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Hurricane Sandy

Books
A new novel imagines a partially submerged New York City in the year 2140
A young girl runs on the rocks under the skyline of lower Manhattan in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The South Street Seaport area, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, saw some of the worst flooding during Superstorm Sandy.
Environment
Are US cities prepared for a post-Hurricane Sandy future?
Dutch ecologist and dike designer Mindert de Vries stands on top of one of the new "soft" dikes being built near the Rhine River delta city of Dordrecht. Dutch innovations in flood control are helping reduce the adverse effects of older dike technologies.
Environment
With the waters rising, the Dutch find eco-friendly ways to keep them at bay
Sonia Guinansaca and Susana Garcia of the activist group CultureStrike will be carrying these images of crops and animals threatened by climate change in Sunday’s People’s Climate March in New York City.
Environment
When environmental activists march in New York, look for immigrants at the head of the parade
Post-Sandy rebuilding in New Jersey
Environment
In post-Sandy New York, a Dutch architect pushes oysters, islands and inlets to fight future floods
Brooklyn-based piano player Richard Bennett.
Arts, Culture & Media
A raga man plays the Hurricane Sandy blues
Environment
In Sandy’s wake, Scientists Explore Links Between Warming Arctic and Extreme Weather