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SCAPE’s Living Breakwaters Wins 2023 Obel Award

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Architectural Record: Living Breakwaters, a 2,400-linear-foot coastal resiliency project conceived to minimize future flooding and erosion risk along the Superstorm Sandy–ravaged south shore of Staten Island while enhancing the marine ecosystem of the Lower New York Bay, has been recognized with the 2023 Obel Award. Now in its fifth cycle, the annual international architecture prize—a flagship program of the Copenhagen-based […]

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Record Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters Shows the Limits of America’s Defenses

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NY Times :The United States has suffered 23 billion-dollar disasters so far in 2023, a record for this point in the year that highlights the country’s struggle to adapt to the effects of climate change. The list, compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, includes the fire in Maui that killed at least 115 people, the deadliest

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U.S. record for billion-dollar disasters shattered in 2023, with months still left to go

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SI Advance: The United States has suffered 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters this year, the largest number since records began being kept nearly 45 years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday. Eighteen severe weather events, two flooding instances, the impacts of Hurricane Idalia, Hawaii’s wildfire and a powerful winter

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New Jersey Reallocates $59.4 Million in Superstorm Sandy Relief Funds

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Shore Link Network: The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has made public a proposed amendment to the Superstorm Sandy Action Plan for public comment. This amendment aims to reallocate $59.44 million in Superstorm Sandy Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds towards resiliency projects and Hurricane Ida recovery initiatives. The Deputy Commissioner of DCA,

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Report shows Washington County had most declared disasters from 2011 to 2021

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The Time Argus: A timely report on natural disasters and infrastructure in Vermont shows Washington County saw 11 declared disasters over a 10-year period – the most in the state, not including last month’s flooding. On Thursday, the nonprofit Rebuild by Design released its report titled, “Atlas of Disaster: Vermont.” The organization operates out of

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States With the Most Weather Disasters Over the Last Decade, All 50 States Ranked

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24/7 Wall Street: In the last 10 years, 9 out of every 10 counties in the United States have experienced a federally declared climate disaster, according to a report released late last year. Disasters including hurricanes, wildfires, blizzards, floodings, and other types of extreme weather events struck almost every part of the country. This means

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Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change

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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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