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Two Years After Sandys Surge, New York City Shifts Toward a Softer Relationship with the Sea
2014-10-26 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Just ahead of the two-year anniversary of the calamitous flooding of New York City by the surge from Hurricane Sandy, Alan Feuer has written a fine piece summarizing how this maritime metropolis, facing decades, if not centuries, of inevitable sea-level rise, is slowly evolving a softer relationship with the sea. Heres the nut: In the storms aftermath, there were calls for a single big fix, like sea gates that would close off New York Harbor to swells of rising water. But the solutions being...
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