Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, threatening its subways and the electrical ...

The famous Will Durant quote refers to earthquakes, but it can work for storms as well: “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” As Hurricane Sandy neared ...

The storm surge Hurricane Irene brought to New York’s coastal community of Breezy Point in 2011 left Gretchen Ferenz Fox's home untouched. But a little over a year later, Sandy was different. This ...

NEW YORK — After Hurricane Sandy devastated New York in 2012, city officials considered some drastic responses to storm surges, like long concrete sea walls and tall earthen berms. But as the seventh ...

In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New Jersey coasts, beaches ravaged by Superstorm Sandy underwent extensive ...

This time they undertook a new storm-surge analysis and included lidar data that the city itself spent $450,000 to gather in 2010. (The effort was partly financed with a grant from the U.S. Department ...

This is the latest GIF of the storm: Mayor Bloomberg says the storm surge at the Battery has gone down considerably. Storm surge peaked at 13.88 ft at the Battery. Now 9.81 ft & going down. Power ...

Several New York City hospitals remain closed a week and a half after Hurricane Sandy hit the area, raising concerns about other hospitals’ surge capacity, according to an NBC News report. NYU Langone ...