August 3, 2023 – As Vermonters continue to clean up from the latest flooding, Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit working on climate adaptation infrastructure globally, releases the report “Atlas of Disaster: Vermont” which identifies the impacts of recent climate disasters across Vermont at the county level. The data shows that Vermont had 17 federally declared […]
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New York Times: The lack of a comprehensive national rainfall database and current flood maps hampers the ability to prepare for storms intensified by climate change. This week’s flooding in Vermont, in which heavy rainfall caused destruction even miles from any river, is evidence of an especially dangerous climate threat: Catastrophic flooding can increasingly happen
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Village Voice: In September 2021, New York City experienced historic and catastrophic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Streets turned to rivers, cars flooded and were left abandoned, people drowned in their own basements. This writer dodged waterfalls in the subway before arriving home to find a room slowly filling with water gurgling up through
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VT Digger: The biggest oil companies in the world made more than $200 billion in profits last year, while Vermonters were forced to pay record prices at the pump — and got stuck with the costs of climate change cleanup in our communities. This commentary is by Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public
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Archinet: This Wednesday marked the long-awaited opening of BIG’s planned Stuyvesant Cove Park in Manhattan, marking an end to what was for some a contentious process that drew ire from various community groups on the two-year path towards its eventual completion. Commissioned to be a first-line response to the damage caused to the city during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, the
Grist: Like many coastal cities around the world, New York City is sinking. On a year-to-year basis, the rate of its descent into the Earth is practically imperceptible, but over time those millimeters add up: Today, the city is 9 inches lower than it was in 1950 — a number that has serious implications for
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Bloomberg: An ambitious plan to more than double New York City’s investment into making the city a natural sponge for increasingly heavy rainfall hinges in part on its ability to buy up new plots of land. The state and city announced $2 billion on Tuesday that adds to an existing $1.5 billion fund to expand
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Arch Daily: This Earth Day, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the many benefits of nature-based solutions and recognized the important role of landscape architects in this work. At the University of Miami, she also announced $562 million in funding for coastal resilience projects, supporting 149 projects in 30 states, through the Climate-Ready Coasts Initiative of the National Oceanic
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