The skyline of New York City, looking south at dusk. Source : . Wikimedia Commons. Image credit: Dschwen, English Wikipedia, GFDL ( or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons. Page/s ...

Unlike the United States' extreme temperature places, which are dominated by where you sit on a map, the extreme precipitation places tend to be dominated by what features are near you. We'll explore the driest and wettest places in the United States.

A report of the Sustainable Urban Coasts in the Urban Northeast workshop, hosted in October 2014 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, was published online by Local Environment. ...

The PVT Land Company (left) is O'ahu's only landfill for construction-site waste. The site receives more than 200 truckloads of construction debris per day. The company upgraded their stormwater drain ...

Summary: O'ahu's busy construction industry depends on being able to dispose of demolition and construction wastes. Forecasts for a developing La Niña—often accompanied by heavy rains in Hawai'i—alerted managers at the island's main construction landfill to their climate vulnerability.

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Hurricane Matthew tore a path through the Caribbean and southeastern United States leaving behind a trail of destruction. 

Majuro Water & Sewer Company, Inc., provides water and sewer services to the residents of Majuro Atoll, the capitol and largest urban center in the Marshall Islands. Photo by Majuro Water & Sewer Comp ...

The view northwest from Diamondhead shows that many of the high-rise hotels in Waikīkī are built just a few feet above sea level. Photo by Victoria Keener. Used with permission. Page/s that con ...

Blue shading in this visualization from NOAA's Sea Level Rise Viewer shows areas of Honolulu, Hawai'i, that would be inundated at high tide after six feet of sea level rise. Bright green areas would b ...