How these artificial reefs in New York City may offer protection from future storms While the “Living Breakwaters” can’t stop flooding, they will reduce daily erosion and damage from future storms. (This pioneering project is now mostly completed.) https://www.fastcompany.com/91218265/artificial-reefs-new-york-city-may-offer-protection-future-storms #climatechange #climatecrisis #sealevelrise #harbor #NewYork

You might think that cruise ships had stopped visiting Boston by Halloween week, but no. Here's Le Champlain, rather petite for a bluewater cruise ship at 430 feet long, fueling up this morning on the Reserve Channel. This afternoon, she headed out for Martinique. #boston #harbor #cruiseship

A City of Murals, Decades in the Making For 40 years, Mural Arts Philadelphia has been nurturing art and artists who have left their marks on walls and buildings throughout the city.

A City of Murals, Decades in the Making (Published 2024)

For 40 years, Mural Arts Philadelphia has been nurturing art and artists who have left their marks on walls and buildings throughout the city.

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The real reason billion-dollar disasters like Hurricane Helene are growing more common "Over time, migration to hazard-prone areas has increased, putting more people and property in harm’s way. Disasters are more expensive because there is more to destroy." https://wapo.st/3YiJgaz (shared, we hope) #climatechange #climatecrisis #hurricane #Helene

Flood Defenses Can Enhance the Public Realm To protect against future flooding, storm surges, and sea level rise, landscape architects are developing an innovative mix of green and grey solutions along the southern coast of Manhattan. These are not nature-based solutions but forms of armor. And designers are showing how this armature can be woven into the public realm, creating new kinds of infrastructure.

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Flood Defenses Can Enhance the Public Realm

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Maryland Students’ Wooden Boats Launched at North Pole to Study Climate Change An international program called Float Your Boat sends the students' toy boats to the Arctic Ocean, where the boats are taken by icebreaker and placed on sea ice alongside one of the International Arctic Buoy Programme's floating GPS beacons. As the sea ice and the beacons drift, students can track the path of their individual boats.

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MD Students’ Wooden Boats Launched at North Pole to Study Climate Change | Chesapeake Bay Magazine

Most of us who love boating or grew up along the Bay can remember making little wooden model boats at one time or another. Simple, prefabricated de...

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Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection As climate change accelerates sea-level rise and intensifies storms, marsh-fronted seawalls can provide an economical coastal defense, MIT engineers report.

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Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

Protecting and enhancing salt marshes in front of protective seawalls can significantly help protect some coastlines, at a cost that makes this app...

“You don’t need a huge marsh to get a good effect. It could be a relatively short marsh, just tens of meters wide, that can give you benefit.” #sealevelrise #climatechange #climatecrisis

The East Boston and Chelsea Creek waterfronts look their best on a sunny-day king tide. But you can see how a foot or two of storm surge could get worrisome at the Shaw's supermarket and the Umana Academy--and would not be so great for the surprisingly low Chelsea Street bridge. #sealevelrise #hurricane #climatecrisis #climatechange #Boston

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades "If this trajectory of sea level rise continues over the next three decades, sea levels will increase by an additional 169 mm globally." https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01761-5 #sealevelrise #climatechange #climatecrisis @npub13r6a...7ugf

AI project allows for ‘chat’ with British Museum objects ‘The Living Museum’ project offers an AI-powered interactive exploration of 1.2 million objects from the Museum’s collection records.

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AI project allows for ‘chat’ with British Museum objects

(A striking example of how museums can employ generative AI to make their collections more accessible.) #museum @Global Museum @npub12agm...ykg6