Feb 14
If a catastrophic event cut off the food supply to New York, odds are you’d have to do without you triple vegan chia slaw and assorted trend vegetables. But would you go hungry?
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Jan 03
A monster of a winter storm ruined a lot of people’s Fridays this week with brutally cold temperatures and buckets of snow. This image, taken by NASA on Thursday, reveals that the storm indeed looks like a yeti crawling drunkenly out of the Atlantic in an effort to devour Omaha.
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Jan 02
A bridge that deploys huge inflatable buoys to slow storm surges. A barrier reef grown from minerals harvested by electrical currents. An artificial island protecting the most surge-prone neighborhoods. Most of us are bracing for a blizzard this week, but the winners of a recent design competition, Stormproof, are imagining how to protect cities for the next summer storm season.
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Oct 12
A huge storm, cyclone Phailin (pronounced: phie-lin), is approaching the states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on the eastern coast of India and will probably also cause heavy rain in neighboring states. Indian authorities evacuated half a million people over the past few days as predictions about the storm grew more dire.
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Oct 07
All day we’ve been hearing about some terrible storms, and wind, and tornados that are coming for us New Yorkers. But thanks to the folks at EarthCam, we can watch the this horrifying weather come straight at us live from a webcam mounted on the Statue of Liberty. It’s getting dark over our office. Oh my god is the world about to end?
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Aug 12
In June, Mayor Bloomberg presented a 438-page proposal that laid out hundreds of ways in which New York needs to adapt to survive storms like Sandy, which hit the city almost a year ago. Some of his recommendations were sensible, others were intriguing. Most of them seeemed like long-term investments. But the city is actually already moving on several significant infrastructure upgrades—and they’re poised to change the face of NYC forever.
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Apr 15
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a lot of things: a testament to humankind’s love of building humungous stuff for the hell of it. It’s very shiny! And in a bad storm, it sounds like it’s about to fall apart. More »
Feb 09
Winter storm Nemo’s triumphant entrance has come and gone by this point, and there’s no shortage of documentation to show for it. After all, any aspiring snowpocalypse worth its (road) salt inspires an army of time timelapses that speed the storm’s once fluttering bounty into a straight-up dump. Here are a couple of the better ones. More »
Feb 08
With up to two feet of snow expected to dump itself on the east coast today, how prepared are you for snowmaggedon? More »
Feb 07
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know there’s a big ol’ Nor’Easter about to tackle the East coast. If you have been living under a rock, you might be about to freeze to death under it. More »
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