Property

Large-scale, climate change-related relocation of people from the coast and flood-prone areas is inevitable, according to a panel of experts. Politicians must make tough decisions on when people have to abandon their homes, and how to compensate them.

Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States. And they can be devastating: Just an inch or two of water damage can cause more than $25,000 in repairs and lost property. Flood insurance is unique because most policies are sold and backed by the federal government. (Homeowners insurance generally doesn’t cover flood damage.)

A new fund to help Maui homeowners manage coastal erosion and address climate change has been approved by the Maui County Council.

The U.S. must ramp up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades as climate change worsens disasters and threatens water supplies and public health across the country, according to a major draft report released by the federal government on Monday.“

The 1,200 inhabitants of the island of Gardi Sugdub are relocating to mainland Panama in 2023 as their land is being overtaken by the rising Caribbean Sea.

RODANTHE — Nothing good can be said about septic tanks leaking their foul contents onto a public beach. It sounds even worse that it’s within a national seashore on the Outer Banks renowned for its beautiful, clean beaches.

Standing at the garden edge of a clifftop home on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, I am warned to step back. The cliff, like many on the UK’s coast, is eroding and in danger of collapse. The home belongs to 72-year-old Malcolm Newell. He warns me the ground beneath my feet could give way at any moment. He is not exaggerating.

The National Flood Insurance Program is not a private business; it was established under the Federal Emergency Management Agency when commercial insurers would no longer write flood policies.

QUINCY (WGEM) - Falling water levels on the Mississippi River are a source of concern for waterfront communities including some here in the Tri-States.

Southwest Florida has already answered the immediate question after Hurricane Ian slammed into the coast, killing dozens of people and destroying thousands of homes with record-high storm surge: Will we rebuild?

The devastation of Hurricane Ian reminds us that the opportunity for property subrogation success is often disguised as an Act of God.

Florida is in the midst of a swirling storm with a property insurance market that has been described as in free fall.

The U.S. Supreme Court said it won’t hear a case over access to Lake Michigan’s shoreline.

Images from the aftermath of Hurricane Ian sent shockwaves across the world.

Flooding from a storm event so severe that it occurs only once every 100 years would cause far greater damage to life and property in the Los Angeles Basin than federal emergency officials have forecast, according to UC Irvine researchers who warn also that Black and low-income communities would be hardest hit by the disaster.

Cynthia Rosenzweig is a senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School, and heads the Climate Impacts Group at the affiliated NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The unlucky residents who rely on the state's insurer of last resort pay the most for property insurance coverage in the state.

In the build-up to November’s COP27 in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Germany is spearheading an agenda set to dominate the UN’s annual climate change conference.

For the average homeowner, few activities sound more tedious than spending an afternoon reviewing insurance policies.

The insurance sector, dubbed the Achilles heel of the fossil fuel industry, is in crisis due to the increasing frequency of climate-fuelled extreme weather events – something energy giants may no longer be able to ignore

By current CoreLogic estimates, the recent landfall of Hurricane Ian caused anywhere between $41 to $70 billion in damage, marking the sixth consecutive year a slow-moving tropical system destroyed part of the country.

We are in the early stages of sifting through the debris of Hurricane Ian and calculating the financial and human toll it took after coming ashore in Southwest Florida with 150 mph winds and 20 inches of rain.

The city wants to use its public housing developments to soak up extreme rain.

Attorney General John M. Formella announces that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has agreed to pay New Hampshire $3,477,195.30 to settle a nearly decade-long dispute over lost property tax revenue caused by flood control infrastructure located in New Hampshire.

Don Riepe lives within a short walk of the A Train, the quickest way to get to Harlem, according to Duke Ellington's famous song.