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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

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As if in an instant, the sky grew “black,” Domer said – darker than she’d ever seen it. The derecho hit with a fury, winds whipping up sand and snapping limbs overhead. Domer rushed for cover, pulling a tent canopy over her head. All around her, branches and whole trees crashed to the ground. “I kept thinking, ‘When is it going to stop?’” Domer said. She said a prayer that she would live. It’s an immutable truth of the climate crisis that the most vu...