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.
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The South’s aging water infrastructure is getting pounded by climate change – fixing it is also a struggle
Water crises can be caused by either too much or too little water, challenging infrastructure in unexpected ways.
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.
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 ...
Fight brewing over how high to keep Lake Okeechobee
By Jenny Staletovich, WLRN Media As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gathers public input on how to operate Lake ...
COVID-19 shows that we must trust in science to solve problems; science is telling us we need to address the climate crisis now
By Delaney Reynolds, The Sink or Swim Project Today, more than ever, science and scientists are the key to our ...
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