"Levee Rebuilding Questioned After Sandy Breach"
"Every time a storm brings flooding to a large metropolitan area, there are calls to improve the levee systems that are designed to prevent flooding."
Source: NPR, 11/05/2012
Planning & Growth
"Sandy Exposes a Coast at Risk"
"Superstorm Sandy delivered only a glancing blow to Delaware, but it brought new focus on man’s attempts to manage nature, to hold back the sea."
Source: Wilmington News Journal, 11/05/2012
"Asia's Mega-Cities Badly Exposed To Superstorms"
"PARIS — The hammer blow dealt to New York by superstorm Sandy should raise the alarm for coastal mega-cities in Asia which are more exposed but less equipped to deal with such threats, experts said on Tuesday."
Source: AFP, 10/31/2012
"As Temps Rise, Cities Combat 'Heat Island' Effect"
"More than 20,000 high-temperature records have been broken so far this year in the United States. And the heat is especially bad in cities, which are heating up about twice as fast as the rest of the planet."
Source: NPR, 09/05/2012
"Year After Irene, New Yorkers Ponder Sea Barriers"
"NEW YORK -- Two years before Hurricane Irene created the prospect of a flooding nightmare in New York City, 100 scientists and engineers met to sketch out a bold defense: massive, moveable barriers to shield the city from a storm-stirred sea."
Source: AP, 08/24/2012
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