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Houston Chronicle:Yes, Hurricane Harvey hit Houston hard, harder than ever before. The storm showcased all Houston’s vulnerabilities – manmade, natural and human. It was like a magnifying glass, enlarging reality and demanding a novel approach – novel for Houston, maybe, but not completely novel to the world and not so novel to my country, the

Patch.com: Floating cities and wetland buffers designed to tackle the threat of flooding and sea level rise are two ideas that student leaders presented at the first-ever Y-PLAN Youth Challenge Regional Summit in Berkeley. The Summit served as a continuation of a youth-led movement to re-imagine communities in the Bay Area to be stronger and safer

Business Insider: Today, more than five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, the five boroughs are still recovering from the storm. Sandy did $19 billion in damage to NYC, and the rate of development along the city’s coastlines has only increased. New York now has more residents living in high-risk flood zones than any

Port of San Francisco: Islais Creek, spilling out into the Southern Bay by Pier 80, was nominated by the Port and City of San Francisco and selected by the Resilient By Design Initiative, as one of nine Bay Area sites to be “re-imagined” with help from community members and other stakeholders for a future filled with

Business Insider: Like most US coastal regions, the San Francisco Bay Area is under threat from rising seas. To make matters worse, researchers say that parts of the Bay Area are sinking, which could wipe out between 20 and 165 square miles of coastal land, along with the communities that live there. Instead of fighting the