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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

Funding was ‘unnecessarily delayed’ by bureaucratic obstacles, after hurricane killed thousands of people in 2017 Buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 2017. The hurricane killed thousands of people. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 2017. The hurricane killed thousands of people. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters CoralMurphyMarcosinSanJuan Thu 22 Apr 2021 12.03 EDT Last modified on Thu 22 Apr 2021 12.17 EDT The efforts to deliver recovery funding to the island were “unnecessarily delayed by bureaucr...

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 vulnerable are hit first and hardest. At a time of rising homelessness in the US and as climate-relate...