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As East Harlem waits for infrastructure projects to mitigate flood risk, residents are creating their own solutions

Community-led green infrastructure projects highlight the need for an interconnected stormwater management system in low-lying communities.

Politics

New York’s a lot like Venice. It’s sinking.

The city is subsiding between two millimeters and four millimeters a year under the weight of all its buildings, a scientist has found.
Politics

Norfolk postpones storm protection plan vote after pushback from residents

The plan would provide walls and berms in the wealthy part of the city, while low-income neighbors would get grasses and elevated homes.
Politics

Price of Ellicott City flood prevention project balloons to $130 million

The price of a flood prevention project in Ellicott City, Maryland, which saw two major flooding events in 2016 and 2018, has skyrocketed by nearly $50 million.
Politics

Paving wetlands for Ontario housing will increase flood risks

Despite the devastation Hurricane Hazel wrought on Doug Ford’s own neighbourhood, his overhaul of Ontario’s housing policy weakens protections for flood-mitigating wetlands.

Politics

When B.C. floods hit her farm, she found solutions in a river

An unlikely group from northwest B.C. is working together to restore the heavily impacted Upper Bulkley River to protect farmland from floods and bring balance back to a disrupted ecosystem.

Politics

Clock is ticking on burn scar agriculture as waterways remain clogged

A frustrated member of Congress wrote to FEMA, saying the agency agreed months ago that acequias qualified but that aid still hadn't arrived.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

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Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

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Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

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New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

CLIMATE
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Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

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Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs