Japanese authorities, wanting to better protect communities in future, chose to build bigger defenses. Concrete walls that span 400km and reach nearly 15 meters high in places now line the coast to ...

Researchers are testing Xiriton, a biobased concrete alternative made from grass and seawater, to see if it can help rebuild ...

Raging storms brought major damage to California’s coastline last winter. They washed out West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, smashed the Capitola Wharf, burst levees on the Pajaro River in Watsonville, ...

LEAD DESIGN FIRM, CIVIL ENGINEER: CHA Consulting, Inc. GENERAL CONTRACTOR: C.D. Perry & Sons Inc. The rehabilitation of Troy’s 95-year-old seawall enhances the resiliency of the city’s waterfront ...

In the back of a million-dollar mansion under construction in Miami Beach, contractors are installing what may be the future first line of coastal defense from erosion and climate-driven sea-rise.

When looking at photos of downtown Corpus Christi pre-1940s, the most striking feature is the shoreline. The buildings end at Water Street — because that's where the water started. The iconic steps ...

(This column is combined from two columns that ran in the Caller-Times on June 4 and June 11, 2014. It will be the final reprint of columns by Murphy Givens.) Powerful storms in 1916 and 1919 wrecked ...

As climate change causes sea levels to rise, cities and towns across the Bay Area are planning for its inevitable impacts. But in Half Moon Bay, the effort of one group of homeowners to protect their ...

A lawsuit that had beachfront property owners feeling hopeful about relying on seawalls to protect their homes is leaning the other way — upholding limits on coastal armor. The fight between ...

NORTH WILDWOOD — On Sept. 20 City Council voted to award a $34,600 contract to Bud Concrete of Sewell to build a concrete cap to the city’s old seawall that runs along John F. Kennedy Drive. The new ...

As sea levels rise and the East Coast slowly sinks, flooding is getting worse in Boston—from sunny-day flooding during high tides to the icy water that surged down streets during the “bomb cyclone” in ...