Mortgage lenders are shifting climate risks onto taxpayers, study finds
CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE / NY TIMES - Banks are attempting to shield themselves from climate change at taxpayers’ expense, by shifting riskier mortgages [go to article]
Climate change brings mosquito whack-a-mole to New Jersey
DANA BATE / WHYY / STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA - From 800 feet in the air, the salt marsh along the Delaware Bay in Cape May County looks a little like a patchwork quilt [go to article]
Blame climate change – and maybe rats – if this Jersey shorebird goes extinct
SEBASTIAN ECHEVERRI / PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER - For one of New Jersey’s most extraordinary birds, climate change means much more than stronger storms [go to article]
Could massive storm surge barriers end the Hudson River’s revival?
ELIZABETH ROYTE / YALE ENVIRONMENT 360 - On a sunny afternoon, John Lipscomb steered the 22-foot vessel Ian Fletcher past the rip-rapped, industrialized shoreline [go to article]
Pulitzer Prize winner’s new book focuses on southern Ocean County
RICK MELLERUP / THESANDPAPER.NET - OMG, what almost happened back in 1969! The Shapiro brothers, Herb and Jerry, are legendary figures [go to article]
Can we turn down the temperature on urban heat islands?
JIM MORRISON / YALE ENVIRONMENT 360 - The volunteers fanned out across cities from Boston to Honolulu this summer, with inexpensive thermal monitors [go to article]
The world is in a water crisis and climate change is making it worse
JOSE PABLO ORTIZ PARTIDA / UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS - The World Resources Institute (WRI) updated its Global Water Risk Atlas revealing [go to article]
Target climate change policies toward low-income communities, N.J. advised
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - If states ignore the disproportionate burdens global warming imposes on disadvantaged communities, they are unlikely to achieve [go to article]
Retreating from rising seas isn’t a win or a defeat – it’s reality
KATE YODER / GRIST - Indonesia just found itself a new capital. The country’s president, Joko Widodo, announced on Monday that the new seat of government [go to article]
Curbs on methane, potent greenhouse gas, to be relaxed in U.S.
LISA FRIEDMAN and CORAL DAVENPORT / NY TIMES - The Trump administration laid out on Thursday a far-reaching plan to cut back on the regulation of methane [go to article]
