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  1. infrastructure watch
    Walling Up the East Side to Save ItWhy the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. environment
    Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
    By Curbed Staff
  3. climate change
    What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover?From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
    By Chris Stanton
  4. environment
    It’s AphidsThose bugs swarming the city are native New Yorkers.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  5. canada wildfires
    Talking to an Air-Quality Expert About That HazeShould you go outside? Wear a mask? Let us explain.
    By Alissa Walker
  6. drought
    No Water? No Subdivision.The end of Arizona’s desert sprawl may be near. It’s a good first step.
    By Alissa Walker
  7. wildfires
    California Is Becoming UninsurableState Farm has put a moratorium on new home-insurance customers in the state. It’s a sign of what’s to come.
    By Alissa Walker
  8. getting around
    L.A. Cops Have a Helicopter ProblemThe city’s aerial law-enforcement fleet is more wasteful, and just as pointless, as Kylie Jenner’s and Elon Musk’s private-jet habits.
    By Alissa Walker
  9. leaving no trace
    The Big MOOP at Burning ManA geothermal-energy project has the organization behind the eight-day rave facing off against the Bureau of Land Management.
    By Molly Osberg
  10. getting around
    An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental DisasterWe can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
    By Alissa Walker
  11. urban fauna
    There Are Dolphins in the Bronx RiverMaybe you don’t want to swim there, but the Parks Department says it’s good news.
    By Zach Schiffman
  12. energy
    Get Ready to Be PropanefluencedIt’s more than HGTV hosts. Meet the #vanlife, #cottagecore, and #milkmaid influencers boosting liquefied petroleum gas.
    By Zach Schiffman
  13. public art watch
    Mashed Potatoes Meet MonetClimate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. jackson water crisis
    ‘I Remember This Happening As a Little Girl and We’re Still Dealing With It’Living through Jackson’s perpetual water crisis.
    As told to Alissa Walker
  15. getting around
    We’ve Surrendered the Subway to the FloodThe water is winning.
    By Clio Chang
  16. private jets
    Russian-Oligarch Jet Tracker — Now Featuring Emissions!A Florida teen understands the connection between kleptocracy and climate catastrophe better than most.
    By Alissa Walker
  17. climate change
    New York’s Storm Chasers Don’t Have to Go to Kansas AnymoreA small community of weather enthusiasts has plenty to document close to home.
    By Clara McMichael
  18. flooding
    New York Needs to Become a City That Floods Now and ThenClimate-justice scholar Kian Goh on New York’s challenges nine years after Sandy.
    By Alissa Walker
  19. environment
    The Single Sentence That Could Upend the Environmental Fight in New YorkThe constitutional amendment on the ballot could protect the state’s air and water. Eventually.
    By Caroline Spivack
  20. housing
    There Are 30,000 Basement Apartments the City Doesn’t Know AboutMore than 5,000 are in East New York.
    By Caroline Spivack
  21. hurricane ida
    New York Doesn’t Need Its Own Forecast. It Needs a Forecast Communicator.“It’s very clear that the blatant breakdown of communication is what needs to be adjusted.”
    By Alissa Walker
  22. climate change
    ‘That’s What Hurt the Most: The Things You Can’t Replace’Five East Elmhurst residents on what they lost to Hurricane Ida.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  23. infrastructure
    Climate Change Is Putting More Poop in New York’s WatersA crappy side effect of all this rain.
    By Lauren Vespoli
  24. streets
    We’re Falling Short on Even the Simplest Fix for Storm FloodingPlugged-up drains should be the most straightforward problem to solve, and the city can’t keep up.
    By Diana Budds
  25. hurricane ida
    What Went Wrong With NYC’s Emergency Alerts, and How Can We Do Better?Contextual warnings, explicit directions, and better outreach before the storm could all help.
    By Alissa Walker
  26. climate change
    Scenes from Ida’s Chaotic, Tragic Night in New York CityThe bus driver stuck in raw sewage, a delivery worker who biked through a foot of water, and other stories from the flood.
  27. getting around
    How Does An Elevated Highway in New York City Even Flood?It’s a road that’s above ground. Shouldn’t it drain?
    By Alissa Walker
  28. housing
    Those Flooded Basement Apartments are a Deadly Part of the Housing CrisisThe most dangerous place to be last night was on the ground floor.
    By Kim Velsey
  29. street view
    To Stop Flooding, New York Needs Spongy StreetsThe city does the equivalent of mopping up an overflowing toilet with a rock. We have alternatives, and should use them.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. climate change
    New Orleans’s Levees Held Up This Time — But That’s Not EnoughNo matter how tall you build a wall, a flood can go higher.
    By Jake Bittle
  31. congestion pricing
    What It Will Take for Kathy Hochul to Get New York’s Congestion Pricing RightLooking to other cities for good ideas and potential pitfalls.
    By Alissa Walker
  32. makeovers
    How I Greened My Prewar Co-op Building (It Wasn’t Easy)A climate economist overhauls his own leaky, 200-year-old co-op.
    By Gernot Wagner
  33. parks and recreation
    I Tackled My Climate Anxiety by Becoming a Parks Department Super StewardOne weed at a time.
    By Stephanie Foo
  34. engineering
    Collapsed Surfside Towers Actually Broke Building Code From the Very Beginning“Flawed from day one,” reads the Miami Herald report.
    By Alissa Walker
  35. department of education
    The Green New Deal for Public Schools Goes Way Beyond ClassroomsIncluding fruit trees, solar panels, lead-free pipes, and community-resiliency centers.
    By Diana Budds
  36. climate change
    Subway Flooding Is Here to StayDuring intense rainfall in the city, water can end up just about anywhere.
    By Willy Blackmore
  37. miami building collapse
    Why Did the Surfside Condo Towers Collapse? Here Are All the Theories.The best guesses about what brought down the building.
    By Alissa Walker
  38. maga in miami
    In Sinking Miami, the GOP Tries to Admit It Has a Climate ProblemThe MAGA base remains unconvinced.
    By Bill Kearney
  39. power
    Can Millions of New Ford F-150 Trucks Become a Clean-Energy Storage Grid?When there’s a big battery in every garage, solar power can flow all night.
    By Alissa Walker
  40. climate change
    The Straightforward Way to Make California’s Wildfires Less DeadlyState senator Henry Stern proposes a simple plan: Don’t build houses where they’ll burn.
    By Alissa Walker
  41. our climate
    Is This Concrete’s Breakthrough Moment?New technology could turn it from a climate problem into part of the climate solution.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  42. our climate
    What If New York Stopped Knocking Down Buildings?A vast amount of captured carbon would stay where it is.
    By Justin Davidson
  43. cityscape
    New York’s First Climate Adaptation Battle Is HereThe city wants to bury East River Park to save it.
    By Keith Gessen
  44. developments
    Climate-Change-Related Lawsuit Nixes Huge California DevelopmentNot in my backyard, says Planet Earth, backed by a judge.
    By Alissa Walker
  45. perseverance
    Landing a Rover on Mars Proves We Have the Smarts to Fix EarthIf we can master interplanetary, zero-emission transportation, are high-speed trains and EVs really too hard?
    By Alissa Walker
  46. climate change
    Biden’s Climate Team Is a Bigger Deal for Cities Than Any Cabinet AppointmentA little help for mayors who said they could reduce emissions themselves.
    By Alissa Walker
  47. street view
    ‘You’re Walking Backwards’: The $6 Billion Venice Floodgates May Not Be EnoughProposed decades ago, they were not built for the coming sea rise.
    By Justin Davidson
  48. climate change
    California’s Gas-Car Ban Could Go Nationwide — But Still Doesn’t Go Far EnoughIt’ll take more leverage than even one huge state can apply, and it has to happen much faster than 2035.
    By Alissa Walker
  49. whut
    Trump Keeps Talking About ‘Tiny Windows,’ And No One Knows What He MeansMake fenestration great again?
    By Alissa Walker