Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
Fighting rising seas is hardly a new undertaking for the Dutch. Their country has been sinking ever since Roman-era farmers bega ...
ing against the sea and rivers could run as high as $25 billion. “These are enormous figures if you had to spend them all at onc ...
to increase the size of the river floodplains, allowing them to revert to natural forest and marshland. Another 62,000 acres of ...
WINDPOWER The Dutch long ago abandoned their trademark windmills, wooden shoes, and the “milk maid” look in women’s fashions. Cl ...
cost of buying a car. The residents of the windswept island of Aero receive much of their heat and power from the island’s solar ...
With the threat of rising seas, many countries may consider a Delta Project of their own. In fact, Italy has been stumbling towa ...
midst of a large lagoon, Venice’s buildings had to be regularly replaced as they sank into the muck, and under its squares and w ...
project to build seventy-nine enormous hinged gates that can separate Venice and its lagoon from the Adriatic in times of floodi ...
But the “big gates” project has drawn criticism from both envi- ronmentalists and some prominent scientists who warn it will tur ...
gates closed for 100 or 120 days a year, with two-thirds of them in the three-month flood season,” says Ammerman, seated at a te ...
his office wall. “Because one thing is sure: If you let nature rule from this point then in 50 or 60 years there will be no Veni ...
From a sea kayak floating off Pier 40 in lower Manhattan, you get a whole new perspective on New York City. The bustling metropo ...
Conservation sign on the seawall. “The algae there shows the mean high water line,” he says. “It’s been slowly but steadily movi ...
But after the drought, a deluge occurred. Heavy rains soaked the city in late August that year, once again flooding the FDR Driv ...
greater New York area is still experiencing land subsidence triggered by the glacial retreat that occurred more than 10,000 year ...
director of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems, complains that there is little cooperation between city agencies aff ...
of aerial photographs of the Refuge’s Yellow Bar Hassock taken in 1959, 1976, and 1998. “It is drowning,” says Rosenzweig. Consi ...
mental health scientist at Columbia’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health. Kinney points out the well-established connecti ...
stagnant pools of water. According to several prominent scientists, drought is the key factor in spreading West Nile virus. Outb ...
NEWJERSEY’S BEACHES: ON SHIFTINGSANDS On stormy days, the wind at the tip of Fort Hancock, a former military base that is now pa ...
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