07/23/2024
WBBJ: When it comes to extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to the hurricane or earthquake-prone coa…
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07/23/2024
Dev Discourse: An Atlas by New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge charts 713 FEMA-declared disasters, showing Kentucky's frequ…
07/20/2024
Washington Post: A 2% surcharge on property insurance policies, mandatory fees on the oil and gas industries, and holding a public referendu…
07/14/2024
NJ Spotlight: Hoboken’s four resiliency parks conceal massive underground tanks that can take on about 4 million gallons of rainwater. Amy C…
07/09/2024
The 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…
06/22/2024
New 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…
06/17/2024
Washington Post:
Nearly a year after catastrophic flooding struck Vermont, the city of Barre confronts the overwhelming task of steelin…
06/14/2024
6sqft: The new park is part of the State and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded Rebuild by Design project, which combat…
05/30/2024
The 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…
05/23/2024
Manchester Journal: In Vermont, according to the research organization, Rebuild by Design, “fourteen counties were hit hard by a historic fl…
05/22/2024
Staten Island Advance — The Living Breakwaters are in the final stretch of its $114 million project — and kayakers recently got to find out …
05/21/2024
VTdigger: It’s just past the halfway point for the 2024 legislative session, and we are grateful to fellow lawmakers who have rolled up thei…
05/21/2024
Grist: The nation’s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disaste…
05/20/2024
The Adirondack Almanack: A suite of environmental bills passed in the state Senate recently to mark last month’s Earth Day. One measure, del…
04/30/2024
PBS: Flooding is getting worse, and not just from hurricanes or rising tides, but from increased heavy rainfall. In this episode, we dive in…
04/29/2024
Ingenio: L’anno dopo infatti nasce Rebuild by Design, un’organizzazione con il compito di far cooperare istituzioni locali e federali, unive…
04/25/2024
Little Green Podcast: Big storms aren’t going anywhere any time soon, so it’s essential to understand how cities like New York are adapting …
04/22/2024
CBS: How well is New York City prepared for the complexities of climate change, like flooding? Since Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, New York …
04/15/2024
Feet in Two Words: When Venezuelan migrant Bibiane Chamorro woke up on September 1st, 2021, at first, she thought she was dreaming.
She had…
04/04/2024
Wild Hope TV: New York City is famous for its towering skyscrapers and vibrant streets teeming with traffic, commerce, and cuisine. Turn bac…
04/04/2024
VT Digger: It’s just past the halfway point for the 2024 legislative session, and we are grateful to fellow lawmakers who have rolled up the…
03/31/2024
The Daily Progress: Thomas Jefferson was many things. A leader, he served as governor of Virginia, secretary of state and president of the U…
03/19/2024
Grist: The nation’s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disaste…
03/07/2024
Hudson County View: The Hoboken City Council unanimously approved (9-0) a $75,000 engineering contract to perform a feasibility study relate…
02/28/2024
S.I. Live – If you’ve noticed some cranes and rock structures in the waters off the Tottenville coast, you’ve been looking at a multi-millio…
01/28/2024
MSN: Being prepared to deal with extreme weather events before they happen is a major part of climate resiliency and one that is becoming in…
01/25/2024
TimeOut: Throughout the past few years in NYC, episodes of heavy rainfall have become more and more common. What's more, the precipitation h…
01/25/2024
Smart Cities Dive:
New York City kicked off a “Rainproof NYC” initiative on Jan. 9 to identify innovative ways the city can address the…
01/16/2024
Scientific American: Check out the article and graphic here.…
12/19/2023
Yale Environment 360: On a recent morning in Asser Levy Playground, on Manhattan’s East Side, a group of retirees traded serves on a handbal…
12/13/2023
The Guardian: Living Breakwaters by Kate Orff at Scape Studio. Read More>>>…
11/20/2023
Yale Environment 360: When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf cours…
11/17/2023
WNYC: Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic, founder of New York Times initiative Headway, which is focused on big global challenges and pa…
11/10/2023
dezeen: The increasing need to protect cities from environmental hazards is a chance to transform communities for the better, says Rebuild B…
11/07/2023
Yale Environment 360: When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf cours…
11/03/2023
New York Times: The city of Hoboken, N.J., once a marshy outcropping that the Lenape inhabited only seasonally, hugs the Hudson River. Three…
10/30/2023
Fox weather: Superstorm Sandy pounded New York and New Jersey 11 years ago but communities are still rebuilding and hardening towns and citi…
10/25/2023
AP: HOBOKEN, N.J. A decade after they were first envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy ’s destruction, two of the largest flood co…
10/23/2023
Documented: Most 311 flood-related calls the day of the storm were coming from areas with high populations of foreign-born residents
On S…
10/20/2023
National Geographic: Flash flooding in New York City. Sinking coasts in Louisiana. To guard against the effects of climate change, these com…
10/18/2023
Scientific American: More than half of the 2.6 million residents in the Miami area will experience “climate gentrification” and pressure to …
10/12/2023
Vital City: New York must do much more to protect itself from torrential rains.
New Yorkers have once again been reminded that climate ch…
09/29/2023
THE CITY: Record rainfall soaked New York on Friday, disrupting public transportation and schools while flooding streets and homes as offici…
09/28/2023
Construction Equipment Guide: Longtime northern New Jersey residents will likely never forget Superstorm Sandy's brutal impact in the fall o…
09/27/2023
NJ Spotlight News: Several flood-prone areas in New Jersey have been earmarked by federal officials to receive additional support to protect…
09/24/2023
NY1: If you ask college students in the Bronx if they’re thinking about how climate change might affect them or their communities in the fut…
09/24/2023
Morristown Minute: State Officials Announce Two Key Projects to Safeguard Hudson River and Meadowlands Communities Against Climate Change-In…
09/24/2023
NorthJersey. com: North Jersey’s flood protection plans took a key step forward this week as the state announced new contracts totaling near…
09/20/2023
Yale Climate Connections: Very few parts of the U.S. have been untouched by extreme weather.
According to a recent report, 90% of U.S. co…
09/18/2023
ABC: America's largest cities are at the forefront of climate change. About 80% of the U.S. population live in urban settings, according to …
09/17/2023
Architectural Record: Living Breakwaters, a 2,400-linear-foot coastal resiliency project conceived to minimize future flooding and erosion r…
09/13/2023
NY Times :The United States has suffered 23 billion-dollar disasters so far in 2023, a record for this point in the year that highlights the…
09/12/2023
SI Advance: The United States has suffered 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters this year, the largest number since reco…
08/13/2023
Shore Link Network: The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has made public a proposed amendment to the Superstorm Sandy Action…
08/04/2023
The Time Argus: A timely report on natural disasters and infrastructure in Vermont shows Washington County saw 11 declared disasters over a …
08/04/2023
24/7 Wall Street: In the last 10 years, 9 out of every 10 counties in the United States have experienced a federally declared climate disast…
08/03/2023
Seven Days: A New York-based nonprofit that helps communities adapt to the climate crisis released a report on Thursday about the impact of …
07/11/2023
New York Times: The lack of a comprehensive national rainfall database and current flood maps hampers the ability to prepare for storms inte…
06/28/2023
Village Voice: In September 2021, New York City experienced historic and catastrophic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Streets t…
06/25/2023
VT Digger: The biggest oil companies in the world made more than $200 billion in profits last year, while Vermonters were forced to pay reco…
05/25/2023
Bloomberg: An ambitious plan to more than double New York City’s investment into making the city a natural sponge for increasingly heavy rai…
05/24/2023
Arch Daily: This Earth Day, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the many benefits of nature-based solutions and recognized the imp…
05/23/2023
Staten Island Advance: The day started in a boat yard in Laurence Harbor, New Jersey. It was the kickoff point for a trip to get a first-han…
05/19/2023
Grainger Today: Nine out of 10 U.S. counties suffered a federally-declared climate disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a recent rep…
05/19/2023
The Center Square: Nine out of 10 U.S. counties suffered a federally-declared climate disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a recent …
05/19/2023
Thew News Times: Nine out of 10 U.S. counties suffered a federally-declared climate disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a recent re…
05/11/2023
SI Advance: A $107 million resiliency plan designed to blunt the power of waves during extreme weather has made steady progress since it bro…
05/03/2023
WAMC Radio: Last week, state Comptroller DiNapoli issued a new report identifying a growing cost facing local governments.
According to t…
04/22/2023
Architectural Digest: Climate change isn’t just about extreme heat and rising sea levels—another side effect of greenhouse gas emissions is …
04/19/2023
ABC: New York City is among the most densely populated coastal communities in the world preparing for an inevitable rise in sea levels, whic…
03/29/2023
WNYC: Running alongside the U.N. Water Conference, New York Water Week brings leaders across fields to share ideas and solutions for water c…
02/21/2023
Bloomberg: Storms, earthquakes, flooding. More extreme weather is putting pressure on aging infrastructure in big cities, where 68% of the w…
02/15/2023
CT Post: State officials are seeking an additional $47 million in federal aid to build and complete Resilient Bridgeport, a significant floo…
02/14/2023
WRGB Albany: A new report is warning state lawmakers that if more isn’t done to address the impacts of climate change, the more it will cost…
02/14/2023
WSHU: A proposed $75 billion “climate change superfund” in New York would help harden Long Island’s infrastructure in the face of storm even…
01/31/2023
The City: Picture this: a concrete wall obscures Christopher Street Pier when looking west over the Hudson River. It’s one element of a six-…
01/18/2023
Spectrum News NY1: Calls are growing for Gov. Kathy Hochul to include policy in her executive budget proposal that would force fossil fuel c…
12/31/2022
Richmond Times-Dispatch: The city of Richmond has more factors that put it at risk for future weather disasters in coming years than any oth…
12/29/2022
Cincinnati Enquirer: You can find the full story here.…
12/16/2022
Staten Island Advance: Rising sea levels threaten to displace hundreds of thousands of New York City residents in the coming decades, a new …
12/10/2022
Victoria Advocate: Climate disasters in Montana
The map below displays the number of federally-declared climate di…
12/08/2022
Spectrum News NY1: As New Yorkers begin to leave coastal areas in the coming decades, spurred by rising sea levels and storm flooding, the c…
12/08/2022
The City: City planners look to create as many as 6,000 new apartments near future Metro-North stations, among 50,000 homes to come.
The …
12/08/2022
The Post-Journal: Between 2011 and 2021, Chautauqua County experienced four weather disasters resulting in the disbursement of more than $2.…
12/07/2022
NJ 101.5: Ninety percent of U.S. counties between 2011 and 2021 experienced at least one weather event so severe that it was declared a fede…
12/02/2022
Government Technology: A new report shows that 90 percent of U.S. counties have experienced a climate-related federal disaster declaration a…
11/29/2022
Bisnow: Earlier this month, roughly 68% of voters in New York voted to approve a ballot measure that will allocate billions of dollars for c…
11/29/2022
West Virginia Public Broadcasting: A new analysis looks at the impact of climate change over the last decade. Despite its size, West Virgini…
11/29/2022
WDIY 88.1: Northampton County has been one of the hardest-hit parts of Pennsylvania when it comes to weather-related disasters. That’s accor…
11/23/2022
Staten Island Advance: Nine in every 10 counties in the United States have experienced a weather event so severe in the past decade that it …
11/23/2022
Yahoo News: The Atlas of Disaster, a collaboration with Rebuild by Design and iParametrics, found that 90 percent of U.S. counties have been…
11/23/2022
Aspen Daily News: It’s a little like the old man who goes to his doctor and reports that he sleeps like a baby and has regular, healthy bowe…
11/23/2022
West Virginia Public Broadcasting: A new analysis looks at the impact of climate change over the last decade. Despite its size, West Virgini…
11/21/2022
AP NEWS: Ninety percent of the counties in the United States suffered a weather disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a report publis…
11/18/2022
Boston Globe: Experts warn the world must urgently phase out fossil fuels to avert climate catastrophe. But ending production doesn’t seem t…
11/18/2022
Arch Daily: “Superstorm Sandy in 2012 was a wake-up call for NYC and made the city realize it needed to better prepare for climate change,” …
11/18/2022
CNA: New York City authorities are building a living reef housing a billion oysters on the south shore of Staten Island.
NEW YORK: A decade …
11/16/2022
Nexus News: More than 93% of people in the U.S. live in a county hit by a severe weather disaster in the last decade, according to the new A…
11/16/2022
New York Times: The rising toll of climate change across the United States has been measured in lives lost, buildings destroyed and dollars…
11/16/2022
CNBC: Ninety percent of counties across the U.S. have experienced a flood, wildfire, hurricane or other federally declared climate disaster …