03/18/2025New York City: The Big UGreen Builder Media: Rebuild by Design coupled innovation and global expertise with community insight to develop solutions to the most compl…
03/12/2025The Power IssueUrban Omnibus: The stories we share below, reported from the imaginations of climate adaptation expert Amy Chester, CUNY professor and activ…
02/26/2025There were never any climate havens: floods in the midwest, hurricanes in AppalachiaThe Guardian: Back in 2014, Alaska, the Pacific north-west and the midwest were identified in the New York Times as “places that will fare m…
02/24/2025Governor Beshear responds to possible loss of FEMAWKYT: In this map created by Rebuild by Design, a non-profit at New York University, you can see a high concentration of incidents in easter…
02/23/2025Latest Lower Manhattan resiliency project to guard against climate change nearing completionAMNY: The South Battery Park City Resiliency Project (SBPCRP) in Lower Manhattan is completing its final touches just in time for the summer…
02/21/2025Trump wants to cut more disaster recovery funding. Nearly every Congressional district has recently needed the moneyFast Company: It’s a move that threatens the entire country—and some Republican-led districts more so. Every single state has had at least o…
02/15/2025Blowing up FEMA could be its own disasterNewsday: The broader picture: New York had the second-highest disaster assistance by state at $1,326 per capita, behind Louisiana, according…
02/11/2025Can Donald Trump abolish FEMA?Newsweek: States led by Republican governors or represented by two Republican senators tend to experience more disasters and receive slightl…
02/10/2025Gov. DeSantis supports President Trump’s pledge to overhaul how FEMA operatesFox 13 News: A map produced by "Rebuild by Design," a non-profit at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge, shows that 93% of U.S. counties ha…
02/10/2025Why eliminating FEMA would be a disaster for LINewsday: President Donald Trump wants to revamp the Federal Emergency Management Agency or possibly get rid of it as he recently suggested.…
02/03/2025Who gets more disaster aid? Republican states. Experts explain that and more about FEMAAssociated Press: Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere. About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency Manag…
01/28/2025In Vermont, a Push to Prevent Flooding or Get Out of the WayYale e360: Vermont’s Washington County, which contains Plainfield and Montpelier, the state capital, ranked third in the nation in total dis…
01/28/2025In Vermont, a Push to Prevent Flooding or Get Out of the WayYale 360: An increase in extreme precipitation events has hit the tiny, mountainous state of Vermont especially hard. As disaster declaratio…
01/15/2025Mapping the United States of DisasterLandscape Architecture Magazine: Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county…
01/15/2025Mapping the United States of DisasterLandscape Architecture Magazine: Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county…
01/13/2025Federation of American Scientists Unveils Federal Policy Agenda for Tackling Extreme Heat; Supported by 60+ OrganizationsFAS: The Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a non-partisan, nonprofit science think tank dedicated to developing evidence-based polici…