Miami’s future could be one of enormous concrete seawalls stretching along the coast. Or something a little different — where mangroves become the type of infrastructure that really protects the city.

The type of armoring structure varies widely with the environmental setting, ranging from massive seawalls and revetments along the wave-exposed open coast to smaller bulkheads and humanmade ...

When it comes to protecting coastal communities from the most powerful tropical storms, building seawalls has often seemed like the only viable solution. I mean, how else are you going to stop a to… ...

Seawalls are meant to protect coastal properties, ... up to 50 percent of the biodiversity was gone in front of the seawalls. While the types and functions of the seawalls studied varied, ...

Seawalls have been banned in South Carolina since 1988, but miles of them were built before then. How seawalls protect houses and hotels at the expense of the public beach Skip to main content ...

LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. (WFLA) — For many years, concrete seawalls were the norm, but now more people are turning to vinyl and fiberglass seawalls. The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program started noticing a ...

COLUMBIA, SC Rare sea turtles are being blocked from nesting on South Carolina beaches by a new type of seawall that was touted as a way to protect oceanfront buildings from erosion without ...