Zillow has removed climate risk scores from its listings nationwide, but Massachusetts homebuyers could get at least one major safeguard from a bill before the state Legislature.
Massachusetts environmental officials are ripping the band-aid off what was once a third rail: calling on the state to establish a voluntary buyout program for homes at risk of being consumed by rising seas.
With several “king tides” in the offing, a foundation is donating $10 million over the next five years to help a local lab expand its work devising defenses.
The Wharf District Council faces its most daunting challenge: coming up with the actual funds to pay for what it says are vital protections for downtown Boston.
The Healey administration is proposing a strategy that also eyes building code changes to protect the Massachusetts coastline from rising seas and intensifying storms.
A project that would keep floodwaters out of Everett’s booming Commercial Triangle development zone and Chelsea’s Mystic Mall could be dead due to Trump administration cuts.
At some point between February and early March, as seasonal wind and rain hammered New England coasts, a relatively new but enthusiastically embraced tool for predicting erosion slipped off the Federal Emergency Management Agency website.
Worsening extreme weather, linked to climate change, is bringing catastrophic flooding to homes that have never seen it before, and it’s putting financial institutions risk of serious losses.
The regulatory biggest changes in decades seek to push projects away from the waterfront and could raise costs for inland housing construction.
Linda Orel comes to the nonprofit with a background in lobbying around climate issues and historic preservation and will lead initiatives in waterfront development and climate resiliency.
Boston’s Wharf District Council released a scenario of how coastal storms could inundate downtown properties as it lobbies for construction of an $877-million flood barrier.
Construction of a flood barrier to protect downtown Boston from sea level rise faces major hurdles in designing an effective defense while avoiding structural damage to Long Wharf and the MBTA Blue Line tunnel, according to preliminary findings by consultants.
With more frequent and intense storms battering Massachusetts’ shores, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection released new draft regulations on Friday to “protect both communities and infrastructure from the impacts of climate change.”
Flooding is driving millions of people to move out of their homes, limiting growth in some prospering communities and accelerating the decline of others, according to a new study that details how climate change and flooding are transforming where Americans live.
Massachusetts has more than 1,500 miles of coastline across 78 communities that count nearly 2.5 million people as residents, and the Healey administration on Tuesday mapped out the skeleton of its strategy for preparing those areas to deal with the impacts of a changing climate.
Hundreds of millions of dollars of property taxes are on the line if sea level rise driven by climate change eats away at coastal home values, the report warns.
Developers behind the 6.5 million-square-foot Dorchester Bay City project are offering to take responsibility for protecting not only its vulnerable waterfront site from flooding, but large sections of surrounding neighborhoods.
Around Boston Harbor, talk about sea level rise and future flooding has moved from hypotheticals to official design guidance. All of this is great progress however very few adaptation projects have been realized.
Designs of an $87 million flood barrier protecting downtown Boston will proceed to the next step after receiving state funding for additional engineering studies.
Once mainstays of the city’s economy, harborside piers now figure prominently in Boston’s attempts to protect against sea level rise. But engineering and financial challenges pose the kinds of barriers that won’t keep the water out.
