Residents of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, are installing gates and walls to protect residents from exploding crime rates, according to a report.

Ten years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled New York City, sea walls, storm surge barriers, and moveable sea gates may be coming to flood-prone parts of Brooklyn and Queens, the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Future Manhattan flood gates on display on Lower East Side 02:10. With the push of a button, New York City officials say they'll soon be able to deploy flip-up flood gates that are being placed ...

A section of the centuries-old city walls in York will remain closed for a further month while redevelopment work continues. The stretch between Station Rise and Micklegate Bar was due to re-open ...