New York City’s geography makes it particularly at risk to the impacts of climate change - like rising seas and subsequent flooding. The city has already experienced the effects of increasingly severe weather. In response, the city is building a plan to protect itself, from flood walls, to levees, to redesigning its coast.
Further reading:
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/climate/us-rising-sea-levels.html#:~:text=The%20report%20projects%20that%20sea,are%20cut%20over%20that%20time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyregion/the-119-billion-sea-wall-that-could-defend-new-york-or-not.html
Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/90704383/what-new-york-needs-to-look-like-as-sea-levels-rise
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/protect-community-climate-change-new-york-is-elevating-park-2021-05-21/
NASA
https://icp.giss.nasa.gov/research/ppa/2002/impacts/introduction.html
Salon
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/27/this-is-what-new-york-city-will-look-like-after-climate-change/
NYC.gov
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cdbgdr/about/About%20Hurricane%20Sandy.page#:~:text=Impact%20of%20Hurricane%20Sandy&text=The%20storm%20resulted%20in%20the,New%20Yorkers%20were%20temporarily%20displaced.
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