Sea level rise threatens coastal communities throughout the United States, and South Florida is on the front line. The iconic and built-up city of Miami Beach, Florida, has a well-developed, high-value property market, and the municipality has been lauded for proactively taking action to ...
"Indeed it has changed by about 3mm per year," said Robert Molleda, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Miami office. Data they collect measures the sea level rise. "Again it doesn't seem like a lot but if you extended that out over 50-100 years we're talking almost a...
With sea levels on the rise, prevailing thought suggests such investment should not occur in South Florida. However, the City of Miami could very well be the best place for tall new building construction within this region. Aside from the advantages of building upon an already established city ...
Coral Gables is not alone, as many cities in southern Florida face similar economic, banking and taxation risks as sea levels rise -- a trend that many climate change experts say is irreversible. Only technology, major infrastructure upgrades and building codes with sea level rise in mind can ...
Sea Level Rise is a serious issue, especially here in South Florida. Residents in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and the Keys are already beginning to see the negative impact of climate change through occasional “sunny day” flooding and salt water intrusion at high tides. This problem is ...
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We used two metrics to predict the impact of sea level rise on Florida’s islands—how many islands we predict will disappear underwater completely, and how much of the total land area on islands we predict will be submerged. First, we used NOAA’s raster of sea level rise along the coa...
"Sea level rise has kind of transformed some of the communities in southeast Florida, and really all along the coast of Florida," she said. "Particularly in areas where there's poor infrastructure and poor drainage of our sewer systems," she said. ...
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And Professor Ben Kirtman,of the University of Miami,says the long-term projections look much worse. "By 2100, when sea level rise has been a full foot, I would say that 10 to 15 million people in Florida would have to be relocated," he said. ...