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Staten Island Advance: Rising sea levels threaten to displace hundreds of thousands of New York City residents in the coming decades, a new report found, a shift that would cause a fundamental reshaping of the five boroughs and disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations. The analysis, titled “Climate Displacement in New York City: Making space […]

Victoria Advocate:  Climate disasters in Montana The map below displays the number of federally-declared climate disasters that unfolded in Montana from 2011 to 2021. The darker the orange, the more disasters a county experienced. For example, Valley, Musselshell and Rosebud counties all experienced 5 disasters during that time frame, the most in the state. Hover

Spectrum News NY1: As New Yorkers begin to leave coastal areas in the coming decades, spurred by rising sea levels and storm flooding, the consequences could ripple across the city and lead to displacement in low-income neighborhoods in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, a new report suggests. The analysis is one of the first predictions of how

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 Bronx plays a starring role in Mayor Eric Adams’ push to promote the construction of more housing, with a commitment announced Thursday to spur development along four new Metro-North stations set to

The Post-Journal: Between 2011 and 2021, Chautauqua County experienced four weather disasters resulting in the disbursement of more than $2.2 million in federal recovery funds. The most assistance, $818,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Public Assistance program, was received following a spring 2014 flood. That same flood impacted Cattaraugus County on a much wider

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 federal climate disaster. The rate and frequency in the Garden State was even greater during that time frame, and New Jersey has received more per capita federal storm money than nearly

Government Technology: A new report shows that 90 percent of U.S. counties have experienced a climate-related federal disaster declaration and suggests that a paradigm shift from recovery to resilience is critical. Many emergency managers have long since recognized that as the nation continues to respond to disaster after disaster, most of them climate related, it’s

WDIY 88.1: Northampton County has been one of the hardest-hit parts of Pennsylvania when it comes to weather-related disasters. That’s according to a new report. WDIY’s Sarit Laschinsky has more. The assessment, released by the nonprofit Rebuild by Design, found that nine climate disasters were federally declared in Pennsylvania between 2011-2021. Out of that total, both

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 was declared a federal climate disaster. Last year alone saw 20 separate billion-dollar weather catastrophes that resulted in nearly 700 deaths, a new report found. The research, published in Rebuild