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Yahoo News: The Atlas of Disaster, a collaboration with Rebuild by Design and iParametrics, found that 90 percent of U.S. counties have been impacted by a federal climate disaster in the past decade. APTIM, in collaboration with Rebuild by Design and iParametrics, has released the Atlas of Disaster, a comprehensive study on the impacts of climate risk across […]

Aspen Daily News: It’s a little like the old man who goes to his doctor and reports that he sleeps like a baby and has regular, healthy bowel movements every morning at 8 o’clock sharp — and the doctor exclaims that this is really good news concerning his health. “But,” the old man holds up a

West Virginia Public Broadcasting: A new analysis looks at the impact of climate change over the last decade. Despite its size, West Virginia ranks high in disaster spending. According to FEMA data, West Virginia had the 6th highest per capita spending on climate disasters in the country over the last decade, totaling $870 million or

Arch Daily: “Superstorm Sandy in 2012 was a wake-up call for NYC and made the city realize it needed to better prepare for climate change,” said Adrian Smith, FASLA, vice president at ASLA and team leader of Staten Island capital projects with NYC Parks. Due to storm surges from Sandy, “several people in Staten Island perished, and millions in property

CNA: New York City authorities are building a living reef housing a billion oysters on the south shore of Staten Island. NEW YORK: A decade after Hurricane Sandy descended on the east coast of the US, pummelling New York City with the worst storm it faced in centuries, the state has turned to innovative solutions

6sqft: A decade ago, an Atlantic hurricane-turned-superstorm named Sandy caught ready-for-anything New York City completely off guard as it raged up the East Coast from the Caribbean to Canada. On October 29, 2012, the city was blindsided by an unanticipated storm surge that flooded streets and subway tunnels and cut power. It took some areas weeks to get

Fast Company: Hurricane Sandy dropped 500 million gallons of water on Hoboken. Here’s how the city is preparing for the next superstorm. I’m standing on a patchwork of herringbone-patterned pavers in the middle of a park. As far as moments go, it’s a pretty uneventful one, but if I were made of raindrops coming down

Gothamist: If Hurricane Sandy were to occur again today, many of the same coastal neighborhoods it destroyed would be inundated again. But a slate of climate infrastructure projects initiated in the aftermath of the storm are now — finally — making progress along the city’s waterfront. Billions of dollars of seawalls, jetties, breakwaters, and reinforced

NY Daily News Opinion: This week, every newspaper and TV news channel is talking about the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and asking the same basic question: Are we any better off today than we were 10 years ago? However, it’s not a simple yes or no answer. The answer is that while New Yorkers are different