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Image of Hurricane Sandy via NASA. Congress has finally passed a long-awaited supplemental appropriations bill to bring relief to those affected by Superstorm Sandy and to promote ...

Adam Whelchel is Director of Science for The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut. On the Tuesday as Hurricane Sandy was sweeping inland far south in New Jersey, I spent an emotional ...

During Hurricane Sandy the seas rose a record 14-feet in lower Manhattan. Water flooded city streets, subways, tunnels and even sewage treatment plants. It is unclear how much sewage ...

Sandy instantly brought a new kind of national media attention to the influence of global warming on weather disasters. After several years of near-silence on climate from our political ...

     (Updated 10:18am, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012)   Before Hurricane Sandy, scientists at The Earth Institute were at the forefront of studying the dangers posed by such storms, especially ...

Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast this week and due to its unusual West-turning track, it came ashore midway in the eastern “Megalopolis” with its 65 million people.  Virginia ...

Satellite image of Hurricane Sandy off the shores of Florida and an approaching cold front across the Midwest. (NASA GOES, 10-25-2012)As Hurricane Sandy barrels up the East Coast, forecasters ...

In today’s green news, there’s an App for that, and the drones are watching… Want to help the world’s oceans? There’s an App for that! (Huffington Post) Drones: ...

Story and photos by Jared Serigné. The Delacroix Island where my grandfather was raised will never exist again. I’m okay with that. I’ve come to terms with it. I love Delacroix ...

As the pool closes and we start getting ready for another school year, my spirits are sagging. At first I thought it was just feeling wistful that another summer is coming to an end. ...

In today’s green news, we talk mpgs, the Chesapeake Bay and Arctic sea ice. Exciting news in vehicle fuel-efficiency standards (is that an oxymoron?): Cars must average 54.5 ...

Now this is serious: Climate change vs. the Easter Bunny The 2012 hurricane forecast is out. How many major storms should we expect? (Discovery) Bad news: Climate change is taking ...

The following is a guest post written by Adam Whelchel, Ph.D., director of science for The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut. Adam is leading the Conservancy’s Coastal Resilience ...

A group of Yale economists have produced a sobering paper about the effect of climate change on hurricane damage in the United States.  What makes the report especially notable is ...

Flood damage in Bethel, VT after Irene (Flickr/US FWS) The 2011 hurricane season may well be remembered most for flooding along the eastern seaboard, especially from Hurricane Irene ...