LOS ANGELES – A wave of heavy rain has accelerated landslides and contributed to damaging coastal erosion in California, leaving multimillion-dollar homes on the edge of cliffs, falling a hundred feet of palm trees into the surf and forcing the closure of a historic chapel . The state is now drying out, but the effects … Read more
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — After back-to-back storms battered the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy his owner on the coast of Hampton, New Hampshire, were hit by nearly two feet of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and forcing him to evacuate tenants to safer ground. “Put them in hotels … Read more
Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw from a hole. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn’t supposed to occur north of Cape Cod, let alone … Read more