Florida barrier islands host 765,000+ residents as development raises hurricane, erosion and insurance risks while taxpayers fund repeated beach restorations.

A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as ...

How do intermittent events like hurricanes impact natural selection? How do animals adapt to challenging weather? A ...

Amtrak and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials say the East River tunnel rehabilitation project is on schedule ...

Fresh Juice Couple, selling liquid blood-orange, lemonade, pomegranate. Then Chris the Mussel Man, in crocheted hat hung with ...

An elderly public housing tenant died on Christmas Day after falling and cracking his skull in a Bronx elevator that had been serviced by NYCHA repairmen just the day before.

The climate movement is at a crossroads. The youth climate strikes have dissipated, a climate change denialist is back in the ...

A recent Transportation Department audit of Hurricane Sandy relief funds found $95 million in questionable costs and $2.9 billion in unspent money.

Hurricane Melissa was already one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean—and now scientists have confirmed a new way it neared superlative status. Newly released data show ...

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...