Hurricane Lee has rapidly intensified into a category 4 storm over the Central Atlantic with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph, the NWS National Hurricane

(Reuters) - Private market insured losses are expected to be between $3 billion and $5 billion due to Hurricane Idalia which struck the Big Bend region of Florida last week, the catastrophe risk modeling business of Moody's said in a report on Monday.

Sea turtle protectors along the Lowcountry’s coastline are finding Tropical Storm Idalia left some beaches better off than others.

Florida is the only state in the US that has “extensive” coral reef formations near its coasts that are home to barrier reefs and patch reefs. Unfortunately, due to the surge in ocean temperatures, the rich population of reefs and corals has bleached and disappeared at an alarming rate.

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. — The 6,000-acre North River Wetlands Preserve in Carteret County near the coast of North Carolina is one of the largest wetland restoration projects in the country.

Health insurance. Dental insurance. Accidental death and dismemberment. Why not homeowners insurance as an employee benefit?

The town's beaches will continue to accumulate sand in the coming years and remain in good condition, according to an annual report presented last week by a coastal engineering consultant.

The expansion of the container handling capacity at the Port of Savannah, Georgia continues with the arrival of the second batch of massive container cranes which are part of the Georgia Ports Authority’s $1.9 billion infrastructure improvement plan.

The Charleston Fire Department responds with a high-water rescue vehicle in Charleston. It’s these minor, more frequent flooding events — and not necessarily direct hits from hurricanes — that could make Charleston unsustainable in the future if the city doesn’t act. Grace Beahm Alford

A planning application to replace a storm-damaged 360-foot seawall on Seven Mile Beach has prompted a call for a new government policy to protect Cayman’s coastline and reefs.

Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s residual but still-largest property insurer, has posted new information about when and where flood insurance is required for policyholders.

Florida will not be going the way of Atlantis any time soon, at least by human time scales. But sea levels are rising, and the state is sinking, and at some point that's going to cause problems for our 8,346 miles of shoreline. More than it already is, that is.

After nearly 20 years of fighting to get the necessary permits, Bill Roe has succeeded in building a seawall on his oceanfront property in New Smyrna Beach.

Wahoo Bay, a new marine park in northern Broward County, offers University of Miami researchers the first test case of an innovative way to combine natural and human-made solutions to improve coastal resilience.

The sand is flowing from the bottom of the ocean to the shoreline along a 3-mile stretch of Ponte Vedra Beach as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins an emergency renourishment project.

A brand new set of protections for Miami-Dade’s storm-prone coast — and billions of federal dollars to pay for it — is once again on the table after the county agreed to move forward with a new coastal protection study with the Army Corps of Engineers.

The price tag to counter sea level rise grew to $310 million this past week as engineers presented a complex set of options aimed at keeping storm waters off streets and out of people’s homes. The project would be the biggest public works initiative in Key Biscayne’s history.

Florida property owners stuck with higher premiums and new flood insurance mandates may want to nudge their local governments to take a look at the town of Cutler Bay and the counties of Monroe, Pinellas and Ocala.

Barrier islands like Key Biscayne — vulnerable to sea level rise and tropical storms — are in the eye of the property insurance crisis, with owners seeing huge premium hikes and policy cancelations.

Tokitae, also known as Lolita or Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, the last surviving southern resident killer whale in captivity, died in Florida on Friday afternoon, the Miami Seaquarium said.

Increase of costly storms driving up insurance premiums

Florida’s hurricane restoration program threatens the future of its beaches.

A potential consequence of a weakening Florida Current could be higher sea levels and more sunny day flooding.

Ilaria Cacopardo and Dr. Guillermo Valenzuela raised their three children in their Harbor Drive three-story house. But now they wonder if they can stay on the island after their property insurance premium went up $34,000 in the last year.

In some areas, like the Indian River Lagoon, "well over half" of the seagrass had died off over the last 50 years.