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The proposal for 12 movable sea barriers across waterways like Jamaica Bay replaces a disputed plan for a single, larger outer-harbor wall.

Climate-resilient public transportation is crucial to meeting our climate goals and ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities.

Climate-resilient public transportation is crucial to meeting our climate goals and ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities.

These projects will take center stage in the Adams administration.

If he expects flooding, he rolls up the downstairs rugs and takes his valuables upstairs. “That’s just life in Broad Channel,” he said. “If you want to live close to water, you just pay attention.” The extra attention is worth it to Riepe, who serves as the Jamaica Bay guardian for the American Littoral Society, a marine conservation group. He loves to take his boat out on the water, surrounded by the marsh with the city skyline visible on clear days. When he rebuilt his house after ...

“Sometimes I wish I could move to another state where there’s no water around,” she said. The water is a constant, creeping threat in Atlantic City, where the sea level rise has caused an increase in sunny day flooding. These days, it only takes a particularly high tide, which reaches more than a foot higher than it did a century ago, for water to spill onto the city’s streets. As many as 1,640 affordable housing units in New Jersey are vulnerable to coastal flooding at least once per...