Washington Floods Expose a Double Threat: Old Drains and Climate Change. (The New York Times, 7/9/2019)
The rainfall overwhelmed the capital’s storm-water system, much of it built almost a century ago to handle a smaller population, far less pavement and not nearly as much water.
“We’re still approaching this 21st-century problem with 20th-century infrastructure, and it’s completely inadequate,” said Constantine Samaras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. “And it’s only going to get worse.”
Updating that infrastructure will be enormously expensive, experts warn, not just in Washington but around the country. That’s not only because upgrades are required. In many cases, cities are facing huge backlogs in general maintenance.
Previous climate change as a matter of fact posts:
Africa
Cape Town, South Africa. (1/31/2018)
Kenya. (7/23/2017)
Asia
Disappearing glaciers of the Himalayas. (6/21/2019)
No groundwater for 100,000,000 people in India? That sounds like 'unlivable' to me. (6/21/2019)
Kazakhstan: The melting of Tuyuksu glacier. (1/21/2019)
Record heat in Japan raises concerns over 2020 Olympics. (7/23/2018)
Lebanon's cedar trees. (7/19/2018)
Rising seas + draining underground aquifers = Jakarta disaster. (12/22/2017)
Australia and the Pacific
Dying coral of the Great Barrier Reef. (4/22/2018)
Easter Island. (3/18/2018)
Green sea turtles of the Great Barrier Reef. (1/11/2018)
Kiribati. (7/6/2016)
Europe
Italy's olive groves. (3/11/2019)
Rising seas threaten Scottish heritage. (9/29/2018)
Norway, Finland, and Sweden. (7/19/2018)
Portugal. (6/19/2017)
The Netherlands. (6/19/2017)
North America
In the newsrooms of Florida's newspapers. (7/10/2019)
The Point in Newport, Rhode Island. (7/10/2019)
Expect more fish die-offs in Wisconsin lakes. (7/9/2019)
Still on the front lines in Miami. (6/26/2019)
Great Marsh, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. (6/4/2019)
Alaska: Iditarod sled dog race. (3/3/2019)
Greenland's rapidly melting ice. (1/22/2019)
Insect apocalypse: Monarch butterfly. (12/10/2018)
Hot nights in the U.S. (9/6/2018)
Hampton Roads, Virginia. (8/19/2018)
Front-page news at Des Moines Register. (8/12/2018)
Miami, again. (6/14/2018)
May 2018 record heat in U.S. (6/9/2018)
Melting outdoor ice rinks in Canada. (3/21/2018)
Gulf of Maine. (3/8/2018)
Jean Lafitte, Louisiana. (2/26/2018)
Lodi, Wisconsin. (2/3/2018)
Maine shrimp season. (12/27/2017)
California fires. (12/8/2017)
Wisconsin. (11/16/2017)
Hampton Roads, Virginia. (11/4/2017)
Georgia peach orchards. (9/18/2017)
Northeast U.S. pine forests. (8/29/2017)
Tangier Island, Virginia. (8/25/2017)
South of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. (8/25/2017)
New Orleans. (8/12/2017)
Mexico City. (2/19/2017)
Kansas. (1/29/2017)
Moose of Maine. (1/21/2017)
Florida Keys. (1/14/2017)
California wine country. (1/11/2017)
Kaktovik, Alaska. (12/20/2016)
Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park. (7/7/2016)
Polar regions
Unprecedented ice melt in Greenland and the Arctic so far this June. (6/15/2019)
Disappearing old ice in Arctic. (6/4/2018)
North Pole. (2/28/2018)
Beavers migrate to Arctic. (12/24 /2017)
Shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. (12/14/2017)
Emaciated polar bear. (12/9/2017)
South America
Galapagos Islands. (12/19/2018)
Peru. (11/26/2017)
Brazil. (6/8/2017)
Bolivia. (7/11/2016)
Peru, (5/21/2016)
U.S. Military
Military prepares for reality of climate change, rising seas. (8/11/2018)
U.S. military bases around the world. (1/8/2018)
U.S. Department of Defense. (12/16/2017)
U.S. military bases. (9/22/2017)
Worldwide
Business leaders acknowledge bottom line risks and costs of climate change. (6/5/2019)
Ocean heat hits record high. (3/30/2019)
Not just a wake-up call anymore. (8/10/2018)
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