Florida coast

What was once a sprawling shoreline of sand on New Smyrna Beach is now a watery wasteland with tons of leftover debris courtesy of Hurricane Nicole’s storm surge Thursday morning.

Chases on the Beach, a staple restaurant of New Smyrna Beach, was one of the many businesses to suffer huge damages as Hurricane Nicole made landfall.

Seawalls, despite more natural innovations like “living” shorelines, aren’t going anywhere in Florida — except up.

A University of Miami Rosenstiel study for the first time measured the ability of staghorn coral to reduce wave power.

The Trump administration's promise to exempt Florida from an offshore drilling plan is not a formal action, an Interior Department official said Friday in…