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  1. climate change
    My Doomed Hunt for a House in the RockawaysI was ready to buy a home in a neighborhood I loved. Was I delusional?
    By Laura Thompson
  2. drought watch
    We’re Finally Getting Some Real RainSo is the drought warning over?
    By Clio Chang
  3. this is fine
    The brush fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Friday, November 8.
    Now the Wildfires Are Burning HereThat smell in the air is from brush fires in Prospect Park and the Palisades.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  4. environment
    What Am I Supposed to Do During This Drought Watch?Your dry-spell questions, answered.
    By Clio Chang
  5. climate change
    Trying to Get Mom and Dad to Move Out of FloridaThe New Yorkers fighting their retiree parents about leaving hurricane zones behind for good.
    By Will Peischel
  6. celebrity real estate
    The Kushner-Klosses Buy a Precarious Malibu LandmarkIt’s a great house, for however long it stands.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  7. parks and recreation
    Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?The city’s newest park at Pier 42 is leaving kids scorching in the sun.
    By Yessenia Funes
  8. the housing market
    When Your Dream Apartment Keeps FloodingTo move or not to move, that is the question.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. extreme weather
    How Fire Island Was Saved — For NowAfter another winter of brutal storms, the Feds stepped in with a pile of very expensive sand. But it’s just a Band-Aid.
    By Bill Van Parys
  10. climate
    New York After SnowRemembering when we could count on storms to bury trash bags and cars, and offer us a few hours of quiet.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  11. getting around
    Kayaking to School in Broad ChannelOn one block, a night of heavy rains and high tide sometimes means breaking out a boat to get around.
    By Clio Chang
  12. infrastructure watch
    Walling Up the East Side to Save ItWhy the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  13. environment
    Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
    By Curbed Staff
  14. climate change
    What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover?From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
    By Chris Stanton
  15. environment
    It’s AphidsThose bugs swarming the city are native New Yorkers.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  16. canada wildfires
    Talking to an Air-Quality Expert About That HazeShould you go outside? Wear a mask? Let us explain.
    By Alissa Walker
  17. drought
    No Water? No Subdivision.The end of Arizona’s desert sprawl may be near. It’s a good first step.
    By Alissa Walker
  18. wildfires
    California Is Becoming UninsurableState Farm has put a moratorium on new home-insurance customers in the state. It’s a sign of what’s to come.
    By Alissa Walker
  19. getting around
    L.A. Cops Have a Helicopter ProblemThe city’s aerial law-enforcement fleet is more wasteful, and just as pointless, as Kylie Jenner’s and Elon Musk’s private-jet habits.
    By Alissa Walker
  20. leaving no trace
    The Big MOOP at Burning ManA geothermal-energy project has the organization behind the eight-day rave facing off against the Bureau of Land Management.
    By Molly Osberg
  21. getting around
    An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental DisasterWe can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
    By Alissa Walker
  22. urban fauna
    There Are Dolphins in the Bronx RiverMaybe you don’t want to swim there, but the Parks Department says it’s good news.
    By Zach Schiffman
  23. energy
    Get Ready to Be PropanefluencedIt’s more than HGTV hosts. Meet the #vanlife, #cottagecore, and #milkmaid influencers boosting liquefied petroleum gas.
    By Zach Schiffman
  24. public art watch
    Mashed Potatoes Meet MonetClimate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. jackson water crisis
    ‘I Remember This Happening As a Little Girl and We’re Still Dealing With It’Living through Jackson’s perpetual water crisis.
    As told to Alissa Walker
  26. getting around
    We’ve Surrendered the Subway to the FloodThe water is winning.
    By Clio Chang
  27. private jets
    Russian-Oligarch Jet Tracker — Now Featuring Emissions!A Florida teen understands the connection between kleptocracy and climate catastrophe better than most.
    By Alissa Walker
  28. climate change
    New York’s Storm Chasers Don’t Have to Go to Kansas AnymoreA small community of weather enthusiasts has plenty to document close to home.
    By Clara McMichael
  29. flooding
    New York Needs to Become a City That Floods Now and ThenClimate-justice scholar Kian Goh on New York’s challenges nine years after Sandy.
    By Alissa Walker
  30. environment
    The Single Sentence That Could Upend the Environmental Fight in New YorkThe constitutional amendment on the ballot could protect the state’s air and water. Eventually.
    By Caroline Spivack
  31. housing
    There Are 30,000 Basement Apartments the City Doesn’t Know AboutMore than 5,000 are in East New York.
    By Caroline Spivack
  32. hurricane ida
    New York Doesn’t Need Its Own Forecast. It Needs a Forecast Communicator.“It’s very clear that the blatant breakdown of communication is what needs to be adjusted.”
    By Alissa Walker
  33. climate change
    ‘That’s What Hurt the Most: The Things You Can’t Replace’Five East Elmhurst residents on what they lost to Hurricane Ida.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  34. infrastructure
    Climate Change Is Putting More Poop in New York’s WatersA crappy side effect of all this rain.
    By Lauren Vespoli
  35. streets
    We’re Falling Short on Even the Simplest Fix for Storm FloodingPlugged-up drains should be the most straightforward problem to solve, and the city can’t keep up.
    By Diana Budds
  36. hurricane ida
    What Went Wrong With NYC’s Emergency Alerts, and How Can We Do Better?Contextual warnings, explicit directions, and better outreach before the storm could all help.
    By Alissa Walker
  37. climate change
    Scenes from Ida’s Chaotic, Tragic Night in New York CityThe bus driver stuck in raw sewage, a delivery worker who biked through a foot of water, and other stories from the flood.
  38. getting around
    How Does An Elevated Highway in New York City Even Flood?It’s a road that’s above ground. Shouldn’t it drain?
    By Alissa Walker
  39. housing
    Those Flooded Basement Apartments are a Deadly Part of the Housing CrisisThe most dangerous place to be last night was on the ground floor.
    By Kim Velsey
  40. street view
    To Stop Flooding, New York Needs Spongy StreetsThe city does the equivalent of mopping up an overflowing toilet with a rock. We have alternatives, and should use them.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. climate change
    New Orleans’s Levees Held Up This Time — But That’s Not EnoughNo matter how tall you build a wall, a flood can go higher.
    By Jake Bittle
  42. congestion pricing
    What It Will Take for Kathy Hochul to Get New York’s Congestion Pricing RightLooking to other cities for good ideas and potential pitfalls.
    By Alissa Walker
  43. makeovers
    How I Greened My Prewar Co-op Building (It Wasn’t Easy)A climate economist overhauls his own leaky, 200-year-old co-op.
    By Gernot Wagner
  44. parks and recreation
    I Tackled My Climate Anxiety by Becoming a Parks Department Super StewardOne weed at a time.
    By Stephanie Foo
  45. engineering
    Collapsed Surfside Towers Actually Broke Building Code From the Very Beginning“Flawed from day one,” reads the Miami Herald report.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. department of education
    The Green New Deal for Public Schools Goes Way Beyond ClassroomsIncluding fruit trees, solar panels, lead-free pipes, and community-resiliency centers.
    By Diana Budds
  47. climate change
    Subway Flooding Is Here to StayDuring intense rainfall in the city, water can end up just about anywhere.
    By Willy Blackmore
  48. miami building collapse
    Why Did the Surfside Condo Towers Collapse? Here Are All the Theories.The best guesses about what brought down the building.
    By Alissa Walker
  49. maga in miami
    In Sinking Miami, the GOP Tries to Admit It Has a Climate ProblemThe MAGA base remains unconvinced.
    By Bill Kearney
  50. power
    Can Millions of New Ford F-150 Trucks Become a Clean-Energy Storage Grid?When there’s a big battery in every garage, solar power can flow all night.
    By Alissa Walker
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