As Virginia, Maryland and Delaware face more floods, their elected officials want to use federal dollars to deploy natural ...

Living shorelines are a nature-based method of stabilizing shorelines using natural materials like oysters, plants, sand or rock. These types of installations provide a suite of beneficial ...

Living shorelines replace hard infrastructure like seawalls with natural elements such as marsh grasses, mangroves, oyster reefs and rock to reduce erosion and absorb wave energy. A project in St.

At first, a revamp of Miami’s picturesque Morningside Park seemed like a perfect chance to try a promising strategy to protect Miami’s coastline from looming sea level rise. Dubbed a “living shoreline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plan to build a distinctive environmental feature designed to prevent erosion along a strip of Palm Beach's Intracoastal ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (WNCT) – For centuries, large bulkheads have been used to help control erosion along coastlines. More recent research suggests that a more natural approach may be a better ...

Sebastian Inlet District is helping install artificial reefs and mangroves this July to restore shoreline at Sebastian Inlet ...

Recent climate change reports have many concerned about rising sea levels and thinking about ways to protect the vulnerable coastline. One environmentally friendly approach is beginning to gain ...

Americans who live along coastlines are watching their land disappear and property threatened as climate change causes sea levels to rise. While homeowners often rely on expensive seawalls and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Along the U.S. East Coast, communities are grappling with the dual destructive forces of rising sea levels and stronger storms pushed by climate ...

Florida’s low elevations, especially along the coast, make the state especially vulnerable to flooding. This fact, coupled with the historic extensive filling of bays and waterways to create ...

We often joke that it’s hard to find a hill in Florida, but our low-lying lands leave us especially vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. Our beautiful shorelines and diverse ecosystems ...