Flood Proofing News Today

This summer, record rainfall and flooding are inflicting devastating damage globally. How can we adapt to and prevent flooding as the climate crisis worsens?

A revived stormwater management project on Long Island hopes to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on the hard hit region.

In 1992, Joseph Vietri, then a coastal engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, was walking with a colleague and a coastal...

In 1992, Joseph Vietri, then a coastal engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, was walking with a colleague and a coastal researcher around Westhampton Beach, a barrier island located on the south shore of Long Island, New York.

@conradprabhu - New solutions: Experts stress importance of making Sultanate’s road and civil infrastructure “resilient” to climate-change impactsAs the Omani government sets about taking stock of the significant damage inflicted by Cyclone Shaheen across vast swathes of North and South Al Batinah governorates, there are calls by experts for current...

The flood proofing that we really encouraged over the past 15 years is now complete. the little things we do here in bound brook as far as making sure we have this motto where we want to be carbon neutral by planting more trees and being green, we do as much as we can at the local level, but im sure that not only the united states but the rest of the world is responsible for fixing this problem. >> michael, we heard the mayor talk about hurricane floyd. other officials in new jersey have also co...

In the penthouse. why isnt this a fancy apartment? >> innovation means redesigning one of constructions most popular materials. >> youre actually trying to then grow the cement, right? >> thats right. >> how do you actually do that? >> we take bacteria and we put it in our aggregate and it grows around each grain of aggregate a cement component. it literally is just using the same organisms that are already doing things similar in a marine environment. >> building the homes of the future may mea...