Should New York build a storm surge barrier?
SARAH FECHT / STATE OF THE PLANET - It’s been seven years since Superstorm Sandy brought the city that never sleeps to a grinding halt [go to article]
Video: There are benefits to addressing climate change beyond reducing greenhouse gases
NJ CLIMATE ADAPTATION ALLIANCE - Climate action sparks technological innovation. Rick Thigpen of PSEG discusses economic and health benefits of fighting climate change [go to video]
Plugging away at climate change with electric vehicles, chargers
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - The state's transportation sector is the state's biggest contributor to greenhouse-gas pollution, but getting more EVs [go to article]
Your dinner might be swimming North thanks to climate change, Rutgers study says
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - Climate change is making oceans warmer and the fish are taking flight [go to article]
NJ faces growing health threat from virus-carrying mosquitoes
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - New Jersey officials are bracing for the start of this year’s mosquito season amid growing signs that a warming climate is creating [go to article]
Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100
JULIET EILPERIN, BRADY DENNIS and CHRIS MOONEY / WASHINGTON POST - Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration [go to article]
Ocean acidification is deadly threat to marine life, finds eight-year study
FIONA HARVEY / THE GUARDIAN - If the outlook for marine life was already looking bleak – torrents of plastic that can suffocate [go to article]
With climate losses rising, central banks push greener finance
REED LANDBERG / BLOOMBERG - With insurers shouldering a record $160 billion in climate-related losses from last year alone, a group including 30 central banks [go to article]
What will it take to get the state to 100% renewable energy?
MARY ALICE WILLIAMS / NJTV NEWS - With the state already starting to weather the effects of climate change — more intense storms, higher temperatures and rising seas [watch video]
For Jersey Shore homeowners, hurricane and flood threats are worth the risk
ELLIE RUSHING / PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER - When Hurricane Sandy’s floodwaters ravaged the first floor of Frank Cattie’s Ocean City, N.J., home, he assessed [go to article]
