Atlantic Coast

(Newser) - A 2018 study warned that 64,000 Florida homes were at risk to chronic flooding by 2045 because of rising sea levels. The figure rises to 1 million homes by 2100. Now, new research suggests this effect already is showing up in the state's real estate market, reports NPR...

(Newser) - The Nor'easter threatening the already-battered Atlantic Coast is weakening , but New York and New Jersey are still ordering evacuations ahead of the storm, which is already pelting Washington with ice and stirring seas as high as 7.5 feet off New York. In New York City, parks and beaches...

(Newser) - North Carolina, too? Computer models show the possibility of the oil from the Gulf spill moving up the Atlantic Coast beyond Florida to somewhere around Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by early July, reports Newsweek . If the patterns hold, it would then head east into the open water of the Atlantic.