Impactscommons.wikimedia.org What New York needs to look like as sea levels rise At 6 feet of sea level rise, 20,000 acres of the city and about 280,000 residents will be underwater. These designers imagined a future city that’s prepared to welcome in flood waters without causing disaster.
Impacts Building infrastructure to stop sea level rise can have an unfortunate consequence Solutions that block water entirely just push the flooding into other areas. A real solution is coasts that can absorb rising waters.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals
