video.
Projo — Collapsed roads, flooded basements, submerged cars: Flood risk growing in New England
By Hadley Barndollar — If a major flood happened tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of homes, commercial buildings, roads and critical infrastructure across New England are at risk of damage, according to a new report by the First Street Foundation. And the dangers are only expected to grow over the next 30 years.
ProPublica — Officials Let Hawaii’s Waterfront Homeowners Damage Public Beaches Again and Again
By Sophie Cocke — Everybody knows that seawalls cause beach loss, and Hawaii law forbids building them. But Honolulu County officials have granted exemptions to 46 homeowners over the past two decades even as a quarter of Oahu’s beaches have disappeared.
Pew — Repeatedly Flooded Properties Will Continue to Cost Taxpayers Billions of Dollars
By Laura Lightbody, Brian Watts — Action needed from Congress to reform outdated policies and reduce flood impacts