If you were listening to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's press briefing Tuesday (Oct. 30) as New York City began to tally the damage from Hurricane Sandy, you may have been surprised by what you heard.

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Hurricane Sandy has rekindled a debate about the causes and consequences of climate change. Michael A. Levi, CFR’s David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, highlights three ...

Scientific American on why Sandy's bigger because of climate change Yes, Sandy would have happened without climate change, but it was stronger and more damaging because of global warming. "Hurricane ...

WASHINGTON - Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Eight months earlier, the Princeton ...

As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the New York City area in 2012, its storm surge swamped lower Manhattan, unmoored a roller coaster on the Jersey Shore, submerged runways at LaGuardia Airport and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, destroying homes, impacting livelihoods and claiming lives. Such a storm happens every hundred years or so, National Oceanic and ...

There are still a few Lance Armstrong deniers who don’t accept the overwhelming evidence that he used performance-enhancing drugs. And even rational people can’t say for sure that doping was the ...

On this thirteenth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, climate inaction is driving up our utility costs while putting New Jersey in an even worse position than in 2012, when Sandy damaged or destroyed ...