Extreme Weather Toolkit: Coastal Flooding

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Rising Seas Stretch Risk Zones

As seas rise, land once safely above the tideline is slipping below annual flood risk levels, exposing residents to escalating threats.

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Rising Seas, Flooding Coasts

As the planet warms and sea levels rise, high tide flooding is putting people at risk more often.

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Climate Change and Children's Health: Flooding

Storms and flooding events fueled by climate change bring increased health and safety risks for children.

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Children Exposed to Major Coastal Floods in the U.S.

Children are especially vulnerable to health impacts from floods — and around 400,000 kids in the contiguous U.S. currently live in areas at risk from a major coastal flood in 2030.

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New U.S. Coastal Risk Map and Analysis Featuring Flood Projections, Impacts, and Solutions

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Coastal Wetlands at Risk

On World Oceans Day, a new Climate Central study explores how wetlands—and the benefits they provide to coastal communities, economies, and ecosystems—can, or cannot, adapt to rising sea levels.

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Coastal Wetlands at Risk

On World Oceans Day, a new Climate Central study explores how wetlands—and the benefits they provide to coastal communities, economies, and ecosystems—can, or cannot, adapt to rising sea levels.

Climate Matters

Climate change impacts seniors living near the coast

A new Climate Central report examines how climate change threatens America’s aging coastal population—with rising sea levels and increasing hurricane intensity, posing risks to seniors’ safety, health and financial security.

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Report: Coastal Flood Risk to Affordable Housing Projected to Triple by 2050

A new analysis conducted by scientists at Climate Central and published in Environmental Research Letters highlights the equity implications of sea level rise in the first nationwide assessment of risk to the country’s affordable housing supply.