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 ...

Although Sandy’s worst wind and waves narrowly missed Delaware one year ago Tuesday, public and private losses still rose into the tens of millions. And many state residents are adjusting to the new ...

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 ...

Harvard geologist Daniel P. Schrag cites “Hurricane” Sandy’s 13-foot storm surge in 2012 as a preview of what will, by mid-century, be the “new norm on the Eastern seaboard.” Ah ...

Maine's 3,500-mile shoreline is being reshaped by rising seas and storm surge. Sea levels are rising ... and the state's 35 miles of sandy beaches. The state only allows a rebuilt seawall to ...