A Staten Island home that battled back from Hurricane Sandy to “save Christmas” — winning a visit from then-President Obama — ...

Much of Sandy's wrecking power was due to an extreme storm surge that left large swaths of New York and New Jersey underwater. And with sea levels on the rise, flooding will only become more frequent.

The threat will never go away; it will only worsen. By the end of the century a hundred-year storm surge like Sandy’s might occur every decade or less. Using a conservative prediction of a half ...

The agency is also forecasting at least 2 to 4 feet of inundation from Sandy Hook north to Bridgeport, Connecticut, including the New York City metro area. Storm surge is caused by a storm's low ...

Nature-based solutions such as newly constructed sand dunes absorb storm surge rather than deflect ... noted — they also protect Maine’s sandy beaches, which generate $2.6 billion of yearly ...

A Staten Island home that battled back from Hurricane Sandy to “save Christmas ... Joe decorated the tree with whatever survived the storm surge, including paper coffee cups, surgical ...