When a Subway Stop Becomes a Geyser
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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The images of water pouring into subways and banks, cars submerged on Avenue A, escalators that needed to be ridden with scuba equipment, brought to mind an apocalypse of a specific kind, another lost city—Atlantis. Was this what New York could become?
A Powerless New York During Hurricane Sandy -- New York Magazine - Nymag
In 1920, New Orleans boasted six pumping stations, including the Melpomene. These allowed “the old swamps” to be drained and converted into new communities, like Lakeview and Gentilly. Today there are twenty-four stations, which together operate one hundred and twenty pumps. During a storm, rain is funneled into a Venice’s-worth of canals. Then
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After Valencia, nobody can say they did not know
We used to think the kind of damage wrought by recent flooding in the west of Spain was beyond imagination. Very soon, it could become the norm
Dominic Hinde9th November 2024
Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a
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