10/27/2021GOVERNORS ISLAND CLIMATE RESEARCH HUB HOPEFULS INCLUDE EX-BLOOMBERG DEPUTY MAYORThe City: Governors Island is awash in ideas for a new climate research hub on the New York Harbor haven — including from influential f…
10/25/2021U.S. CITIES ARE NOT READY FOR CLIMATE DISASTERSDame Magazine: Water demands a place to flow. In New York City, a place deemed a “concrete jungle,” however, rivers, wetlands, oceans,…
10/14/2021GROUND UNBROKEN, EAST RIVER PARK PROJECT SHOWS CITY’S STEEP RESILIENCY LEARNING CURVENY1: East River Park is still here. Earlier this year, the city told residents to expect construction to start in the spr…
10/07/2021NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS: ONE REMEDY FOR TWO ILLSGreenBiz: First, the bad news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned that the world is already lock…
10/04/2021QUESTIONS, CONCERNS LOOM IN WAKE OF NYC MAYOR DE BLASIO’S BLUEPRINTSi Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida moved into New York City, homes and cars were flooded under unprecedented rainfall that …
10/04/2021DDC AND NYC PARKS DEPARTMENT SHOWCASES EAST RIVER PARK RESILIENCY CONSTRUCTIONAMNY: The Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the Parks Department recently took amNewYork Metro on a tour of the East Rive…
09/28/2021SCAPE’S KATE ORFF UNCOVERS NATURE IN DISGUISECultured: Until recently, it might have been fair to say that much of Kate Orff’s work was about revealing natural systems hidden in ur…
09/20/2021IDA FORCES CITY TO CONFRONT A LONG TO-DO LIST TO PREPARE FOR EXTREME CLIMATENY1: The City Council has a “crown jewel” piece of legislation it is ready to pass to help the city adapt urban infrastructure to the n…
09/20/2021HOW CAN NEW YORK CITY PREPARE FOR THE NEXT IDA? HERE’S A TO-DO LISTNew York Times: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept into New York this month, the storm’s ferocity shocked the city. Even with met…
09/18/2021IDA FLOODED THEIR HOMES. NOW, RESIDENTS OF THIS DEVASTATED S.I. BLOCK WONDER, WHAT COMES NEXT?SI Advance: The rain fell viscously, bringing a torrent of water and debris to the bottom of Caswell Avenue in Graniteville. Cars were subme…
09/10/2021EXHIBIT EXPLORES HOW RISING SEA LEVELS THREATEN NYC & BEYONDGothamist: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the region, it brought devastating flooding and caused the deaths of a…
09/04/2021IDA-DELUGED NYC DRAINAGE SYSTEM ALL BUT FORGOTTEN IN CLIMATE BATTLEThe City: The unprecedented rainfall that remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped Wednesday night made New York City’s climate vulnerabilities…
09/04/2021‘GOD’S WORK’: INSIDE THE BOOMING WORLD OF DISASTER RESPONSENBC News: J. Lee Driskell was already on the road from her home in Brooksville, Florida, to Louisiana in her camper — the “Hurric…
09/03/2021KEEPING NYC’S HEAD ABOVE WATER: LESSONS FROM THE DELUGENY Daily News: Waking up to Thursday morning’s scenes of flooding and destruction was a shock to everyone, — including me, and I’ve spe…
09/01/2021ADAMS’ CLIMATE CHANGE PLANS ARE LARGELY UNKNOWNPOLITICO: New York City’s next mayor will face a growing emergency in the fight against climate change. The effects of global warming are…
08/09/2021OSTRICHE CONTRO URAGANIIl Post: Tra il 25 e il 31 ottobre del 2012 un grande uragano, chiamato Sandy, colpì New York: circa 90mila edifici e le stazioni …