When Hurricane Sandy's storm surge hit the seaside neighborhood of Breezy Point, New York City police officer and ... of first responders who kept the flood from becoming a slaughter.

The top threats to the widespread health and safety of New Yorkers over the next 100 years are coastal squalls, infectious ...

Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s ...

A new report by the public-private partnership Rebuild by Design says Cape May and Atlantic counties have the most property vulnerable to flood damage in the next 25 years. The report projects 70% of ...

Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent undertakings, an enormous, man-made concrete canal full of water. It was recently ...

The Ironbound is already home to a nauseating mix of pollution – and the last thing it needs is a power plant, these local ...

Myrie, as part of his Black Agenda, emphasizes investing in flooding solutions and sewer upgrades in specific flood-prone communities and expanding job training in industries related to clean energy ...

Memorial Day (29 May) saw the opening of phase one of the East River Park redevelopment in New York City, with the newly ...

Millions of people living in the Plains and along the East Coast are again at risk of severe weather and flooding on Tuesday, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A significant weather system will bring heavy thunderstorms to New York City on Tuesday, bringing with ...

Now it’s pretty much expected that big storms might result in power outages, but with big storms like Sandy happening more ...

Lots of clouds, mist and drizzle are in place to start the day but will soon be replaced by a round of heavy rain and thunderstorms later this morning, roughly between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m. While the ...