Naples City Council unanimously voted Thursday to send a letter to Collier commissioners in “strong opposition” of a multi-billion-dollar federal project meant to protect the county’s shores from storm risks.

As the latest strong storm that passed through the U.S. Gulf of Mexico showed, hurricanes are testing the resilience of offshore oil and gas facilities and pipelines.

HOUMA, La. — New Orleans lifted a nightly curfew Wednesday as the city moved closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the city were still without lights and water and more than a quarter of a million children were unable to return to schools.

Insured losses from Hurricane Ida are now creeping into the $30 billion range after catastrophe modelers added damage to properties in the Northeast, putting the catastrophe on par with Hurricane Irma and Harvey in 2017 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

After months of fish kills and sometimes smelly beaches, red tide conditions that affected waters around Anna Maria Island and Manatee County have receded — for now.

Save Coastal Wildlife is receiving reports of many dead fish found on the beach from South Amboy eastward to Port Monmouth in Middletown.

Hurricane forecasters are keeping an eye on a system that could become Tropical Storm Mindy. This follows the ongoing cleanup from Hurricane Ida that killed two people in Alabama and did widespread damage in Louisiana. Disaster managers in Alabama are looking at lessons learned from Ida as they prepare for what the current hurricane may have in store.

Insured flood and wind losses from Hurricane Ida are estimated at between $14 billion and $21 billion, according to CoreLogic Inc.

Researchers from UT Austin lead new project expanding AI and Machine Learning techniques for extreme weather prediction

US offshore oil and natural gas production continues to return to service while the pace of power restoration in Louisiana is also rising daily, eight days after Hurricane Ida hit the region.

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard captain-of-the-port, New Orleans, Capt. Will Watson, has opened the Lower Mississippi River to all vessel traffic in New Orleans and key ports throughout Southeast Louisianna Friday following Hurricane Ida.

A once-brushed-over provision of the project is now now putting the Sand Key Beach Renourishment Project in doubt.

The Panhandle didn’t get the brunt of Hurricane Ida’s rains and winds, but Walton got some of her effects following powerful storms.

ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES - Albert Naquin had been dreading the drive to see what Hurricane Ida did to his people's longtime home

“That’s not normal. That’s an ‘oh shit’ thing.”

Clean-up crews and the US Coast Guard are trying to locate the source of an oil spill spotted in the Gulf of Mexico after deadly Hurricane Ida.

Ida touched down on August 29 as a Category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, south of New Orleans, with winds of 150 miles an hour.

After Hurricane Ida, Native Americans confront loss of homes, income, sacred sites

SpaceX’s starship jumped over southern Texas last March, with tangerine flames and white smoke erupting behind it, making it look very normal. However, about 6 minutes after the test flight, the spacecraft returned to Earth.

While climate change did not create damaging weather and wildfires, it has demonstrably made them more extreme and punishing. There is a credible foreboding among many Floridians as we continue through the 2021 hurricane season.

SARASOTA, Fla. - If you don't feel it in the air, signs on Manasota Beach warn of red tide.

Coastal authority weighs repairs in advance of seeking federal money

The island’s beach renourishment project kicked off this week with the placement of the first sand.

As Hurricane Ida headed into the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists was closely watching a giant, slowly swirling pool of warm water directly ahead in its path.

Bill Merrell knew something needed to be done to protect the Texas coastline from the moment he looked down from a building on Galveston Island and saw the raging waters below. It was September 2008, and Hurricane Ike had pushed in a storm surge as high as 20 feet on nearby Bolivar Peninsula. Its force wiped out communities, with bodies found in the debris.