Project
Hazard NYC
This project highlights the different ways climate change and extreme weather will impact hazardous...
Newtown Creek is one of the country’s most polluted waterways. Flooding from sea level rise and storms threatens to spread the creek’s contamination and bring pollution from outside the water into it. The feds are figuring out how to include climate change in the clean-up plan they’re developing.
As one scientist puts it, “We cannot accept that there are regions of our city that are so contaminated that we would say, ‘I wouldn’t want to touch it.’ Because guess what? It comes for you. That’s the reality of climate change and our coastal waterways.”
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