STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the borough in October 2012, it took the lives of 24 Staten Islanders, demolishing homes and businesses, due largely to the storm's surge. While ...

Each year, the Obel Award jury establishes a specific focus area, with this cycle’s being “adaptation.” Per the 2023 jury statement, Living Breakwaters, which takes form as a near-shore necklace of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Against the backdrop of Staten Island’s South Shore, a towering red crane stands tall on a construction barge, moving behemoth stones to the fifth of eight “Living Breakwaters” ...

Landscape studio Scape has won the Obel Award for 2023 for its "visionary" coastal defence system in New York City that will grow in efficiency as oysters inhabit it. Named Living Breakwaters, the ...

NARRAGANSETT – On a recent overcast morning fisherman Mike Marchetti boards his vessel Mister G, a 50-foot lobster boat converted into a scalloper, and gently pulls out of the Port of Galilee’s UU ...

Imagine 10 habitat bird islands off of North Beach to the left of the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay. The islands are filled with trees and chirping native birds. Tourists and locals often take boat ...

FORT WALTON BEACH — As part of a major project slated to be completed in May, Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance members and partners on Thursday began installing the first segment of shore-protecting and ...

This drawing from a late 1990s study shows how segmented offshore breakwaters would look along the eastern side of Dunkirk's waterfront. At upper right is a photo of similar breakwaters at Presque ...

STATEN ISLAND (WABC) -- Even now more than a decade after Superstorm Sandy caused catastrophic flooding in Staten Island, the imprint of the most storm can still be seen everywhere. Lessons were ...

Jefferson Parish will build 17 rock jetties along the northern shore of Grand Isle, completing a project designed to help protect the island from storm surge and reduce coastal erosion. Using a $6.5 ...

The Breakers easement request would be the final step in its Breakwater project. Town staff warned Town Council against making a decision, with Public Works Director Paul Brazil noting that staff ...

Local and state officials celebrated the completion of the $73 million Illinois Beach State Park Shoreline Stabilization Project, which promises to preserve 2.2 miles of shoreline from severe erosion, ...