by admin | Mar 5, 2018 | News
As the Charleston peninsula grew over the centuries, developers filled in marshes and creek beds to build neighborhoods and roads. Not surprisingly, those places now flood after heavy rain and sometimes on sunny days as well. The same thing happened much more recently...
by admin | Mar 3, 2018 | News
Please Don’t Flush the Toilet. It’s Raining. By WINNIE HUMARCH 2, 2018 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Willis Elkins, a program manager for the Newtown Creek Alliance, at the creek in Queens. Every year billions of gallons of waste water are discharged...
by admin | Mar 1, 2018 | News
top story Another man-made flooding fiasco in the making on Johns Island By Abigail Darlington adarlington@postandcourier.com Feb 28, 2018 Updated 14 hrs ago Contractors clear land and build roads for a new subdivision on Johns Island’s River Road. Brad...
by admin | Feb 27, 2018 | News
Climate What Land Will Be Underwater in 20 Years? Figuring It Out Could Be Lucrative By Brad Plumer Feb. 23, 201Image The Battery area of Charleston, S.C., after Hurricane Matthew in October 2016. Companies are seeking better climate forecasts to assess the risks of...
by admin | Feb 24, 2018 | News
JEAN LAFITTE, La. — From a Cessna flying 4,000 feet above Louisiana’s coast, what strikes you first is how much is already lost. Northward from the Gulf, slivers of barrier island give way to the open water of Barataria Bay as it billows toward an inevitable merger...
