Articles for tag: Coastal Erosion, Coastline Changes, Extreme Weather, Hurricanes, Resilience & Adaptation

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Could Hurricanes Permanently Alter America’s Coastline?

Suhail Ahmed

Each hurricane season sweeps in with the same uneasy question: what will still be there when the skies clear? Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, storms do more than scatter debris and flood streets; they redraw the edges of the continent, sometimes in ways that last far beyond a news cycle. Scientists now treat hurricanes ...