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Amsterdam News: Normally, Estefani Nuñez parks the small yellow school bus she drives each day by the side of her home in the Rosedale neighborhood in Queens. On the day before she knows it’s going to rain, she parks her school bus a block away. When it does rain, she puts on her tall black boots to […]

Grist: Hello and welcome to week three of State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter about how disasters are reshaping our politics. I’m Jake Bittle.

Carnegie Endowment: The rising pace and cost of disasters is cause for alarm, both because of the likelihood of major disruption in so many people’s lives, and because of the potential for systemic failures in the housing and insurance markets that could lead to wider, global economic shocks.

Capital Press Room: In light of state lawmakers looking to revive New York’s task force on sea level rise, we examine the threat of rising sea levels and how to mitigate the danger with the help of Amy Chester, managing director at Rebuild by Design.

Crains New York Business: New Yorkers jogging along the East River bike path below 23rd Street are finding something new — a 10-foot concrete seawall. On the other side is Stuyvesant Cove Park, now elevated by 8 feet and featuring seating areas, plantings and views across the river. In the event of a major storm,

SI Advance: Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, destroying homes, impacting livelihoods and claiming lives.

ABC: While California led the nation with 34 disaster declarations, some 36 states had 10 or more, indicating the pain of climate change is widespread in the U.S.

Scripps News: