Data from 2013 indicates that some New Yorkers are more vulnerable to the heath risks of heat that others. People aged 65 or older made up a third of the 26 heat-related deaths that year.
‘Transforming the food system has great potential to sequester carbon, expand well-paid, create clean energy jobs and help reverse the public health crises of food insecurity and diet-related diseases.’
The New York Building Congress says there must be comprehensive, regional planning to meet the increased risk of flooding—and imaginative thinking about how to live amid higher waters.
Two community boards have approved the plan, but with conditions, and some neighbors are still stunned the city dropped a plan developed in cooperation with local stakeholders.
There has been some progress toward making New York City as a whole—and the Resilient Neighborhoods in particular—safer. But much remains undone.
A year and a half after it won City Council approval, a Staten Island development project is stalled thanks to an unsuspecting turtle.
New York State legislators on Tuesday passed one of the most ambitious pieces of environmental legislation seen in the United States: a bill that sets the Empire State on a path to net zero greenhouse-gas emissions.
‘Climate change impacts all of us, but not equally. New York needs comprehensive climate legislation that takes into account racial and economic justice.’
Three weeks after New York State rejected a bid to build a natural gas pipeline through its waters, the state of New Jersey did the same on Wednesday.
The mayor’s chief climate czar, Daniel Zarrilli, discussed some of the points of concern that have emerged about the mayor’s plan—and some of the elements that have received little attention.