New York City Begins Its Climate Change Reckoning on the Lower East Side, the Hard Way – Inside Climate News
![The new waterfront esplanade proposed for the Financial District in Lower Manhattan modeled during normal weather conditions and coastal storm conditions (from the Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan by the Mayor's Office of Climate Resiliency and NYCEDC via nyc.gov).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-19-at-10.18.31-PM-798x219.png)
The city redesigned much of a $1.5 billion floodwall project along the East River without any community input, shattering trust. Now, New York is pursuing similar climate resiliency projects in Manhattan that Mayor Eric Adams calls “complex, novel and unparalleled compared to any other American city…”
The Red Sea Could be a Climate Refuge for Coral Reefs – Inside Climate News
![A flat fan at Elphinstone Reef, Red Sea, Egypt (by Derek Keats CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/6192284961_fb949b812e_c-798x599.jpg)
When Lina Challita dives along Egypt’s coast, she doesn’t just see a colorful array of corals and fish. She sees hope. Against the grim backdrop of climate models that project most coral reefs dying by the end of this century in overheating oceans, the northern end of the Red Sea may end up being one of the last places on Earth where those critical ocean ecosystems can survive, at least at least for a while, and perhaps longer if countries of the world manage to cap global warming and stabilize the climate…