coastal flooding
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Columbia Climate School Students Take On Coastal Flooding at a U.N. Conference
At the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Summit, a team of postgrad and current students worked through the night on a multimedia presentation of hazard predictions and proposed solutions.
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How to Prepare for a Stormy “Supercharged” September
As storms and disasters become less predictable and more extreme, it’s important to understand the risks where you live and have emergency plans in place.
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Multiform Floods: A Growing Climate Threat
When different types of floods occur in close succession or simultaneously, the challenges to communities can be immense.
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You Can’t Run From Climate Change, but That’s Not a Bad Thing
An intergenerational conversation about living with climate change and its impacts.
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How to Prevent a Flood Disaster: Using Law and Policy to Systematically Reduce Risk
Experts brainstormed legal ways to adapt to sea level rise at Columbia Climate School’s Managed Retreat conference.
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10 Climate Change Impacts That Will Affect Us All
And how to protect yourself from them.
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The Tribe That Brought a Damaged Shoreline Back to Life
How the Shinnecock Indian Nation Tribe in Long Island, NY, transformed a desolate and barren stretch of shoreline to protect their land from erosion and sea-level rise
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When Is a Sea Wall a Good Idea?
Scientists at Columbia’s Earth Institute are using simulations to test how well different methods protect coastal areas from hurricanes and sea level rise.
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What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Sea Level Rise
Polar scientists Marco Tedesco and Robin Bell provide a primer on how climate change will impact our coastlines.

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