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Alabama’s Gulf Coast ready for spring breakers Coastal communities rebounding after Hurricane Sally Alabama Gulf Coast 6 months after Hurricane Sally By Sally Pitts | March 5, 2021 at 5:42 AM CST - Updated March 5 at 8:53 PM Gulf Shores, Ala. (WSFA) - March 16th marks six months since Hurricane Sally slammed into Alabama’s Gulf Coast. The strong category 2 storm caused significant flooding and wind damage. While Sally slowly crawled across Alabama, the recovery after the storm was swift for most of Alabama’s coastal communities. Less than six months after the storm, the ma...

Integrating nature with technology to strengthen climate adaptation In The News 26 Feb 2021 The European Commission released the new EU Climate Adaptation Strategy on 24 February, 2021. During the strategy’s introduction, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, highlighted the need to make adaptation smarter using data, as well as more systemic by focusing on local communities and ecosystems, and leveraging nature-based solutions (NbS). According to the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy: “Climate change is happening today, so we have to build a mor...

In The News 18 Feb 2021 Start Park, a project led by citizens from Florence, Italy, has won “Most advanced idea” at the global Climathon Awards 2020. The prize rewards the team that has improved the most since taking part in a previous Climathon: a city-based 24-hour ideathon organised by EIT Climate-KIC, where citizens are invited to brainstorm solutions to lessen the impact of the extreme weather events their city is already facing or will have to face in the near future. Born out of Climathon 2017 in Florence, Start Park aims to broaden the role of environmental architect...