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…
01/13/2025Environment Federation of American Scientists Unveils Federal Policy Agenda for Tackling Extreme Heat; Supported by 60+ OrganizationsAnnouncement Comes as 2024 is Officially Declared Hottest Year on Record; Lingering Effects of Extreme Heat Fuel Catastrophic Wildfires in C…
01/03/2025‘A place for kids to play and a place to store water’: the stormwater capture zone that is also a playgroundThe Guardian: Caleb Stratton, Hoboken’s chief resilience officer, recalls how city officials asked him to lead the rebuilding and recovery e…
12/16/2024Flood Control as a Social Movement: Coastal Communities Adapt to a Wetter RealityHarvard News: Sandy’s arrival in 2012 accelerated the search for water management solutions that combined gray and green approaches. This hy…
12/02/2024Revitalising New York Harbor: The Billion Oyster ProjectGeographical: The benefits of breeding oysters and better sewage- disposal practices have already changed the course of New York Harbor life…
11/25/2024New York City’s ‘Living Breakwaters’ Brace for Stormier SeasBloomberg: Living Breakwaters, one of seven funded projects to emerge from the competition, addresses more than storm surge. It is designed …
11/05/2024How Flood Defenses Can Enhance the Public RealmArch Daily: Superstorm Sandy inundated Lower Manhattan, causing billions in property and infrastructure damage. To protect against future fl…
10/29/2024Staten Island ‘Breakwaters’ Stand as Monument to Sandy and Speed Bump for Future StormsThe City: Less than a quarter-mile off Staten Island’s southernmost shore, eight rocky structures rise from the ocean and run parallel to th…
10/29/2024Resilient Transit = Congestion PricingNew York Daily News: Twelve years ago today, Superstorm Sandy made landfall and devastated New York City and surrounding communities. After …