COP28 will see the conclusion of the Global Stocktake, through which progress under the Paris Agreement is assessed. The world is not on track to meet the agreement’s goal of limiting temperature ...

NEWPORT, Oregon — For years, the city of Newport has been fighting a lawsuit against a woman who said she hurt herself when she was walking to Agate Beach. The legal fight is prompting some Oregon ...

In May 2017, Tyler Buckingham and I began working on a new idea for an ocean and coastal news service and podcast. It was an exciting time of creative energy for us and we spent months developing the ...

Welcome to the era of the smart sea wall!

The island nation of 12,000 people has been advocating for the proposal to more than double the size of its most populated islet during the COP28 United Nations international climate conference ...

Congress created the National Flood Insurance Program in 1968 as a way for the federal government to bear a risk that private companies wouldn’t. Since then, Uncle Sam has backed the vast majority of ...

Citing violations as far back as 1982, the commission will weigh a staff recommendation to fine the Rio Del Mar Beach Island Homeowners Association – and its estimated 27-home membership, most of ...

As global leaders gather at COP28, the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, there are growing calls for a reparative mechanism to compensate the world’s most vulnerable communities, the members of ...

The Louisiana Republican helped craft the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure package. “Last week, Louisiana received a total of $13.7 million in funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs ...

The average annual damages from weather- and climate-related disasters jumped from $18 billion in the 1980s to $81 billion in the 2010s, and the 2020s are easily on pace to shatter that record.

Seagrass meadows play an invaluable role as critical ecosystems that contribute significantly to marine biodiversity, carbon sequestration and coastal protection. In recent years, the importance of ...