Climate Solutions How the AquaFence protected Tampa’s hospital during Helene. Tampa’s main hospital sits on an island — and a temporary floodwall protected it from a major storm surge.

Storm surge is a rise in sea level caused by the strong winds and low pressure from a tropical system pushing water toward ...

Storm surge frequencies help inform how and where coastal residents build. Flood protection methods such as elevating buildings or constructing breakaway walls are expensive, making it important ...

The maximum high water mark observation of storm surge was 27.8 feet (8.5 m) at Pass Christian in Mississippi, according to the National Hurricane Center, opens new tab. The hurricane killed as ...

Maine’s 3,500-mile shoreline is being reshaped by rising seas and storm surge. Sea levels are rising faster than ever before , with record-high sea levels measured along the coast in 2023 and 2024.

Officials at Tampa General, which is surrounded by water on three sides, are hoping its temporary flood wall will keep the storm surge at bay, just as it did during Helene two weeks ago.

These six places saw their worst storm surge ever during Helene. Six coastal towns and cities on Florida’s Gulf Coast — which is especially vulnerable to storm-driven flooding — broke storm ...

With catastrophic storm surge expected along Florida's coast when Hurricane Helene slams ashore Thursday, northern Gulf Coast residents Gene and Margaret Taylor understand better than anyone about ...

Storm surge, the massive wall of relentless water that pushes ashore during a hurricane and up into rivers and bays, often causes the most damage and the most deaths.