Vital Highway Gradually Rises Above Potential Storm Surge

By 2027, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts the road that keeps 16 % of the nation’s oil and gas production operational will flood so often it will have to be closed more than 30 days a year.

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Discovery of Engineering Failure Leads Miami Beach to Flooding Fix

After Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood experienced extreme foot-deep “sunny-day flooding” because of a king tide, city engineer Bruce Mowry and public-works director Eric Carpenter realized the city’s injection-well drainage system didn’t work.

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Airports Assess The Risks to Runways of Rising Seas

After Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, science and news organization Climate Central identified the top 12 U.S. airports vulnerable to storm-surge flooding accelerated by sea-level rise.

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How Engineers Are Preparing for Sea-Level Rise

As sea levels rise—compounding coastal problems such as erosion, storm surge and tidal flooding—engineers are changing the way they work, using adaptive design and new technologies to prepare for an uncertain future

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Kuwait MPs may oppose GCC VAT bill

A number of members of Kuwait?s parliament have said they will oppose the government?s decision to introduce a GCC-backed value added tax (VAT)
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