07/23/2024Tennessee #2 state with most natural disasters, data showsWBBJ: When it comes to extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to the hurricane or earthquake-prone coa…
07/23/2024Floyd County’s Perpetual Flood Crisis: A Federal Rescue CycleDev Discourse: An Atlas by New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge charts 713 FEMA-declared disasters, showing Kentucky's frequ…
07/20/2024Superstorm Sandy group eyes ballots, insurance surcharges and oil fees to fund resiliency projectsWashington Post: A 2% surcharge on property insurance policies, mandatory fees on the oil and gas industries, and holding a public referendu…
07/14/2024Hoboken’s resiliency parks fight flooding but come with a big price tagNJ Spotlight: Hoboken’s four resiliency parks conceal massive underground tanks that can take on about 4 million gallons of rainwater. Amy C…
07/09/2024Heat Wave Torturing the U.S. Will Get Worse in Some StatesThe Daily Beast: The heat dome blighting huge swaths of the country isn’t going away yet, as the weekend shapes up to be another brutal scor…
06/22/2024Much of U.S. Bakes as Some Cities Break Temperature RecordsNew York Times: There’s a reason heat waves feel hotter in New York City: Concrete. And here in the city, we have a lot of it. Our building…
06/17/2024How ruinous floods put Vermont at the forefront of the climate battleWashington Post: Nearly a year after catastrophic flooding struck Vermont, the city of Barre confronts the overwhelming task of steelin…
06/14/2024New Jersey’s largest resiliency park can hold up to 2 million gallons of stormwater6sqft: The new park is part of the State and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded Rebuild by Design project, which combat…
05/30/2024Flooding Home SalesThe City: In 2023, 7,344 one- to three-family homes sold across New York City — over $3.6 billion in sales — occurred in places that face l…
05/23/2024Letter to the Editor: Climate Change PreparednessManchester Journal: In Vermont, according to the research organization, Rebuild by Design, “fourteen counties were hit hard by a historic fl…
05/22/2024Here’s an up close look of Staten Island’s $114M Living Breakwaters projectStaten Island Advance — The Living Breakwaters are in the final stretch of its $114 million project — and kayakers recently got to find out …
05/21/2024Sen. Becca White and Rep. Gabrielle Stebbins: Cost-saving, pollution-reducing, resilience-creating progress on climateVTdigger: It’s just past the halfway point for the 2024 legislative session, and we are grateful to fellow lawmakers who have rolled up thei…
05/21/2024Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuel projectsGrist: The nation’s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disaste…
05/20/2024Who will pay for climate disasters?The Adirondack Almanack: A suite of environmental bills passed in the state Senate recently to mark last month’s Earth Day. One measure, del…
04/30/2024Our Understanding of Floods is ALL WrongPBS: Flooding is getting worse, and not just from hurricanes or rising tides, but from increased heavy rainfall. In this episode, we dive in…
04/29/2024Città resilienti, ecco il piano per New YorkIngenio: L’anno dopo infatti nasce Rebuild by Design, un’organizzazione con il compito di far cooperare istituzioni locali e federali, unive…