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![Construction workers at the site of a flood defense project on the east side of Manhattan.]()
![Construction workers at the site of a flood defense project on the east side of Manhattan.]()
A decade after Sandy, Manhattan’s flood barrier is finally in sight — sort of
The “Big U” shows how climate adaptation can succeed. It also shows how hard it is.
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How sunken basketball courts could protect New Yorkers from the next Superstorm Sandy
The city wants to use its public housing developments to soak up extreme rain.
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![An aerial image shows various container ships sit in the Mississippi River, to the left is green vegetation and to the right is farm equipment]()
![An aerial image shows various container ships sit in the Mississippi River, to the left is green vegetation and to the right is farm equipment]()
As drought chokes Mississippi River, barges carrying grain shipments have nowhere to go
With no rain forecast until January, farmers are left high and dry.
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
A thirsty megafarm is driving a libertarian enclave in Arizona to embrace a radical solution: government regulation.
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Los escombros de los desastres están empujando los vertederos de Puerto Rico al límite
El compostaje podría ser la solución.
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Disaster debris is pushing Puerto Rico’s landfills to the brink
Composting could be the solution.
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![Collage: paperwork, half circle cutouts of water, an oil pumpjack, and a drawn river on top]()
![Collage: paperwork, half circle cutouts of water, an oil pumpjack, and a drawn river on top]()
How a Utah utility is helping an Estonian oil company hoard Colorado River water
$10 for 3.2 billion gallons of water? A loophole in Utah law could enable the country’s first commercial oil mining operation.
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![two people look up at a brown tree during the drought]()
![two people look up at a brown tree during the drought]()
Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts.
As water resources dwindle, Western communities are investing in new ways to ensure young trees survive.
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![The high water line of Lake Mead near water intakes on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam]()
![The high water line of Lake Mead near water intakes on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam]()
The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought?
Glen Canyon and the Hoover Dam are “not the whole story.”
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![a man in a wet blue shirt gets water poured over his head by a man in a uniform]()
![a man in a wet blue shirt gets water poured over his head by a man in a uniform]()
Report: Extreme heat will hit urban poor the hardest, worsening inequality
The good news is that prevention is possible.
