In Montevideo, Uruguay, the nearly 14-mile waterside promenade La Rambla serves as an outdoor living room for locals. Itβs also a perfect antidote to visitorsβ winter blues.
The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.
As climate change intensifies, flooding is emerging as a threat for homes not previously seen as high-risk. Some residents are responding creatively by lifting up their homes.
Experts said they were βblindβ to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge.