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Hurricane Sandy

September 2023

  • man cycles past construction equipment on the beach

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Property over people? New York City’s $52bn plan to save itself from the sea

    A decade after Hurricane Sandy, critics of a federal plan that allocates billions to protect the region from rising waters are calling it a ‘failure of imagination’

March 2022

  • Billion Oyster Project workers place oysters in the water from a pier at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City in August 2020.

    Can oysters save New York City from the next big storm?

    A new project aims to shore up the disappearing coastline of New York City’s Staten Island, while reviving a once famously thriving oyster population

April 2021

  • Kimberly White Smalls sits on her front stairs with her grandson Donovan E. Smalls, 9, on Beach 43rd Street in the Edgemere neighborhood of Far Rockaway, Queens on April 6, 2021. Smalls grew up in the neighborhood and had to flee her family home when Hurricane Sandy hit.

    America's dirty divide
    She survived Hurricane Sandy. Then climate gentrification hit

    Kimberly White Smalls needed her coastal home rebuilt, but like other Black residents of New York’s Far Rockaway neighborhood, she was moved instead

February 2021

  • Ted Cruz speaks on Capitol Hill.

    Texas Republican hypocrisy over federal aid is nothing new – ask Flyin' Ted Cruz

    Lloyd Green
    After Hurricane Sandy, the senator opposed relief for New York and New Jersey. It’s one rule for Texas, another for the rest of us

December 2018

  • SINGAPORE-ECONOMY<br>People rest along a pond with lillies at Marina Bay Sands promenade in Singapore on September 22, 2016. / AFP / ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Palaces for the People: How to Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg – review

    Why libraries, parks and other endangered public spaces are essential to good city living

June 2018

  • Untitled, Brick Township NJ

    How to hurricane-proof your house – in pictures

    After Hurricane Sandy, homeowners on the devastated shoreline of New Jersey had their houses raised. Photographer Ira Wagner caught the properties at their most precarious

October 2017

  • Tricia Campbell McAvoy looks for mold in the garage of her home in Brick, New Jersey.

    Hurricane Sandy, five years later: 'No one was ready for what happened after'

    Survivors of the 2012 storm remain haunted. As hurricanes continue to batter the US, many say plans to mitigate climate change have not gone far enough: ‘People need to open their eyes’

September 2017

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    A history of hurricanes: how US presidents have responded - video explainer

    George W Bush’s presidency never fully recovered from his botched handling of Hurricane Katrina. Barack Obama won re-election just days after Hurricane Sandy struck. So how can presidents respond effectively to natural disasters? And how has Donald Trump managed the response to Harvey and Irma?

August 2017

  • Rooftop solar at Marcus Garvey Village, Brooklyn, NYC

    Rethinking business
    Brooklyn's social housing microgrid rewrites relationships with utility companies

    Microgrids, promising energy self-reliance for communities, are growing in popularity as they become more affordable

July 2017

  • A tangle of fishing boats block a highway in Empire, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina struck.

    Lloyd's says cyber-attack could cost $120bn, same as Hurricane Katrina

    World’s oldest insurance market warns cost to global economy of cyber-attack could be as much as worst natural disasters

March 2017

  • us canada border

    Canadian church group denied entry to US over fears they would 'steal' jobs

    US border officials were concerned that foreign volunteers would ‘steal American jobs’ in New Jersey, one Ontario church member said

January 2017

  • Manhattan from Rebuild by Design

    Resilient cities
    How a design competition changed the US approach to disaster response

    Nate Berg tells the story of Rebuild By Design, a competition – and now its own organisation – based on taking a more proactive approach to disaster response in cities; but how far can you prepare for the effects of climate change?

November 2016

  • A boy plays in a building destroyed by hurricane Matthew in Coteaux, Haiti.

    Weatherwatch
    Hurricanes become more costly

    Weatherwatch As the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close, the eye-watering cost is becoming ever more apparent

October 2016

  • The devastation left by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as predicted by the Reading weather centre.

    Hurricane coming? You’d better believe it this time

  • A parking lot full of cabs in New Jersey is flooded as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

    Hurricane Sandy-level flooding is rising so sharply that it could become normal

August 2016

  • Katharina Grosse Rockaway!

    Rockaway! A derelict army bathhouse on a New York beach becomes art

    Trashed by Hurricane Sandy and earmarked for demolition, the artist Katharina Grosse gave Fort Tilden a celebratory send-off as a vibrant landmark

January 2016

  • New York City floods Hurricane Sandy lower Manhattan

    New York City to receive $176m in federal funding for storm protection

    Funds from Housing and Urban Development contest will be used to flood-proof lower Manhattan, which was severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy in 2012

November 2015

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Why the Paris attacks got larger UK coverage than other tragedies

    Roy Greenslade
    The all-news-is-local cliché cannot be overlooked... along with a shared culture
  • chris christie

    From Sandy to Bridgegate: the peaks and pits of Chris Christie's career

    The Guardian looks back on the career-defining events that led the New Jersey governor from presidential prospect to the Republican ‘kids’ table’
  • Hurricane Sandy churns off the US east coast on October 28, 2012. Sandy struck during what some claim is a "hurricane drought".

    Climate Consensus - the 97%
    Arbitrary focus on hurricane wind speed has birthed a new climate myth

    John Abraham: Claims of a ‘hurricane drought’ are based on an arbitrary focus on wind speed while ignoring storm pressure, power, and damage
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