10/29/202513 years after Sandy, city reshapes its waterfrontCrains New York: Staten Island was among the hardest-hit areas of the city during the 2012 storm, causing $16 worth of damage and lost econo…
10/29/2025Vermont’s lost FEMA fundingVermont Daily Chronicle: “With a population of 648,000 people, Vermont has historically relied on federal dollars for disaster response fund…
10/28/2025FEMA Funding at Risk for Vermont’s Rural Communities After Trump Denies Disaster Declaration RequestDaily Yonder: Between 2011-2024, rural counties in Vermont had among the greatest occurrences of federally-declared extreme weather disaster…
10/14/2025After All That, the New East River Park Is…Fucking AwesomeHellgate NYC: As the park nears the finish line of a five-year-long, $1.45 billion climate resiliency makeover designed to protect the coast…
09/28/202510 Cities in New Jersey That Handle Extreme Weather the BestNews Break: Hoboken, sitting on the Hudson River’s edge, has long faced challenges from flooding, especially during heavy rains and hurrican…
09/12/2025Storm WarningHighlands Current: In the wake of Sandy, the state held a competition called Rebuild by Design that is now an initiative based at New York U…
09/08/2025N.J. poll finds 77% of voters worried about extreme weather damageNJ: The poll, which was conducted in partnership with Rebuild by Design and the Environmental Defense Fund, shows broad support across party…
09/08/2025FDU Poll Finds 3 in 4 NJ Voters Worried About Damage from Extreme WeatherFDU: With devastating floods becoming more common in New Jersey, three-quarters of voters (77 percent) now say that they are concerned about…
09/02/2025“The knowledge we have built from storm to storm is the true legacy of Hurricane Katrina”Dezeen: The US Housing and Urban Development launched Rebuild by Design, under the America Competes Act, calling for international, interdis…
08/23/2025Can a 3.5-Acre, $296 Million Park Save Lower Manhattan?NY Times: The superstorm prompted a novel initiative by the Obama administration to jump-start projects in and around New York that would fo…
08/17/2025How architects are redefining disaster relief through designWallpaper: Government responses to disasters have also resulted in architecture focused on future mitigation. In June 2013, just 8 months af…
08/11/2025Moving on From the Heartbreak HotelInside Climate News: The forecast already has proof of being true, as Vermont is now one of the top 10 states in declaring federal disasters…
08/11/2025Experts issue warning over alarming trend in home insurance industry: ‘I don’t want to sugarcoat it’The Cool Down: Elsewhere, policymakers and researchers are working on long-term solutions, such as updating building codes, restoring wetlan…
08/06/2025The Subway Rat can help keep us dryNY Daily News: What if Pizza Rat told New Yorkers to check their subway route for possible closures before or during heavy rains. Mr. Met co…
08/05/2025An engineer’s guide to the future of flood defenseInteresting Engineering: The $60M federal grant (Rebuild by Design) plus state funds yielded a ~$107–111M project (in 2020 dollars). Civil c…
07/29/2025Flood risk is growing in NJ. Where are our governor candidates on climate? | OpinionNorth Jersey: According to Rebuild by Design's Atlas of Disaster: New Jersey, the state has experienced 14 federally declared major disaster…