Coastal cities’ growing hurricane vulnerability is fed by both climate change and unbridled population growth
Several cities along the Gulf Coast have large socially vulnerable populations at high risk from hurricane damage.
Tag: Houston
Houston’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate
Global warming leads to increasing precipitation and more intense downpours, and increased flood potential.
Water scarcity and the climate crisis
A University of Miami report recommends new water-saving measures for urban areas plagued by shortages and drought.
From New York to Jakarta, land in many coastal cities is sinking faster than sea levels are rising
Many coastal cities are facing a factor making them even more vulnerable to rising waters: land subsidence.
The climate crisis is a crime that should be prosecuted
By Mark Hertsgaard, Covering Climate Now  This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of ...
True economic risk of increased Florida flooding is underestimated, exposing need for systemic shift in protecting assets
By Paula Pagniez and Prasad Gunturi, Willis Towers Watson The actual economic impact of climate risk is frightening, and Florida ...
Our leaders need to respond to the climate crisis the way they would respond to a terror attack or pandemic
By Claude Gerstle, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Many serious threats to our welfare are not immediately visible until quantifiable damage occurs ...
The good news: Florida may have a solution to its overpopulation problem; The bad news: Our kids may all move to Atlanta
People in Florida and along the Southeast coast of the U.S. will be among those most likely to be forced ...
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