Houston Catastrophe: Prediction Becomes Fact
Just a month before Hurricane Harvey – now a tropical storm — devastated the Houston/Galveston coastal region, moving on to Louisiana– the Union of Concerned Scientists issued When Rising Seas Hit […]
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Hell and High Water Predicted Houston Disaster
A Peabody-award-winning report, Hell and High Water, on how Texas, and the Houston area in particular, might suffer catastrophic hurricane damage in a future storm, was made public in March […]
Climate Change: An Inconvenient Sequel
A sequel to An Inconvenient Truth – the 2006 documentary produced by former VP Al Gore and seen by a worldwide audience – premieres July 28 worldwide as An Inconvenient […]
Florence Reborn: 50th Anniversary after the Flood
It’s been 50 years since the Arno River’s banks overflowed, bringing a raging torrent of water, mud, abandoned vehicles, and dead animals rushing through the narrow streets of Florence’s […]
Friday Roundup Apr 1: No foolin’!
Friday Roundup April 1: Our stories — how cities and islands may disappear by the end of the century, making water from fog, a 65-year-old “mother” osprey, salmon spawn for […]
Shigeru Ban: Architect-Humanitarian
The talented, globe-trotting architect Shigeru Ban has created a unique design practice: dwellings of elegance and simplicity for the wealthy and ingenious public buildings (the beautiful Pompidou Centre-Metz France (2011) […]
National Climate Assessment: Read/Download !
If there is one statement to remember from the just-released National Climate Assessment, it is this: “Evidence of climate change appears in every region [of the US] and impacts are […]
Hurricane Sandy Recovery: New York’s Parks & Gardens
What did Hurricane Sandy do to New York’s iconic parks and gardens? Keep in mind that New Yorkers crave these places as public “living rooms” where they can run, skate, […]
Hurricane Sandy Recovery: Parks, Gardens, Museums
Just one year ago, Hurricane Sandy’s rampage through New Jersey and New York left behind a trail of damage in some of the city’s most treasured cultural and natural assets: Central […]
Hurricane Sandy’s Aftermath: Ellis Island & Museum Reopen
October 28: There’s good news at New York’s Ellis Island and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which reopens today – one year after the island was completely submerged by the […]
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