COVID-19 Air Quality Report
<p>Coinciding with the 50th anniversary ofEarth Day, this report investigates the impact COVID-19 lockdowns have had on global particulate pollution levels.As lockdowns were implemented in response to
New York
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In Parks and on Streets, a Toll of Thousands of Trees
While New York City may have dodged a bullet from Tropical Storm Irene, its trees did not. From shade trees on side streets in Elmhurst, Queens, to towering tulip trees in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, many
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New USGS Report Clouds the Future of Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation
The U.S. Geological Survey has just issued a new report on the amount of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation, and the findings add to the growing uncertainty over just how profitable new gas wells
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Hurricane Cost Seen as Ranking Among Top Ten
Hurricane Irene will most likely prove to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in the nation’s history, and analysts said that much of the damage might not be covered by insurance because it was caused
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Vermont, New Jersey Flooded As Irene Spares NYC
New Jersey and Vermont struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane Irene slammed an already soaked U.S. Northeast with torrential rain, dragging away homes and submerging
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After Irene: New Jersey and Vermont experience worst flooding
New Jersey and Vermont struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane Irene slammed an already soaked U.S. Northeast with torrential rain, dragging away homes and submerging
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Storm’s Push North Leaves Punishing Inland Floods
While most eyes warily watched the shoreline during Hurricane Irene’s grinding ride up the East Coast, it was inland — sometimes hundreds of miles inland — where the most serious damage actually occurred.
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Tally of Damages Put at $12 Billion, but That Number Could Yet Rise
The economic damage wrought by Hurricane Irene—everything from washed-out roads to lost hotel bookings—could hit $12 billion or more. That's the initial assessment of economists and insurance-industry
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Storm Damage Largely Spares New York
Tropical Storm Irene swept through the desolate streets of New York on Sunday, flooding low-lying areas and leaving millions of homes without power along the Eastern Seaboard as it continued on to New
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Down Atlantic, a Refrain: It Could Have Been Worse
— As Tropical Storm Irene drenched New York and New England on Sunday, the states where the hurricane first made landfall faced a sun-drenched — yet often powerless — day to assess loss of life, property
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Hurricane Lost Steam as Experts Misjudged Structure and Next Move
It began as something far off and dangerous — a monster storm, a Category 3 hurricane that packed winds of 115 miles an hour as it buzz-sawed through the Caribbean last week, causing more than a billion